The New Antibiotic Mantra—“Shorter Is Better”

A report by Uranga, et al. of a randomized trial of 312  patients with pneumonia  published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine,  has found that continuing  antibiotics more than 5 days gives no additional benefit if the patient is stable and has been afebrile for 48 hours.  Neither the word “evolution” nor the phrase “natural selection” appear in […]

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