12 Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Introduction Ventilator-associated ...

Antibiotics can be used to treat a litany of illnesses, but one thing they can’t combat is a viral infection. “Researchers and physicians have started to recognize that a lot of mild pneumonia in ...

Bacterial pneumonia is most commonly caused by a bacteria called Streptococcus pneumoniae which accounts for around 50% of cases. Other common causes include Haemophilus influenzae, Chlamydia ...

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Norway found that the use of rapid molecular testing in the emergency department (ED) resulted in more targeted antibiotic treatment for pneumonia, researchers ...

The treatment of hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia has traditionally been with intravenous antibiotics. The administration of intravenous antibiotics for community-acquired ...

Have a cold? Fever? Sinus infection? Your primary-care provider might not give you a prescription for an antibiotic. Here's ...

Mo Yin. More information: Yiying Cai et al, Cost-effectiveness of a short-course antibiotic treatment strategy for the treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia: an economic analysis of the ...

Make your antibiotic medication as effective as possible by getting these answers before you leave the doctor's office or ...

and Duke-NUS Medical School have provided compelling evidence that short-course antibiotic treatments can be a game-changer in tackling ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), a serious infection ...

Bacterial and viral pneumonia can sometimes be differentiated by the types of symptoms they cause. By way of example: Bacterial pneumonia is treated with antibiotic drugs, most often Amoxil ...

"Right now lots of people are coming to the hospital with respiratory tract infections and we don't know whether it's viral ...

usually necessitates a more prolonged course of intravenous antibiotics as compared to pneumonia caused by the less virulent and more antibiotic sensitive Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Antibiotic ...