Why is the world suffering from a penicillin shortage?
2017年5月21日 · For the past 16 years, the resident of Cape Town, South Africa, has gone to a local clinic once a month to receive an injection of penicillin, the only drug that can prevent further damage to...
Penicillin shortages as pharma companies eye newer, more …
2017年5月25日 · In South Africa, when benzathine penicillin G ran short in 2015, some doctors resorted to prescribing the medicine azithromycin to patients with rheumatic heart disease instead. But when clinicians are forced to give substitute therapies to patients, they could be fuelling antibiotic resistance.
Low self-reported penicillin allergy in South Africa—implications …
2023年2月21日 · We aimed to describe the epidemiology and delabelling outcomes of self-reported PA in South African (SA) inpatients. We conducted point prevalence surveys between April 2019 and June 2021 at seven hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa.
Prescribing, care and resistance: antibiotic use in urban South Africa
2020年9月1日 · Antimicrobial stewardship—measures to prevent the misuse and overuse of drugs to deter resistance—came into professional focus in South Africa with the establishment of the Federation of ...
Antibiotic class containing a beta-‐lactam ring that inhibits bacterial cell wall synthesis. Includes penicillins, cephalosporins and carbapenems . A clinical prediction rule for mortality in community-‐acquired pneumonia. The score is an acronym for individual risk factors as follows: .
Antibiotic consumption in the public sector of the Limpopo …
2022年10月25日 · Penicillins (2.3 ± 0.8; 50.0%), sulphonamide and trimethoprim combinations (1.4 ± 0.3 DID; 30.4%) were the most consumed antibiotics. Macrolides had the highest relative increase in consumption during the study period, with a CAGR of 18.5%. In contrast, tetracyclines had the highest relative decrease in consumption, with a CAGR of 100.0%.
South Africa’s antibiotic use in 2018 was 17.9 Defined Daily Doses (DDDs) per 1000/population per day, on par with other BRICS2 countries and not as high as some other African countries. There has been a 50% annual growth in antibiotic use between 2020 to 2022, driven mainly by the private sector at 64% over this time.
Penicillin shortages as pharma companies eye newer, more …
2017年5月25日 · South Africa is just one of at least 18 countries, including the United States, France and Brazil, that have faced benzathine penicillin G shortages over the past three years, according to...
Low self-reported penicillin allergy in South Africa—implications …
2023年2月21日 · We aimed to describe the epidemiology and delabelling outcomes of self-reported PA in South African (SA) inpatients. We conducted point prevalence surveys between April 2019 and June 2021 at seven hospitals in Cape Town, South Africa.
Low self-reported penicillin allergy in South Africa ... - PubMed
2023年2月21日 · Inpatient self-reported PA was lower in South Africa hospitals compared with other upper-middle-income countries, and the majority of patients carried a low-risk PA label. Linkage for delabelling with the allergy clinic was very poor, and thus strategies to improve access and delivery of delabelling …
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