Antibiotic resistance isn’t just a hospital phenomenon; it's found in every environment tested by scientists. Most antibiotics are developed from organisms living in the soil, so it’s no ...

Many clinicians may recall being taught that a 10% cross-reactivity of allergy between penicillin and cephalosporins exists. This information was based upon older studies from 40 years ago or more ...

Cross-sensitivity between neomycin and bacitracin is very common despite being chemically unrelated (see Figures 1 & 2) (Marks et al., 2002; Scheman et al., 2008).

For their meta-analysis, presented here at the European Respiratory Society International Congress 2016, Dr Ahmadizar and her colleagues examined cohort, case–control, and cross-sectional ...

Hundreds of patients who thought they were allergic to penicillin, perhaps from a childhood experience, are given the all-clear thanks to doctors at Victoria's first antibiotic allergy testing centre.