Outbreak News Today What I'm talking about today is CRE, carbapenem -resistant enterobacteriaceae. CRE are nightmare bacteria. They pose a triple threat. First, they're...
NPR (blog) CRE bacteria are resistant to almost all antibiotics, including carbapenems , which doctors often deploy as a last resort. The remaining treatments are often...
Healio Treatment with piperacillin-tazobactam appears inferior to carbapenems for treatment of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase bacteria in the blood, according to data published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Medscape In the age of increasingly resistant organisms and the need for broad-spectrum empiric coverage, prescribers often turn to the class of carbapenem antibiotics (eg, imipenem/cilastatin, ertapenem, meropenem). The spectrum of carbapenem antibiotics ... 更多 »
