A new report released today shows that overall use of antibiotics in the community fell between 2015 and 2017 – the first decline in 20 years. However, the Third Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health, revealed ...

Researchers find more than a third of suspected infections were treated with antibiotics even when they didn’t fulfill the criteria for clinical infection. The inappropriate use of antibiotics could transform Australian residential aged care facilities into "a reservoir" of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers have ...