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The increased demand for Bicillin to treat bacterial infections amid other antibiotic shortages and a spike in syphilis rates is what has caused the shortage.
Infectious disease experts have warned that the shortage of antibiotics, specifically a type of penicillin used for syphilis, could worsen the sexually-transmitted infection’s (STI) epidemic in the United States. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced in a June 12 letter that the long-acting injectable antibiotic Bicillin L-A, formally penicillin G benzathine, currently has low supply. The same […]
Bicillin is one antibiotic in a range of options that doctors can use to treat common childhood infections. Pfizer says it is not widely used in pediatrics because other options,
A shortage of Bicillin, an effective drug used to treat syphilis in pregnant patients and bacterial infections in children, could run dry by the end of June, Pfizer has warned.