‘Sluggish’ Hospital Uptake of Newer Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Infections

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Hospital uptake of newer antibiotics to treat multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria was low over a 5-year period, according to a retrospective cohort study. Fully 41.5% of episodes of difficult-to-treat resistant (DTR) gram-negative infections were treated exclusively with older, generic agents, which were largely ones with suboptimal safety-efficacy profiles, Sameer Kadri, MD, of the National Institutes of […]

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Publish date : 2024-04-19 13:00:00

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