Top in ID: ICU outbreak; oral therapy for recurrent CDI
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A hospital that replaced sink drains and traps in an ICU, hoping to curtail an outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing bacteria, instead saw patients infected in a new outbreak of Serratia marcescens, according to a study.
“The lesson here is if this is something that an infection control team is considering, proceed with caution,” David Lehman, MD, an infectious disease fellow at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, said.
It was the top story in infectious disease last week.
Another top story was about a novel therapy that prevented the recurrence of Clostridioides difficile in adults at a high risk for recurrence, according to researchers.
Read these and more top stories in infectious disease below:
Hospital surprised by outbreak after replacing sink drains in ICU
A hospital replaced sink drains and traps in an ICU to stop the ongoing acquisition of multiple species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and found — paradoxically, researchers said — that it may have caused another outbreak. Read more.
Novel alternative to fecal microbiota therapy prevents recurrent CDI in study
A novel oral microbiome-directed therapy called VE303 successfully prevented recurrent C. difficile infection in adults at high risk for recurrence, researchers found. Read more.
Switch from IV to oral antibiotics associated with shorter hospital stays, treatment length
Researchers found that pneumonia patients who were switched early from IV to oral antibiotics had shorter hospital stays and fewer days on antibiotics. Read more.
Multidrug-resistant bacteria prevalent in supermarket meat, study finds
Researchers in Spain reported that that nearly half of supermarket meat samples tested in a study contained multidrug-resistant or potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli. Read more.
Dried blood spot test can detect HIV and hepatitis, researchers say
A dried blood spot test can be used to detect HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in a single drop of blood, researchers reported at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases. Read more.