What Is an Antibiogram and Why Should a Nursing Home Use It? A nursing home-specific antibiogram may be an effective and inexpensive tool for improving appropriate antibiotic prescribing. An ...

Thiruvananthapuram: To assess the level of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in Kerala and to coordinate efforts to combat it, the 2023 antibiogram (AMR surveillance report) released by health ...

Kerala has released its antibiogram for the third consecutive year, a reflection of the State’s commitment to strengthen the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which poses a ...

Background: The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria and also biofilm-associated infections is a great health concern due to the failure of available antibiotics. This has alerted scientists to ...

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Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(1):81-96. In summary, for empiric treatment of infections of the CNS following surgery and prophylactic antibiotics for trauma (Table 2) based on consensus ...

Narrow-spectrum antibiotics should be prioritized, but the lack of antibiograms in hospitals forces doctors to prescribe blindly. "Without proper mechanisms to ensure responsible use, even these ...

Instead, say doctors, narrow-spectrum antibiotics should be prioritised. But hospitals often lack antibiograms - microbiology-based antibiotic guidelines - forcing doctors to prescribe "broadly ...