THE ANTIBIOTIC GUIDE

ANTIBIOTIC GUIDE

- Thomas Berger

The antibiotic guide is a step towards promoting antibiotic stewardship at VRL i.e. right use of antibiotic, at the right time, place and targeting right pathogens. The present version focuses on the positioning of Elores. Following important aspects are covered for positioning of Elores:

Doctors specialty for treating various infections

Indications & corresponding conditions for different infectious diseases

Pathogens related to infectious disease

Elores target market

The antibiotic guide provides insight into the empiric/first line and evidence based therapies routinely followed in clinical practice, and it also become important to understand where not to use antibiotics. Detailed information is available in this guide as to where exactly position Elores either as empiric / first line or evidence based and situations where not to use / promote Elores.

Our endeavor in developing this database is also to give scientific evidences of positioning Elores either as empiric/first line or evidence based/second line. In doing so, scientific rationale is given in the database which is supported by our published literature/papers which can be easily downloaded from the link provided in the database and relevant points/paragraphs are highlighted with yellow colour.

While promoting antibiotic, it is also of utmost importance to understand the resistance pattern in country as it would help in understanding the potential of product and importance of preserving the life of existing antibiotics. This aspect is beautifully covered in this guide with pictorial representation of resistance pattern and is easy to get the graphical representation either by selecting antibiotics or microorganism.

Following resources are used for capturing data in developing the antibiotic guide :

1 National Treatment Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Infectious Diseases, Version 1.0 (2016), National Centre for disease control, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India.

2 Treatment Guidelines for Antimicrobial Use in Common Syndromes, Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Health Research, New Delhi, India 2017.

3 Resistance Map India, Centre for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, CDDEP.

4 ATLAS (Antimicrobial Testing Leadership And Surveillance), Pfizer.

5 Surveillance data, Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi.

6 Published research articles/papers of Elores in various national and international journals.

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