A beta-lactam added to standard antibiotic therapy did not result in significant improvement.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested that manufacturers of bacitracin for injection voluntarily withdraw their products from the market.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) grew by 2 cases today, bringing the total to 3,420, including 2,240 deaths. Six hundred cases are still under investigation, according to the online Ebola dashboard maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The study shows how tolerance promotes the evolution of resistance with combination antibiotics.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a new test to diagnose methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which will allow health workers to screen patients for MRSA colonization more quickly—in as little as 5 hours compared with 24 to 48 hours for traditional culture-based tests.
MRSA is driven both by introduction of novel strains and by transmission within the household, the study found.
Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) participating in a quality improvement (QI) collaborative increased adherence to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) core elements of antibiotic stewardship dramatically and cut antibiotic use by a third, according to a study today in Pediatrics.
The study also found that MRSA infections declined in all facilities, perhaps due to other prevention steps.
A study today in Clinical Infectious Diseases indicates that nasal screening of patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonization has a high negative predictive value (NPV) for ruling out MRSA infection and could be a powerful antibiotic stewardship tool.
A study over three flu seasons found no association between flu vaccination and miscarriage, according to findings published yesterday in Vaccine.
