Two interesting articles in this month's issue:
Erythromycin Inhibits Rhinovirus Infection in Cultured Human Tracheal Epithelial Cells
and
Of course the latter paper will get more attention … though neither paper is patient oriented, and neither paper would change clinical practice at all. The paper on erythromycin is a bit troubling to me .. as it is another piece of evidence that the use of antibiotics as anti-inflammatories may increase in the near future. As UniSci news reports, there is much thought and research going into these ideas.
