Antibiotic Resistance Perspective

• Could Less Be More in Febrile Neutropenia, Too? Two recent studies inform antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk patients with febrile neutropenia.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), June 2018
• Rising Kidney Stone Incidence: Is This Novel Risk Factor the Reason?   Dr Arefa Cassoobhoy highlights a study showing that oral antibiotic use is linked with risk for nephrolithiasis.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 2018
• New Help for Managing Clostridium difficile Infection   New guidelines from IDSA/SHEA highlight best practices for treating C difficile infection. Dr David Johnson provides insight for all providers who must be cognizant of this widespread problem.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 2018
• 'E coli' and Food Safety: It's a Jungle Out There Have we made progress to reduce the risk for foodborne 'Escherichia coli' infection? Dr Balistreri discusses this serious public health concern.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 2018
• The Lean Antibiotic Mantra Antibiotics -- while focusing on the right drug, the right dose, and the right duration, most important is to make the right diagnosis. Sometimes you may not even need the antibiotic.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 2018
• Survival of the Slimiest: The Persistent Nature of Biofilms Biofilms are hardier than we imagined, playing an underappreciated role in nosocomial transmission.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), March 2018
• Illnesses Linked to Contact With Pets and Farm Animals We love our animals, but occasionally they transmit some fairly serious pathogens, so precautions must be taken.
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 2018
• Therapy Duration and Follow-up Blood Cultures in Bacteremia Two recent studies can help streamline therapy of gram-negative bloodstream infections.
  Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), February 2018
• Four Old Antimicrobials That Still Work Best These four antimicrobials aren't the newest, but they have staying power.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, January 2018
• Fungal Infections: Antifungal Stewardship   Experts look to the experience and methods of antibacterial stewardship to improve patient outcomes and reduce antifungal resistance.
  Medscape TV, January 2018
• 5 Best of 2017: Pediatrics Viewpoints Dr William Basco ends the year by reviewing the most widely read and commented-upon pediatric Viewpoint columns on Medscape in 2017.
  Medscape Pediatrics, December 2017
• Antibiotic Overuse Blind Spot: Dental Prescribing Recent data shine a light on a possible cause of community-acquired Clostridium difficile infection: the antibiotics prescribed by dentists.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 2017
• Predicting Treatment Failure in Kids With AOM From the 'news you can use' department, new evidence suggests which children with AOM will benefit most from antibiotics and which are good candidates for 'watchful waiting.'
  Medscape Pediatrics, November 2017
• Fungal Infections: The "At Risk" Patient   Experts discuss how commonly people, such as diabetics, are becoming immunocompromised and thus more vulnerable to aggressive and drug-resistant pathogens.
  Medscape TV, November 2017
• Managing Bacterial Infections: UTIs: What Not to Miss   Specialists describe the symptoms of severe pyelonephritis and uncommon presentations that can pose management issues if not identified early in their course.
  Medscape TV, November 2017
• Managing Bacterial Infections: UTIs: Critical Workup   Specialists discuss the various presentations of urinary tract infections in women and key differences in symptoms between complicated and uncomplicated UTIs.
  Medscape TV, October 2017
• New Antibiotic Stewardship: Core Elements Guide From CDC   Hear about CDC's new antibiotic stewardship core elements guide for small and critical access hospitals.
  CDC Expert Commentary, October 2017
• Broad-Spectrum Antibiotics Reduce Hospital Mortality   Dr Andrew Shorr reports on promising data suggesting that broad-spectrum antibiotics reduce mortality, but will overly broad therapy cause antibiotic resistance?
  Medscape Pulmonary Medicine, October 2017
• Ten New Antibiotics in the Pipeline for Resistant Infections After decades of limited drug development for resistant bacterial infections, there are now a multitude of agents approved or close to approval, experts report.
  Medscape News Slideshows, October 2017
• Automation and Antimicrobial Stewardship Want to know current rates of C difficile infection or nosocomial pneumonia? Information technology makes us 'smarter and more efficient,' says Dr Lucas Schulz.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, October 2017