(AB010-MD) Clinicians perceived that public desire for antibiotics for acute bronchitis has decreased. Clinicians attributed this to the public developing a better understanding of the nature of ...

Acute bronchitis is one of the most commonly diagnosed diseases in the emergency department and is the cause of more than 10 million doctor visits every year. Most patients are prescribed ...

Antibiotic use is common in modern medicine, but some people have been using antibiotics from natural sources for centuries.

This approach makes available a huge previously untapped source of natural antibiotics, as only about 1% of microorganisms in any environmental sample can be cultured using existing methods.

Yet despite this, research has previously found that 48% of UK GP practices have prescribed antibiotics for a cough or bronchitis. Dr Susan Hopkins, a deputy director at PHE, said: "Antibiotic ...

Doctors usually do not prescribe antibiotics for bronchitis because most cases are caused by a virus (and antibiotics cannot ...

Allicin is a volatile compound that survives for just a few hours. It is a powerful natural antibiotic - about one-fiftieth as powerful as penicillin - and also has anti-fungal and anti-viral ...

Finally, some of the limitations and hallenges of chemical proteomics approaches are discussed. From DOI: 10.1039/C6NP00001K While recent breakthroughs in the discovery of peptide antibiotics and ...

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In the present study, researchers assess how often patients expect antibiotics for conditions like acute diarrhea, cold/flu, sore throat, sinus infections, and bronchitis and compare the ...