OBJECTIVE: To determine factors that affect caregivers’ decisions about antibiotic use in children in settings where antibiotics are available without prescription. METHODS: In a house-to-house survey, 1200 caregivers in ...

The funeral industry is a potential reservoir of antibiotic resistance. The occurrence, human exposure and health risks of antibiotic resistance in the funeral industry were examined. The funeral industry harbours ...

Antibiotics revolutionized modern medicine and have been an excellent tool to fight infections. However, their overuse and misuse in different human activities such as health care, food production and agriculture has ...

Introduction: There is no consensus on the most appropriate duration of antimicrobial prophylaxis (single or multiple dose) in clean-contaminated maxillofacial surgery. Objective: To determine whether short-term antimicrobial ...

Environmental microbes have harbored the capacity for antibiotic production for millions of years, spanning the evolution of humans and other vertebrates. However, the industrial-scale use of antibiotics in clinical and ...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the influence of antibiotic formulations (tablet/capsule [TC] or United States Pharmacopeia [USP]-grade antibiotics) and vehicles (water [H 2 O] or macrogol + propylene ...

Background: There is a need to evaluate antibiotic use, duration of therapy, and stewardship in low- and middle-income countries to guide the development of appropriate stewardship programs that are global in scope and ...

Aim: To investigate antibiotic prescribing habits reported by Brazilian endodontists in specific clinical situations. Methodology: Brazilian endodontists (n = 13 853) were invited to answer an online questionnaire. The ...

Background: The inappropriate use of antibiotics significantly contributes to the development of antibiotic resistance. There is limited information about the use of antibiotics among parents from rural areas in Peru. This ...