Gastrointestinal Infections News

LOS ANGELES — A computer prompt recommending appropriate antibiotic use based on a patient’s level of risk for a resistant infection cut the use of extended-spectrum antibiotics for abdominal infections by around one-third in a large trial.

LOS ANGELES — Healio is on-site again for IDWeek, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Oct. 16-19.

Despite clinical guidance advising against such use, most individuals said that antibiotics would help treat common symptoms and prevent more serious illness, according to results of a survey of patients seen in primary care and ED clinics.

Fecal microbiota-based therapies are becoming more prevalent in the management of Clostridioides difficile infection.

An experimental vaccine failed to prevent Clostridioides difficile infection in a phase 3 trial but successfully reduced the duration of symptoms, infections requiring medical attention and antibiotic treatments, researchers reported.

A Salmonella enteriditis outbreak linked to eggs has left dozens hospitalized in nine states, prompting a Wisconsin farm to recall all eggs supplied by their farm to retailers, foodservice distributors and individual customers.

WHO this week announced that cholera cases increased by 13% and cholera deaths increased by 71% globally in 2023.

Five more people have died and 14 more illnesses have been reported in a multistate Listeria outbreak caused by sliced deli meats, the CDC said Wednesday.

Even before I came to the United States to start my internal medicine residency, I had discovered that my calling was a career in infectious diseases.

Diagnostic stewardship helped reduce the number of inappropriate tests ordered for Clostridioides difficile by 20 percentage points in a Florida health care system, according to a study.