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Ways to Reduce Bacterial Resistance/ Successful Antimicrobial Therapy:

  • Narrow spectrum drug should be recommended first. Broad spectrum drugs should be reserved for situation where it is specific or where causative agent is not known.
  • Bactericidal should be preferred over bacteriostatic
  • Less toxic antimicrobial should be used than potentially more toxic agent.
  • Antimicrobial that requires less frequent administration should be preferred than that which is given after short intervals.
  • For less severe infection, oral antimicrobial drug should be used but for severe infection parenteral antimicrobial drug should be used.
  • Antimicrobial agent should always be use in proper dose and for proper duration of time.
  • Antimicrobial therapy should only be used when medical indications are clear
  • Overuse of newer agents should be avoided when already available agents are effective.
  • Less expensive drugs should be preferred and drug should that are easily available
  • Antimicrobial drug should not be used to treat trivial, self-limiting or untreatable infections.
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