antibiotics

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 …

Translated and reprinted with permission from «International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents» 2001;17:9-19.

Antimicrobial use is the major determinant in the development of resistance. Many parameters of importance for optimal quality of …