The goal of the writing panel was to assist clinicians in all areas of medicine in selecting appropriate antibiotic therapies for common pathogens in an effort to combat antimicrobial resistance.
The IDSA published guidelines for the treatment of patients with Clostridioides difficile infection in 2018. But which of the recommended treatment regimens is most cost-effective? Researchers have the...
In 2013, antibiotic-resistant organisms were responsible for nearly twice as many fatalities in the United States as previously reported, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are currently investigating a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Dublin infection that has been linked to ground beef.
Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic spore-forming bacterium. C difficile infection (CDI) is recognized as the leading cause of nosocomial diarrhea and is associated with substantial morbidity and...
The authors of a new study sought to identify a single panel of biomarkers and designate a point score that could predict treatment failure early in patients hospitalized with severe community-acquired...
Authors of a new analysis evaluated data on more than 2 million patients from the United States to determine the association of hospital-onset and community-onset sepsis with mortality risk.
After a clinical trial showed positive results in 89% of participants, a new drug regimen was approved by the FDA for highly drug-resistant forms of pulmonary tuberculosis.
