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Receipt of a patient-centered educational leaflet decreases the desire to take antibiotics for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB), according to a study published in the December issue of Open Forum Infectious Diseases. Alistair Thorpe, from the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, and colleagues tested whether a patient-focused educational leaflet improved reported willingness to avoid antibiotics when not clinically necessary. The researchers found that after reading the vignette, respondents shown the leaflet were more comfortable not taking antibiotics, were less likely to misperceive ASB as a urinary tract infection (UTI), and displayed greater knowledge. DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf690 2025 HealthDay.