A combination antibiotic is one in which two ingredients are added together for additional therapeutic effect.[1] One or both ingredients may be antibiotics.[1]
Antibiotic combinations are increasingly important because of antimicrobial resistance.[2] This means that individual antibiotics that used to be effective are no longer effective,[1] and because of the absence of new classes of antibiotic, they allow old antibiotics to be continue to be used.[2] In particular, they may be required to treat multiresistant organisms,[1][2] such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.[3] Some combinations are more likely to result in successful treatment of an infection.[1]
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^ abcTyers, Mike; Wright, Gerard D. (25 January 2019). "Drug combinations: a strategy to extend the life of antibiotics in the 21st century". Nature Reviews Microbiology. 17 (3): 141–155. doi:10.1038/s41579-018-0141-x. PMID 30683887. S2CID 59259623.
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