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• Antibiotics Aren’t Effective for Most Lower Tract Respiratory Infections

  Use of antibiotics provided no measurable impact on the severity or duration of coughs, even if a bacterial infection was present, finds a large prospective study of people who sought treatment in U.S. primary or urgent care settings for lower-respiratory tract infections.

  Category: News Release Tags: antibiotic resistance, antibiotic use, cough, lower-respiratory tract infection