Bacterial Infections News

A combination therapy of IV doxycycline and azithromycin was more effective for the treatment of severe scrub typhus than using either drug alone, according to findings published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A phase 2 randomized clinical trial found that ceftolozane/tazobactam was a safe and effective option for the treatment of children with complicated UTIs, researchers reported in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

A 12-year-old girl presents to the guest columnist’s office with a red, painful right auricle. The onset was yesterday, and it is worse today.

The optimal duration of antibiotic therapy has been a matter of some debate, and increasingly, research is showing that shorter durations are just as effective as longer courses for many infections.

The prevalence of bacterial infections in hospitalized infants — after rising during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic — fell to prepandemic levels earlier this year, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile tends to “cooperate” with microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract, such as the pathogen Enterococcus, which can help the bacterium thrive, according to a study published in Nature.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — An antimicrobial stewardship initiative involving more than 130 U.S. hospitals has shown promise — particularly when it comes to treating children for an appropriate duration, researchers reported here.

This year, one of the presentations at November’s Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will mark the end of an era.

There was a short-term increase in selection for resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae among children who received azithromycin during a mass administration of the antibiotic, but no evidence of long-term resistance, a study found.