Antimicrobials News

More than one-third of all UTIs reported in nursing homes were associated with a resistant pathogen, according to data published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Embedding simplified antimicrobial stewardship electronic order sets improved antibiotic prescribing for community-acquired pneumonia, UTIs and skin and soft tissue infections at a Canadian hospital, researchers said.

Older adults who received fluoroquinolones had a low risk for aortic aneurysm or aortic dissection, two studies published in JAMA Internal Medicine show.

IV bacteriophage therapy was safe and showed promise against an assortment of infections, according to findings from a case series published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

A pharmacist-led antibiotic timeout was found to be feasible and well accepted by hospital teams. However, it did not change overall antibiotic use, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Since its founding in 2018, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Inclusion, Diversity, Access and Equity Task Force (IDA&E) has worked to address racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

The CDC recently reported that more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States every year, and 50% of the antibiotic-resistant threats are gram-negative bacteria.

My path into infectious diseases began in 1983 during my intern year at Grady, when patients with a new infectious disease that we now know as HIV/AIDS began showing up.

Researchers developed a web-based tool to identify facilities at risk for intaking patients colonized or infected with multidrug-resistant organisms, which may aid health departments in combating the infections, they said.

Artificial intelligence can help predict the chance of resistant organisms appearing in sputum cultures in the ER, helping to guide therapy, according to findings presented during the ASM Microbe virtual meeting.