A new European surveillance report shows rising resistance to key antibiotics, and increasing trends in multidrug resistance, in invasive gram-negative bacteria.
Patients incorrectly labeled as allergic to penicillin are more likely to receive broad-spectrum antibiotics, a practice that promotes resistance.
The Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government, in partnership with Australia's Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and the Department of Health, released a new report showing that targeting high-prescribing physicians with a letter from the CMO helped lower the number of antibiotic prescriptions within 6 months.
A small study in Clinical Infectious Diseases has found that coinfection with influenza and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is associated with high mortality in critically ill children, and that mortality was more than five times higher in children who received vancomycin monotherapy, a finding the authors say supports treatment with additional antibiotics in severe cases.
People who inject recreational drugs are 16.3 times more likely to develop invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than people who do not inject drugs, according to data published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR).
Epidemiologists with the Florida Department of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today on a small outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a long-term acute care hospital.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given BacterioScan, Inc. of St. Louis clearance to market its rapid automated diagnostic system, 216Dx, for detection of bacterial urinary tract infections (UTIs).
A study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases shows that while rates of healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have decreased in the United States, racial disparities in MRSA rates have not changed.
Texas researchers who analyzed data from 230 US hospitals discovered that patients with a urine culture taken on the day of hospital admission receive more days of antibiotics and have a longer hospital stay than do patients who do not have a urine culture, according to their study yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE).
Fluoroquinolone resistance in hospital-onset E coli bacteremia rose markedly.