Recent years have seen substantial improvements in life expectancy and access to
antimicrobials, especially in low-income and lower-middle-income countries, but increasing …

Antibiotics have been used as medical remedies for over 50 years and have recently
emerged as new pollutants in the environment. This review encompasses the fate of several …

A standardised methodology for a combined point prevalence survey (PPS) on healthcare-
associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals …

Background There are no reliable data on antibiotic use in non-European Union (EU)
southern and eastern European countries and newly independent states. We aimed to …

Objective: For patients in intensive care units, sepsis is a common and potentially deadly
complication and prompt initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy improves prognosis …

International and local surveillance networks as well as numerous reports in the biomedical
literature provide evidence that the prevalence of antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria …

Antibiotics have dramatically changed the prognoses of patients with severe infectious
diseases over the past 50 years. However, the emergence and dissemination of resistant …

Our study confronts the use of antimicrobial agents in ambulatory care with the resistance
trends of 2 major pathogens, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Escherichia coli, in 21 …

Coagulation–flocculation and flotation processes were evaluated for the pre-treatment of
hospital wastewater, including the removal of 13 pharmaceutical and personal care products …

Los antimicrobianos son fármacos distintos al resto. Su eficacia en la reducción de la
morbilidad y la mortalidad es muy superior a la de otros grupos de medicamentos. Por otra …