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Aetiology on Antibiotic Resistance

Posted on January 17, 2008

Over at Aetiology, Tara C. Smith shares her opinions on a recent study about antibiotic resistance. Here s a bit:The current paradigm for antibiotic use is to prescribe relatively high doses of drugs for a few days to a few weeks (or months, in the case of tuberculosis), and patients are cautioned to stay on them until all the doses are finished. However, the new study RPM describes suggests this may be doing more harm than good, looking at what happens with Plasmodium species treated with antimalarials in a mouse model This study doesn't take those into account, which is a limitation--...

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