Method promotes individualised approach to post-operative antimicrobial therapy and improves antibiotic stewardship.

Novel, broad-spectrum antibiotics are needed for improved treatment of ABSSSIs.

Efforts to prevent deaths and disabilities due to sepsis are being hampered by serious gaps in knowledge, report says.

Identification of predictive factors can help guide patient management.

Previously, data were limited on the effectiveness of this therapy against recurrence.

Understanding the relationship between combinations of natural products and antimicrobial activity may generate a novel way to create new antibiotics from botanicals

The world is running out of effective treatments for common conditions.

Prior studies have shown conflicting evidence.

Series of recommendations on diagnosis and management are available free.

Given serious and potentially deadly risks, identification of risk factors is crucial.

European Medicines Agency has approved treatments for aerobic Gram-negative organisms and complicated skin and intra-abdominal infections.

Topical hydrogen peroxide is recommended for localised non-bullous impetigo.

The draft decision is open for public comment until Friday, 7 February 2020

The Scottish One Health Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance report for 2018.