Antimicrobials News

Last year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an advisory on health worker burnout and well-being, declaring the situation a “crisis” and naming it a “top national priority.”

There has been an alarming increase in extensively drug-resistant Shigella infections reported through national surveillance systems.

Experts published new recommendations focused on helping hospitals implement evidence-based infection prevention recommendations into practice.

ORLANDO — An automated hand hygiene monitoring system improved hand hygiene compliance at a New Jersey hospital, according to results presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual conference.

ORLANDO — An initiative that focused on surgical patients’ paths from pre-op meetings to hospital discharge reduced neurosurgical infections by more than 80% over 2 years at a Pittsburgh hospital, researchers reported.

Two-step Clostridioides difficile testing was associated with decreased reported incidence of hospital-onset C. difficile infection and C. difficile-specific antibiotic use, researchers found.

In a small study, custom-made bacteriophages produced by a center in Texas either cleared highly resistant bacterial infections or led to clinical improvement in the patient most of the time, researchers reported.

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HOUSTON — In this video, Cheryl A. Nickerson, PhD, professor of life sciences at the Biodesign Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics at Arizona State University, explains the benefits of microbiological research in space.

HOUSTON — IV treatment with a metallo-beta-lactam inhibitor could be an effective strategy to fight resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics, a researcher reported here.