Associate Professor, University of Western Australia
Head of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, the Clinical Microbiology Research Group and the FAST Lab at the University of Western Australia; Medical Microbiologist with PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA.
Specialist interest in antibiotic resistance, drug resistant infections, rapid diagnosis of sepsis, field-deployable lab response to emerging infections, tropical infectious diseases and global health.
Health Check: I’m taking antibiotics – when will they start working?
Dec 04, 2018 00:19 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
So youve got an infection (probably), feel terrible, saw your doctor and now have a freshly filled prescription for antibiotics. Once you start taking them, when will you feel better? This is difficult to predict. Each...
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