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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 22
A team of pediatricians in Massachusetts has developed a new metric for capturing the range of antibiotic prescribing among pediatricians for common clinical scenarios.
A 30-pill regimen reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 88%, company data show.
Metabolic syndrome, a chronic low-grade inflammatory state, was tied to acute respiratory distress.
Data from South Africa and the UK show that illnesses may be less severe with the new variant.
People unvaccinated against COVID-19 were at up to four times the risk of infection, finds a JAMA Network Open study based on tests taken at US retail pharmacies, most of them after the emergence of the Delta (B1617.2) variant.
WHO director says there's no doubt socializing over the holidays will lead to more cases, overwhelmed healthcare systems, and deaths.
The authors say use of poorer data is understandable early in a pandemic, but standards should be raised later.
Biden has instructed the government to distribute 500 million free at-home tests.
Thirty-eight Americans came back from surgeries in Mexico with carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
A study of 107 French teens hospitalized with the COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) shows that none had been fully vaccinated against SARS-CoV-2, and only 7 had received one dose.
Other European nations battling Omicron consider taking tougher physical distancing measures.
A study of 685 pediatric patients finds that 10% had severe gastrointestinal involvement.
The variant is in at least 45 states and is causing a surge in the Northeast, including in New York City.
A small observational study presented over the weekend at the online Euroanaesthesia conference suggests that, of COVID-19 patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), those with acute kidney injury (AKI) are more likely to die in the hospital than those with a history of kidney disease.
Implementation of a multifaceted antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in a large community hospital in New Jersey was associated with significant, sustained reductions in unnecessary antibiotic use, Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) rates, and antimicrobial acquisition costs, researchers reported late last week in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Early treatment with molnupiravir nearly halved the risk of hospitalization and death.
New UK estimations cast doubt on whether Omicron cases are less severe than Delta variant infections.
Test to Stay involves testing close contacts of a COVID-19 student at least twice in the week after exposure.
Key antibiotic sales for food animals fell just 3% from 2019 to 2020, and the decline has plateaued.
