Data from 352 US outpatient facilities show a 20% increase in antibiotic prescribing per year from 2021 through 2023, a finding researchers say reflects a return to pre-pandemic healthcare use patterns.
Researchers in Italy observed a significant reduction in antibiotic use for sexually transmitted infections after the targeted introduction of doxyPEP.
Among hospitalized pneumonia patients, screening for MRSA colonization with a nasal swab-based rapid PCR test cut duration of anti-MRSA antibiotics by 2 days.
The systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from 51 countries also found that 57% of antibiotic prescriptions in primary care were inappropriate.
Orlynvah is a broad-spectrum oral penem antibiotic for treating uncomplicated UTIs in adult women who have limited or no alternative treatment options.
Since 2024, antibiotic-resistant pertussis cases have been detected in 4 nations in the Americas: Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and the US.
South Korean diagnostics company QuantaMatrix will receive $2.85 million to advance work on a test that can diagnosis sepsis in newborns within 6 hours from very small blood samples.
Maryland-based Zeteo Tech will receive $1 million to advance work on a novel test that can diagnose LRTIs from exhaled breath.
An analysis of national action plans finds a 'marked divide' in how high-income and low-income countries are able to respond to AMR.
At a New Jersey hospital, treating 29 patients with multiple recurrent CDI cases resulted in a net loss of more than $2.2 million over 4 years.
Researchers with the New York City Health Department say the results suggest real-time veterinary surveillance for carbapenem-resistant organisms is needed.
A randomized controlled trial will determine whether zaloganan, an antibacterial and antibiofilm peptide, is superior to the current standard of care.
Analysis shows antibiotic consumption rose in Southeast Asia and Africa from 2010 to 2021, while declining in Europe and the Western Pacific.
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.
