Dental prophylaxis involves a dentist cleaning the teeth and inspecting the mouth for signs of any dental issues. Prophylaxis means preventive medical treatment. According to the Centers for Disease ...

Rifaximin prophylaxis was no better than placebo at preventing deaths and other negative outcomes from spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in patients with severe cirrhosis, according to interim ...

Allogeneic peripheral-blood stem-cell transplantation (SCT) from a matched related donor after myeloablative conditioning is the preferred curative treatment for patients with high-risk blood cancers.

The efficacy of continuous antibiotic prophylaxis in preventing urinary tract infection (UTI) in infants with grade III, IV, or V vesicoureteral reflux is controversial. In this investigator-initiated ...

How do the 2007 IE prevention guidelines differ from the prior (1997 [11]) iteration? There are three major differences in the current version. The "highest-risk" group for whom antibiotic prophylaxis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Langford BJ, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2021;doi:10.1093/cid/ciab116. “We know ...

Rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Bayer/Janssen) was superior to enoxaparin in preventing venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients immobilized by nonmajor orthopedic surgical procedures, in a new randomized trial ...