Antimicrobials News

I initially became hooked on ID when I was a medical student rounding on ID service and was evaluating a person with pneumonia who had just expectorated purulent sputum.

The WikiGuidelines collaborative has published its third clinical practice guidance — this one on the prevention, diagnosis and management of UTIs.

As a physician trained in India, I saw the devastating impact of infectious diseases like TB, malaria and waterborne illnesses, and the profound difference public health interventions can have. That led to my career in global health.

Most children who did not receive antibiotics for pneumonia did not experience treatment failure or severe outcomes, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open.

More than half of children with acute otitis media and 32% of children with upper respiratory infections tested positive for multiple pathogens in their nasal passages, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

LOS ANGELES — A panel of experts awarded David Roach, MD, instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and his team a $5,000 grant to aid in the development of a low-cost, easy-to-use assay for bacterial bloodstream infections.

LOS ANGELES — In a Healio video exclusive, the president-elect of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, or SHEA, gave an overview of the critical issues that health care epidemiologists will face in the coming year.

LOS ANGELES — David J. Weber, MD, MPH, weighed in on findings from the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America’s featured oral abstract at IDWeek.

LOS ANGELES — A computer prompt recommending appropriate antibiotic use based on a patient’s level of risk for a resistant infection cut the use of extended-spectrum antibiotics for abdominal infections by around one-third in a large trial.