Bloodstream Infection

Researchers found an association between insertion site inflammation and central line-associated bloodstream infections, according to a recent study.

The symbiotic relationship between antimicrobial stewardship and diagnostic technology is becoming more evident.

Study findings indicated that although most patients who had insurance before developing end-stage renal disease initiate hemodialysis with a central venous catheter, use of fistula for vascular access demonstrated the lowest risk for subsequent bloodstream infections.

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.

Stenotrophomonas maltophili a was unexpectedly identified as the most common carbapenem-resistant, gram-negative pathogen to cause bloodstream infections between 2010 and 2015 in a retrospective cohort study of a large U.S. database.

Patients with multidrug-resistant organisms treated with fecal microbiota transplantation had shorter hospitalizations, fewer infections in their bloodstream and had easier-to-treat infections, according to an expert presenting data during a press conference in advance of Digestive Disease Week data publication.

The addition of an antistaphylococcal beta-lactam antibiotic to standard of care — IV vancomycin or daptomycin — did not improve outcomes for patients with MRSA bloodstream infections and increased the risk for acute kidney injury, leading to the early termination of the study, researchers reported in JAMA.

WHO released a list of 10 global health challenges for the new decade that it says leaders are failing to invest in appropriately. It was the week’s top story in infectious disease.

Among patients with common bloodstream infections, lack of infectious disease consultation was associated with a more than fourfold increased hazard of death at 3 months, according to findings from a recently published study.

Health care-acquired bloodstream infections in pediatric patients have a “significant impact” on mortality, length of stay and health care costs, according to findings published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.