
People living with HIV were less likely to receive inappropriate antibiotics for acute respiratory infections compared with people without HIV, especially when treated by an HIV clinician, researchers found.
Infectious diseases fellow Mackenzie R. Keintz, MD, and colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center hypothesized that people with HIV would be more likely to receive inappropriate antibiotics for an acute respiratory infection because they are assumed to be at higher risk.
“People with HIV have often been excluded from studies evaluating overuse of antimicrobials,”