40 years of antibiotic guidelines

Reflecting on four decades of antimicrobial stewardship in Australian healthcare settings This week, as part of World Antibiotic Awareness Week, healthcare practitioners celebrated 40 years of therapeutic guidelines for antibiotics use in Australia. Australia’s Antibiotic Guidelines were first published in 1978 after microbiologist Robin Pavillard reported in April 1977 that 25% of Staphylococcus aureus infections