Join 2,554 other subscribers
Category Cloud
Abdomen/GIT Allergy AMS strategy Antibiograms Antimicrobial Bloodstream CNS Infections Dentistry General Practice Guidelines Health Pathology NSW HNE LHD Hospital practice Infection prevention Journal paper Microbiology Myths & Misconceptions News Patient information Respiratory Salutary tale SexuallyTxDis Skin/soft tissue Uncategorized Urinary tract infections Weird facts
Top Posts & Pages
- Flucloxacillin is highly effective against Streptococcus pyogenes (group A strep) and related species
- Why do Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria show different antibiotic susceptibility patterns?
- Patient advice: recurrent staphylococcal infection
- Q10 - Remembering antibiotics and their classes
- Is that second course of antibiotics really necessary?
- Wasted spectrum 101 – amoxicillin+clavulanate overuse
- Alternative recommended antibiotics to ceftriaxone by syndrome and bug
- Is it really cellulitis? - differential diagnosis of a red leg
- Cellulitis 101 - importance of routine skin care
- Is it cellulitis? The case of itchy red legs
AMS resources
AIMED
02 4014 3695
AIMED - Let's talk about antibiotics 
With respect to your last paragraph, it is important to note that while there is little evidence that probiotics in general are useful, there is evidence that specific strains can be useful, eg, Saccharomyces Boulardii for C Difficile recurrence. This is not to say that other strains are not useful, just that they have not been proven so yet.
LikeLike