Antimicrobials News

Even before I came to the United States to start my internal medicine residency, I had discovered that my calling was a career in infectious diseases.

Mass antibiotic administration to children in sub-Saharan Africa reduced mortality rates, but there was little benefit when dosing was limited to infants aged 1 to 11 months, as recommended by WHO, according to results from the AVENIR trial.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has updated its guidance on the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative infections and said it aims to update the guidelines annually to keep up with evolving resistance and new research.

More than half of antibiotic prescriptions for acute sinusitis follow prescribing guidelines, but nearly one-third do not, and most prescriptions are given for too long a duration, according to a study.

Although daptomycin remains more expensive than vancomycin, it is a “suitable alternative” to daptomycin for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy because it results in less health care utilization, researchers reported.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America released updated guidelines on complicated intra-abdominal infections for the first time since 2010.

CMS included a new infectious disease consult add-on code as part of its proposed new fee schedule could help improve compensation for ID clinicians, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

In June, the CDC began recommending doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis — or doxy-PEP, as it is commonly known — as a prevention strategy for STIs in certain high-risk populations.

ID is a dynamic field that is constantly changing. The types of infections we’re talking about today are different than what we may have been talking about 5 years ago. So, it’s intellectually stimulating and challenging.