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Implementation of behavioral "nudges" targeting non–guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing helped reduce inappropriate prescribing for respiratory tract infections at three California urgent care centers (UCCs), researchers reported last week in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Two studies in France highlight the multisystem inflammatory disorder.
"I do think there is a potential, unfortunately, for this to be a seeding event," says CDC Director Redfield.
Antibiotic therapy with CRP-guided duration or fixed 7-day duration were found to be non-inferior to 14 days of antibiotics.
UK researchers stop a large hydroxychloroquine trial after no benefit was found in hospitalized patients.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A study yesterday in The Lancet presents the clinical findings of autopsies conducted on six German patients (four men and two women, aged 58 to 82 years) who died from COVID-19 in April. All six had evidence of extensive brain pathologies at the time of death.
Each patient had severe viral pneumonia caused by COVID-19 and required mechanical intubation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
Pharmaceutical company Merck announced today that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental New Drug Application for the antibacterial combination drug Recarbrio to treat adult patients with hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP) caused by gram-negative pathogens.
The drug did not show effectiveness for postexposure prevention of COVID-19.
Hot spots include Brazil, Mexico, Peru, India, and Iran, and global deaths are nearing 400,000.
The company that obtained and analyzed study data would not comply with an audit, the study authors say.
The NIH director says some candidates will be ready for large-scale testing as early as July.
Though no effect was found, the study was stopped early because of low enrollment.
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week published a technical brief on water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH), and wastewater management to prevent infections and curb the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A study published today in JAMA Surgery has found a 0.93% overall incidence of COVID-19 among pediatric patients undergoing urgent surgery in three US hospitals, but with wide regional variations.
Americans could be at risk of worse outcomes for non-COVID emergencies.
The WHO is worried about accelerating epidemics, especially in Central and South America.
Lancet editors issue a statement acknowledging the criticism of a recent study.
One study found that obese patients were likely to require mechanical ventilation.
The proportion of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions issued by US physicians' offices and emergency departments (EDs) decreased minimally from 2010 through 2015, driven mainly by a decrease in unnecessary prescriptions for children, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
