Antimicrobials News

A novel modeling method demonstrated that, when it comes to identifying hot spots for bacterial contamination in patient hospital rooms, distance matters.

I chose ID as a medical specialty because of the intellectual stimulation and investigative nature that accompanies the study of microbes within humans.

The FDA granted Paratek Pharmaceuticals orphan drug designation for Nuzyra to treat infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria, the company announced this week.

Reduced susceptibility to metronidazole was associated with decreased clinical response rates in patients with Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

A study that assessed more than 22 million outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the United States found that more than half were not associated with a clinician visit or an infection-related diagnosis, researchers reported.

The rate of fluoroquinolone-resistant E. coli was “very high” in a study population of men undergoing invasive urologic procedures compared with the rates for the general hospital population, according to a study.

Researchers retrospectively analyzed nearly 450,000 antimicrobial susceptibility test results from a couple dozen hospitals to identify antibiotic pairs with disjoint resistance.

Between two first-line agents for uncomplicated UTIs, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole was associated with a higher risk for several adverse drug events compared with nitrofurantoin, researchers reported in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

A 7-day course of ciprofloxacin or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for presumed, symptomatic UTI in afebrile men was noninferior to 14 days of treatment, a randomized trial showed.

High-tech toilets at a Japanese hospital may be harboring and spreading multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to a study.