Antimicrobials News

Preoperative antibiotic exposure led to a significant decrease in microbiologic yield of operative cultures among patients with native joint septic arthritis, researchers found.

Some common practices to prevent surgical site infections may not be necessary because no studies have shown benefits, according to a preconference presentation before ESCMID Global.

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is getting a new name.

Given my family history of MDs — my father, siblings and spouses of my siblings are all physicians — I actively tried to steer clear of medicine, but in the end, I just couldn’t help myself.

The FDA this week approved the antibiotic Zevtera for the treatment of three bacterial infections 17 years after it was first submitted to the agency.

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a potentially important tool for patient care, including in infectious diseases.

Around one in eight hospitalized adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in a Michigan study were inappropriately diagnosed, and most of those patients received unneeded antibiotics, according to a study.

DENVER — As clinicians await national guidelines on its use, evidence continues to mount that doxy-PEP can help curtail the prolonged epidemic of sexually transmitted infections in the United States.

When I was in high school, I was given the opportunity to take a part-time job that was a little out of the ordinary for my age: I worked for a clinical microbiologist selling sterile sheep blood to microbiology laboratories to make bacterial culture agar.

After the construction of two ICUs, researchers found that contamination with carbapenem-resistant organisms of the in-room sinks happened quickly.