Amoxicillin

Amoxicillin/clavulanate plus prednisolone in severe alcoholic hepatitis do not improve survival at 2 months, according to a presentation at the International Liver Congress.

Amoxicillin, an oral semisynthetic penicillin, is the most common antibiotic associated with childhood medication allergies.

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Patients with aortic dissection or aneurysm prescribed fluroquinolones had elevated risk for adverse outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

A 5-day course of antibiotics was just as effective as the standard 10-day course in treating community-associated pneumonia in nonhospitalized children, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Outpatient diverticulitis treatment with amoxicillin-clavulanate was “just as effective” as treatment with a combination of metronidazole and a fluoroquinolone, a researcher told Healio Primary Care.

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A previously healthy 5-year-old female presented for evaluation after 3 weeks of intermittent fever and worsening cough. The history of this illness began 23 days earlier.

According to findings published in JAMA Network Open, the combination of azithromycin and QT-prolonging drugs was associated with a 40% increase in cardiac events compared with amoxicillin and QT-prolonging drugs.

The results of two studies published today in The New England Journal of Medicine that challenged WHO treatment recommendations for children with nonsevere pneumonia were “insufficient to change current clinical practice,” experts said.