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Today in Clinical Infectious Diseases Colorado researchers report declining fluoroquinolone use after initiating a statewide stewardship collaborative to improve the diagnosis and treatment of inpatient urinary tract infections (UTIs) and skin and other soft-tissue infections (SSTIs).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The rate of outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) dropped again this week to 2.5%, down from 2.7% in the previous week, and influenza B continues to cause an increasing percentage of flu cases, according to the latest influenza surveillance data reported today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This is the 18th week ILI has been at or above the national baseline, which is 2.2%.
A post hoc study in South African pregnant women who took part in a flu vaccine study in 2011 and 2012 found that flu vaccination may have had a protective effect against Bordetella pertussis. Researchers described their findings today in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
From 2013 through 2017 European officials recorded 620 cases of Candida auris, mostly from four large outbreaks, and 110 of them (17.7%) involved bloodstream infections, according to a report today in Eurosurveillance.
The isolate shows high-level resistance to azithromycin and resistance to ceftriaxone.
South Africa has reported more highly pathogenic H5N8 detections in ostriches, other captive birds, and a wild bird, and Cambodia reported another H5N1 outbreak in poultry, according to the latest avian flu reports from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
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).
Death rates dropped 18.7% from 1980 to 2014, with the largest decline in men.
The findings represent an opportunity to reduce unnecessary use of the drugs.
The pace of new infections in Nigeria's Lassa fever outbreak is starting to slow, but the epidemic is far from contained, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said yesterday in a statement.
Overall global antibiotic use climbed by 65% from 2000 through 2015.
Of kids 7 years and older with autism, 82% got recommended vaccines by age 4, compared with 94% in those without autism.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) released four new reports of MERS-CoV cases over the weekend, including two cases that had direct contact with camels.
On Mar 21, a 67-year-old Saudi man from Najran was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). He is in stable condition and had contact with camels.
A survey of 244 members of three infectious diseases societies reveals that the most common approached to antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are antibiotic reviews with prospective audit and feedback (PAF), prior authorization for select antibiotics, and guideline development, according to a study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Nearly a third of hospitalized children get drugs to prevent, not treat, bacterial infections.
Illnesses from Salmonella Javiana, Thompson, and Infantis have risen about 50% in 10 years.
A 9-year single-center study by Columbia University scientists published yesterday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology found that decreases in multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) were likely not due to implementing universal contact precautions (UCPs).
The rate of outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses (ILI) dropped to 2.7% last week, close to the national baseline of 2.2%, according to the latest influenza surveillance data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This is the 17th week ILI has been at or above the national baseline.
