Researchers from the University of Liverpool have worked on a UCL-led study that illustrates efforts to reduce child ...

Azithromycin mass drug administration may promote durable and transmissible resistance, including in populations not directly ...

The primary focus of empiric therapyfor CARTIs relies on coverage of ... of clarithromycinand azithromycin in healthy adult volunteers. 1997;41:1399-1402. Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Objective: To determine whether treatment failures occurred more commonly with azithromycin than with β-lactam antibiotics in children who developed invasive pneumococcal disease within 30 days ...

By the summer of 2004, as many as 40 percent of the strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae could be resistant ... for arguments against unnecessary antibiotic use, said Marc Lipsitch, one of the ...

The sputum contained abundant gram-positive diplococci, and culture yielded Streptococcus pneumoniae; blood cultures were negative. Empirical therapy with 500 mg of azithromycin per day ...

They report in the Journal of the American Medical Association that it's resistant to every antibiotic approved ... it's called the 19-A strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae — strep pneumo for ...

Doctors may prescribe azithromycin, or Z-Pack, to treat strep throat in people allergic to penicillin or other first-line antibiotics. Side effects may include nausea, headaches, and diarrhea.

The overall rate of antibiotic prescriptions rose to 63.5 per 100 Canadians in 2005 from 61.9 in 2004, according to the report. Streptococcus pneumoniae, also called Strep pneumo, is the most ...