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Findings from a state-of-the-art review showed that doxycycline prophylaxis may be a promising strategy to prevent bacterial STIs.

The addition of an automated 72-hour antibiotic time-out alert within the electronic medical record system at Mercy Hospital in St. Louis led to more frequent de-escalation of broad-spectrum antibiotics compared with the period before its implementation, researchers reported.

Research published in Pediatrics suggests that infants aged 60 days and younger with bacteremic UTI could receive shorter courses of parenteral antibiotics without the risk for readmission or recurrent infection.

Well-funded and well-rounded antimicrobial stewardship programs are critical in the fight against antimicrobial resistance, and including clinical nurses in antimicrobial stewardship interventions could help expand resources, researchers said.

A review of the initial use of seven new antimicrobial agents at six community hospitals in western Pennsylvania revealed that uptake occurred within 1 to 2 years of FDA approval, and researchers observed that ceftolozane-tazobactam and ceftazidime-avibactam were more frequently chosen for off-label use.

The Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator, or CARB-X, granted Vaxxilon AG up to $1.4 million in nondilutive funding to develop a multivalent vaccine to prevent infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, according to a news release.

Inappropriate antibiotic treatment is common in hospitalized patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria, particularly among elderly patients with altered mental status, and it may lead to increased length of hospital stay, according to study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Physician compliance with procalcitonin-guided antimicrobial stewardship recommendations was associated with a reduction in length of antimicrobial therapy at a community hospital in Arkansas, researchers reported in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Incorporating a pharmacy-driven partnership into one children’s hospital’s antimicrobial stewardship plan decreased therapeutic drug monitoring for children administered IV vancomycin without increasing the risk for later kidney injury, according to findings published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.