Bacteremia

The use of adjunctive daptomycin therapy among patients with methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections does not shorten the duration of bacteremia, researchers reported.

Reported cases of invasive Cronobacter infection rose significantly in recent years, with opened containers of contaminated powdered infant formula most commonly identified as the source of the infections, researchers reported recently in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Patients hospitalized with Enterococcus bacteremia experienced significantly lower 30-day mortality after receiving an infectious disease consultation compared with those who did not, according to findings published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.