In the antibiotics group, 40% had surgery to remove their appendix by 1 year, which rose to 46% by year 2, reported David Flum, MD, MPH, of the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues.

Infectious disease scientists identified strains of group A streptococcus that are less susceptible to commonly used antibiotics, a sign that the germ causing strep throat and flesh-eating disease may ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients in the prolonged antibiotic and non-prolonged groups had recurrent PJI rates of about 13%. The ...

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In patients with recurrent cellulitis, penicillin prevented subsequent attacks during prophylaxis, but the effect diminished progressively after the antibiotic was stopped, according to a double-blind ...

From strep throat to urinary tract infections (UTIs), we've all benefited from the modern medical marvel of antibiotics. But ...

SINCE Wannamaker and his colleagues 1 and Bernstein et al. 2 demonstrated that daily oral administration of penicillin for ten days will successfully control epidemics of disease due to Group A ...

Hoberman et al, from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburg, PA, randomly assigned 291 children between 6 months and 23 months of age, diagnosed with ...