Study identifies thresholds for antibiotic use

24 April 2019

Researchers claim to have come up with the first guidance on the amount of antibiotics that can safely be prescribed without generating resistant superbugs.

The study was led by the National Health Service (NHS) in the Aberdeen region of Scotland, NHS Grampian, in collaboration with Ian Gould, Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen, and uses data modelling to calculate the risk/benefit ratio for several different types of antibiotics.

Published in Nature Microbiology, this study has developed a way to determine the maximum level of several different types of antibiotic that patients can take without bugs developing resistance.

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