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Infections


  • Plain language summary: Does a person’s age affect how common fungal infections are and how well drugs can kill the infections?

    Plain language summary: Does a person’s age affect how common fungal infections are and how well drugs can kill the infections?

    Plain language summary of a study that looked at fungal samples to find out more about antifungal drug resistance in adults younger than 65 compared with adults aged 65 and older.

  • A plain language summary of how lefamulin alone can be used to treat pneumonia caught outside of the hospital due to common bacterial causes, including drug-resistant bacteria

    A plain language summary of how lefamulin alone can be used to treat pneumonia caught outside of the hospital due to common bacterial causes, including drug-resistant bacteria

    A new plain language summary in Future Microbiology summarises the results of two clinical studies that looked at how the new antibiotic lefamulin can be used to treat community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

  • A plain language summary of how well the single-dose Janssen vaccine works and how safe it is

    A plain language summary of how well the single-dose Janssen vaccine works and how safe it is

    Janssen single-dose COVID vaccine study results explained in plain language.

  • Antifungal drugs work together to treat germs causing fungal infections

    Antifungal drugs work together to treat germs causing fungal infections

    Our latest Plain Language Summary of Publication, published in Future Microbiology, provides a summary of an article that looked at how well different drugs could treat Candida auris infection.

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