Antimicrobials News

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A 1-year fellowship for senior trainees and early career infectious diseases physicians can help establish relationships with public health agencies and is an effective career development pathway, according to a study.

Rural hospitals are an integral part of the health care system. They provide services across the continuum of care from primary care to long-term care. In recent years, however, they have faced challenges.

Despite the importance of the specialty of infectious diseases in modern medicine — made all the more evident by the COVID-19 pandemic — many rural areas of the United States do not have access to specialized ID care.

Making an early switch to oral antibiotic therapy from IV therapy is safe and effective for patients with low-risk Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection, researchers determined.

Transitioning organ transplant recipients to oral antibiotic therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia is effective and associated with fewer adverse events compared with continued IV therapy, researchers found.

The CDC on Thursday urged physicians to be judicious in prescribing topical antifungals in light of the recent detection of antimicrobial-resistant superficial fungal infections in the United States.

Gram-negative bacteria comprise most of the CDC and WHO’s lists of critical and urgent antibiotic-resistant organism threats.

Researchers linked more than 1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance, more than half of which were linked to just four pathogens.

The FDA in 2023 approved treatments for several hospital-associated infections and fully approved a long-used COVID-19 medication, among other non-vaccine-related regulatory decisions.