Among hospitalized patients in Israel, exposure to any antibiotic was associated with double the risk for C difficile infection.
The FDA has agreed to fast-track its review of gepotidacin, an oral antibiotic already approved for urinary tract infections, for the treatment of uncomplicated gonorrhea.
Data from 412 US hospitals from 2018 through 2023 show 4.5% of patients received an antifungal, a finding researchers say warrants a specific focus on antifungal stewardship.
At three sites in Mayo Clinic's Advanced Home Care program, 75% of patients received at least one antibiotic.
Swiss biotech start-up Baxiva AG will receive $3 million to develop a multivalent glycoconjugate vaccine that targets invasive extraintestinal pathogenic E coli infections.
A decolonization intervention at three US nursing homes reduced carriage of multidrug-resistant organisms in residents, but rooms of those still colonized were highly contaminated.
Cefiderocol was found to be efficacious in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections, but more evidence is needed in patients with carbapenem-resistant infections.
A study in China finds that the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes in cigarette butts is 1.24-fold higher than in plant litter and 1.48-fold higher than in soil.
Among the findings was that Black patients in the US had methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) rates that were 2 to 3 times higher than White patients.
The team will examine the role that the gut microbiome plays in making some people resistant to colonization by Salmonella Typhimurium, a leading cause of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella disease.
The trial was investigating whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract cut in-hospital deaths in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients compared with standard care.
In lab experiments and chickens, peptides derived from a strain of probiotic bacteria inhibited Salmonella strains that commonly cause foodborne illness.
The modeling study predicts the rate of drug-resistant BSIs will rise sharply in Europe over the next 5 years, driven primarily by an aging population.
The intravenous formulation of fosfomycin has a novel mechanism of action and no known cross-resistance to other antibiotic classes.
More than one third of the 10,007 bacterial isolates collected from 13 West Bank hospitals were classified as multidrug-resistant.
Half of the Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates found in raw milk from dairy cattle and sheep were multidrug resistant.
Among more than 140,000 visits for ear infection, only 15% used watchful waiting, but treatment failure rates were low and similar to those for children who received antibiotics immediately.
A wild poliovirus type 1-positive sample was isolated from wastewater in Hamburg, Germany, this week.
The AMR portal, launched today by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, aims to make global AMR data more accessible and usable.
European surveillance data show incidence of bloodstream infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae rose by 61% from 2019 to 2024.
One of the projects launched by the Fleming Initiative will develop AI models to speed discovery of new antibiotics for gram-negative bacteria.
Only 42% of respondents from 98 countries knew that antibiotics aren't effective against viruses.
Of the 438 infants in the study, 52% were colonized with at least one multidrug-resistant organism, and one-third of the colonizations were linked to transmission.
Officials warn rising drug resistance could undo decades of progress in controlling HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections.
Fever was shortened by 2 day in kids with upper respiratory tract infections who received a probiotic mixture compared with those who received a placebo.
