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  2. Antimicrobial stewardship - Wikipedia

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    Survey prescriber knowledge about antibiotics, antifungal or antiviral drugs. Provide targeted education about particular antibiotics, or one specific antimicrobial at a time, as well as empiric treatment for syndromes versus culture directed treatment. Assist in making duration more visible to prescribers. Some institutions use automatic stop ...

  3. Probiotics in children - Wikipedia

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    In a review of six trials related to antibiotic-associated diarrhea in 766 children aged one month to six years, there was an overall reduction in AAD when children were fed probiotics. The reduction, when compared to placebo, was seen to be from 28.5% to 11.9%; in fact, when patients were fed probiotics along with their dose of antibiotics ...

  4. Amoxicillin - Wikipedia

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    Children with acute otitis media who are younger than six months of age are generally treated with amoxicillin or other antibiotics. Although most children with acute otitis media who are older than two years old do not benefit from treatment with amoxicillin or other antibiotics, such treatment may be helpful in children younger than two years old with acute otitis media that is bilateral or ...

  5. Tetracycline - Wikipedia

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    Other side effects include poor tooth development if used by children less than eight years of age, kidney problems, and sunburning easily. [3] Use during pregnancy may harm the baby. [3] It works by inhibiting protein synthesis in bacteria. [3] Tetracycline was patented in 1953 [6] and was approved for prescription use in 1954.

  6. Antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    In 1986, some European countries banned the use of antibiotics because of research they found that linked antibiotic use in livestock and drug resistant bacteria in humans. [11] The European Union regulated in 2006 against antibiotics for growth promotion purposes. [12] It was estimated in 2014 that over 80% of the world's antibiotic use was on ...

  7. β-Lactam antibiotic - Wikipedia

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    β-Lactam antibiotics are indicated for the prevention and treatment of bacterial infections caused by susceptible organisms. At first, β-lactam antibiotics were mainly active only against gram-positive bacteria, yet the recent development of broad-spectrum β-lactam antibiotics active against various gram-negative organisms has increased their usefulness.

  8. Pfizer expects to run out of some antibiotic supply for ...

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    Supply of the pediatric version of the drug, Bicillin L-A, is expected to be exhausted by the end of this quarter, the company said in a letter to the U.S. health regulator dated Monday. Pfizer ...

  9. Timeline of antibiotics - Wikipedia

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    1942 – gramicidin S, the first peptide antibiotic; 1942 – sulfadimidine; 1943 – sulfamerazine; 1944 – streptomycin, the first aminoglycoside [2] 1947 – sulfadiazine; 1948 – chlortetracycline, the first tetracycline; 1949 – chloramphenicol, the first amphenicol [2] 1949 – neomycin; 1950 – oxytetracycline; 1950 – penicillin G ...