Antimicrobials News

President Joe Biden on Friday officially announced that former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, will be the next director of the CDC.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored challenges in the prevention and treatment of health care-associated infections.

Antimicrobial stewardship interventions recommended by either female or male clinicians were equally accepted, according to a recent study.

The FDA on Tuesday approved letermovir for the prevention of cytomegalovirus disease in high-risk adult kidney transplant recipients, Merck announced.

Transplant medicine and the field of transplant infectious diseases have faced numerous disruptions and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

President Joe Biden is set to announce former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, as the next director of the CDC, according to multiple reports.

The FDA has approved IV sulbactam-durlobactam to treat hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia caused by susceptible strains of Acinetobacter baumannii-calcoaceticus complex.

Treating patients with necrotizing soft tissue infections with either clindamycin plus vancomycin or linezolid resulted in similar clinical outcomes, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

I actually knew I wanted to study infectious diseases even before embarking on a career in medicine.

SEATTLE — Using a more robust diagnostic “continuum” for UTIs could improve the diagnosis and treatment of the most common hospital-acquired infection, according to a study.