Antimicrobials News

According to the CDC, the United States reported a record number of STD cases for the 6th consecutive year in 2019. CDC data also show that 68 million STIs occurred in the U.S. in 2018 alone.

Patients with aortic dissection or aneurysm prescribed fluroquinolones had elevated risk for adverse outcomes, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

On April 12, the CDC and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America will co-host Decennial Day, a 1-day virtual program focusing on health care epidemiology, infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention.

A single oral dose of secnidazole increased microbiological cure rates among women with trichomoniasis who were enrolled in a randomized controlled trial in the United States, including women with HIV or bacterial vaginosis.

ACP, citing previous data that indicate at least 30% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. were “unnecessary” and “often continued for too long,” issued best practices for appropriate antibiotic use in several bacterial infections.

In a randomized controlled trial, tedizolid was noninferior to linezolid for day 28 all-cause mortality in the treatment of gram-positive ventilated hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia.

IDWeek organizers announced that the 2021 meeting will be entirely virtual again because of the continued presence of COVID-19 and related restrictions.

Monoclonal antibodies isolated from children with invasive Staphylococcal aureus were capable of broad neutralization against distantly related variants of the two-component leukotoxin, LukAB, researchers reported.

I had veterinary virologists as parents. My dad studied and worked on rabies for his PhD, and my mother was a pioneer in India on buffalopox virus, which is very closely related to cowpox and smallpox, also earning her PhD.

Patients with drug-use-associated endocarditis are discharged with outpatient parenteral antibiotics less often than patients with non-drug-use-associated endocarditis, researchers reported.