Early treatment with antibiotics reduces the death rate to between 4 and 15 percent.

The risk of side effects may be greater with certain antibiotics.

The problems often get better with antibiotics, but in rare cases they can last the rest of your life.

One was hearing loss, which has been found with other antibiotics as well, he says.

Always works and does it in only 5 days instead of the usual 10 day course with other antibiotics.

Treatment with antibiotics reduces the death rate to about 1 percent.

Early treatment with antibiotics is important to prevent more serious problems.

Therefore her treatment with antibiotics started "late," in the beginning of July.

With life support, surgery and antibiotics, she had a 50-50 chance.

By that time, treatment with antibiotics was already under way.