Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients were treated with intravenous ertapenem for an average of 13.1 weeks. During a 7-week, posttherapy ...

Switching to oral therapy after an initial course of intravenous antibiotics for infective endocarditis proved as effective as continuing intravenous treatment, with no increase in failure rates and ...

Oral antibiotics may be a safe alternative to receiving prolonged intravenous (IV) antibiotics, according to a recent observational study published in JAMA Network Open. Overall, 14.3% of patients who ...

A new modeling study suggests that when patients who inject opioids continue an antibiotic treatment for infective endocarditis outside of the hospital, they experienced better long-term health ...