Antimicrobials News

Administering a beta-lactam antibiotic before vancomycin significantly reduced mortality rates among patients being treated for bloodstream infections, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Medicare beneficiaries have limited access to recommended treatments for Clostridioides difficile infection, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

WHO has updated its Model Lists of Essential Medicines and Essential Medicines for Children, adding 20 medicines for adults and 17 for children in addition to new uses for 28 previously listed medicines.

IDWeek, originally planned for San Diego, will be an all-virtual meeting for the second year in a row because of COVID-19.

I began my training at the beginning of the HIV pandemic. I still remember a lecture during my second year of medical school in which a young man told us that his friends were dying of a new disease called gay-related immunodeficiency disease, subsequently known as AIDS.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, data indicate that there has been a surge in interest among U.S. college students in pursuing medicine as a career.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America said it was “encouraged” by a Biden administration plan to allocate more than $2 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to combat drug-resistant infections.

Although prosthetic joint infections caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis are rare, they may occur in immunocompromised patients or in people from regions where tuberculosis is endemic, researchers reported in a recent study.

An assessment of 100 patients discharged from two medical short-stay units showed that 78% of their antibiotic prescriptions involved at least one type of antibiotic overuse, and 28% involved multiple types, researchers reported.

urine culture combined with empirical antibiotics strategy , according to researchers.