Nonprofit drug developer TB Alliance announced today that it will partner with an Indian company to manufacture and commercialize pretomanid for treating extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
An analysis of almost 160,000 pneumonia patients in 170 US hospitals indicates that urinary antigen testing (UAT), a practice recommended by national guidelines to allow for antibiotic de-escalation in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), is not widely performed, researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Recognizing new research and more emphasis on antibiotic stewardship, experts say change was needed.
The drug, which was FDA-approved last month, went toe to toe with moxifloxacin.
In new polio developments, Pakistan reported five more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases and four African countries reported more circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases, including the first in Benin, according to the latest weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Fully 67.8% of patients received antibiotics for longer than recommended.
Viruses account for 61.4% of cases in young kids, with RSV the most common viral cause and the leading cause of severe pneumonia.
A meta-analysis of 12 studies indicates that serum procalcitonin levels are unlikely to help clinicians determine whether community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in adults requires antibiotics, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A study yesterday in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy details the emergence of gonorrhea strains with high-level resistance to azithromycin in Taiwan.
A study over four flu seasons of influenza and other respiratory illnesses at nine Canadian hospitals found that 95% of health providers have worked while sick, often when symptoms were mild or began during the workday. Researchers reported their findings yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
