Senior Clinical Pharmacy Specialist in Infectious Diseases, Department of Pharmacy, Albany Medical Center Hospital, Albany, New York The safety of a penicillin in a cephalosporin-allergic patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . I routinely see prescribers avoid prescribing cephalosporin antibiotics for patients with a penicillin allergy.

August 10, 2012 — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends oral cephalosporin treatment for gonococcal infections, according to their updated guidelines, reported ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 49 of 50 patients with penicillin allergy tolerated 76 of 77 doses of cephalosporins. 70% of reactions were low ...

After removal of the warning, cephalosporin use increased from 17.9% to 27.0% at the intervention site. Removal of the default warning in the electronic health record (EHR) urging the avoidance of ...

Oral cefixime yielded similar rates of treatment success for early syphilis when compared with penicillin, according to preliminary results of a small randomized trial. At 3 or 6 months post-treatment ...

Robert Burns Woodward is generally considered to be the greatest synthetic organic chemist of the 20th century. From the 1940s to the 1970s, he led the syntheses of numerous natural products and ...

ZEVTERA is the first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved cephalosporin indicated to treat Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB), including right-sided endocarditis, caused by the ...