Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are such a pain—literally. Flare-ups are marked by discomfort, pelvic pressure and an ...

While the POC tool aims to provide quicker assessments of bacterial infections to guide immediate treatment decisions, the ID-ST culture solution can significantly reduce the time required for empiric ...

Typically a vaginal cream is applied every night for ... medication as way to prevent recurrent cystitis or UTIs, which is known as antibiotic prophylaxis therapy.

He or she will typically perform a urine culture and prescribe a course of antibiotics to treat the UTI. Once the infection ...

Antibiotic selection, dosing, and route were at the discretion of the treating team. We excluded patients with severe immunosuppression, foci requiring prolonged treatment, single cultures with ...

Traditional UTI diagnostic tests, known as antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST), uses a one-size-fits-all approach to determine which antibiotics are most effective against a specific bacterial ...

Safe antibiotic preparations include mupirocin (Bactroban), Ilotycin, and Silvadene products. Nonprescription medications include Aquaphor ointment, Biafine cream, and petroleum jelly (Scheman et al., ...

An international clinical trial involving Monash researchers – of more than 3600 patients in 74 hospitals – has shown that a traditional long course of antibiotics for bloodstream infection are not ...

The new rapid point-of-care test named FebriDx uses a finger-prick blood sample to determine whether a respiratory infection is bacterial or viral. (Nine) Auto news: Rare high performance car ...

Antibiotic-resistant infections are becoming a growing problem for health care professionals. An ASU researcher has been developing a test for urinary tract infections that could help against the ...