Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 438-444, December 2001

The rational use of antibiotics in bacterial infection

  • N.J. McLellan (Consultant Paediatrician)

      Affiliations

    • Department of General Medicine, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, B4 6NH, UK
    • ,
  • J. Gray (Consultant in Medical Microbiology)

      Affiliations

    • Department of Microbiology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Birmingham, B4 6NH, UK

Abstract 

Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed and misused drugs in paediatrics. Their clinical use inevitably drives the evolution of bacterial resistance. This has set new challenges to their rational use, the essence of which is to try to minimize the emergence and spread of resistance whilst achieving the best possible clinical response. Judicious antibiotic use will also reduce side-effects and cost.

Keywords: antibiotics, resistance, prescribing, strategies, judicious use

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  • f1 Correspondence to: NJM.

PII: S0957-5839(01)90234-9

doi:10.1054/cupe.2001.0234

Current Paediatrics
Volume 11, Issue 6 , Pages 438-444, December 2001

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