antibiotics

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a dangerous opportunistic pathogen. One of the most negative clinically significant features of P. aeruginosa is associated with the rapid acquisition of antimicrobial resistance. This review provides an analysis of current …

Self-treatment with antibiotics and their OTC-dispensing is one of the major problems associated with the inappropriate use of antibiotics. The study was aimed to identify the features of the behavior of patients and pharmacists in antibiotics’ …

Currently, from 15 to 50% of the population in the developed countries has obesity. Overall, patients with obesity have a higher risk of infection; they are more likely to develop infectious complications after surgical interventions and have a …

Objective. To discover the prevalence and types of medication errors associated with the use of cephalosporins through analysis of national spontaneous reporting database. Materials and Methods. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 2324 spontaneous reports concerning adverse drug reactions associated with the cephalosporins. All the reports were submitted to the Russian pharmacovigilance database between 01.01.2012 and 01.08.2014. Approved prescribing drug information, standards of medical care and practical guidelines for certain conditions were used to identify medication errors associated with specific products.

Antimicrobial use in food animal medicine has become an important political and scientific issue, especially in relation to the contribution that animal sourced antimicrobial resistance might play in human medicine, leading to calls at a political …

The study of the prevalence of ESBL CTX-M type of nosocomial strains of Enterobacteriaceae was perfomed. CTX-M enzymes have been identified in all ESBLproducing strains of Enterobacteriaceae. Identified β-lactamases belonged to the four genetic …

There are many antibiotics from various chemical classes available in drug armamentarium for the treatment of community-acquired infections at out-patient basis. In such cases safety and tolerability of administered treatment is of no less importance …

Generic drugs account for 78 to 95% of drug products on the Russian pharmaceutical market and represent a common way of decreasing treatment cost. The main problem of generic drugs is a pharmaceutical quality and comparability between generic and …

The aim of study was to identify patterns of perioperative use of antimicrobials in patients undergo, ing hysterectomy and to study surgical site infection (SSI) rates in this category of patients. The medical records of 600 women who underwent …

Febrile neutropenia is becoming significant problem in Russian medical institutions. Changes in spectrum of causative pathogens, increase of the number of neutropenic patients and emergence of antimicrobial resistance – all the above factors require …