Antibiotic Resistance News

• Healthcare Facilities Can Prevent 35% to 70% of Infections Hand washing and other infection prevention and control practices can cut 35% to 70% of healthcare infections, according to a global study from the World Health Organization.
  Medscape Medical News, May 18, 2022
• Tuberculosis: The Disease That Changed World History Scientific discoveries have greatly improved the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of TB. Yet efforts to eradicate the disease appear to have taken a step backward.
  Medscape Medical News, May 16, 2022
• Antibiotic Prescribing Practice Varies Widely in Canada Specific feedback for primary care clinicians could reduce the use of avoidable antibiotics and the potential for the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.
  Medscape Medical News, May 11, 2022
• Worst TB Outbreak in 20 Years Reported in Washington State "Increased access to TB testing and treatment in the community is going to be key to getting TB under control."
  WebMD Health News, May 04, 2022
• Alert FDA Approves Two Vonoprazan Therapies for H pylori Eradication Vonoprazan-based dual and triple regimens showed superior eradication rates compared with PPI-based triple therapy in a pivotal trial.
  FDA Approvals, May 04, 2022
• ACP-IM 2022 Don’t Let FOMI Lead to Antibiotic Overuse Fear of missing infections in patients is a leading driver of inappropriate use of antibiotics, one expert on stewardship said at the 2022 ACP meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, May 03, 2022
• ECCMID 2022 Neonatal Sepsis Morbidity, Mortality, High Worldwide Eighteen percent of newborns worldwide die of neonatal sepsis, and this is accompanied by high use of last-line antibiotics to overcome resistant infections.
  Medscape Medical News, May 02, 2022
• ECCMID 2022 Antibiotic Prescriptions to Minorities Often Inappropriate Black and Hispanic/LatinX outpatient patient populations in the US have the highest inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, while pediatricians, despite high antibiotic prescribing, have the lowest.
  Medscape Medical News, April 28, 2022
• Kinder Chocolate Tied to 151 Salmonella Cases in 11 Countries The outbreak has been traced back to the company's Belgium production plant.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• ECCMID 2022 Inappropriate Antibiotic Use Increased During Pandemic Compared with the prepandemic period, US hospitals with medium and high rates of antimicrobial resistance showed higher levels of antibiotic use among both SARS-CoV-2 positive and negative patients.
  Medscape Medical News, April 27, 2022
• Malaria: Parasite DNA in Blood May Help Predict Drug Resistance Drug-resistant malaria 'is just an airplane flight or two away from non-endemic places like Canada and the United States.'
  Medscape Medical News, April 25, 2022
• Black, Senior Patients More Likely to Get Unneeded Antibiotics A new study that looked at 7 billion trips to healthcare centers found that antibiotics continue to be far overprescribed, especially among Black and senior patients.
  WebMD Health News, April 20, 2022
• French Hospital Starts Program to Fight Antibiotic Resistance To address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance, researchers are turning to bacteriophages, which kill bacteria effectively without affecting human cells.
  Medscape Medical News, April 14, 2022
• Asymptomatic C. difficile Carriers May Infect Their Families Hospitalized asymptomatic C. difficile carriers may infect people they live with after they return home, new research suggests.
  Medscape Medical News, April 13, 2022
• MenB Vaccine Provides Moderate Protection Against Gonorrhea Two observational studies suggest that fully vaccinated individuals were up to 40% less likely to contract the STI.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2022
• Antibiotic Use Varies Across Canada's Provinces Antibiotics are dispensed at higher rates in Newfoundland and Labrador than in Canada as a whole, which suggests the need for provincial targets to prevent overuse, say researchers.
  Medscape Medical News, April 12, 2022
• Can Gram Stains Guide Antibiotics for Pneumonia in Critical Care? Use of Gram stains to select antibiotics for ventilator-associated pneumonia offers similar clinical outcomes as guideline-based broad-spectrum treatment, study reports.
  Medscape Medical News, April 08, 2022
• Tebipenem Pivoxil Hydrobromide Offers Oral Option for Complex UTIs Clinical cure occurred in at least 90% of patients who received either treatment.
  Medscape Medical News, April 07, 2022
• Ukraine War Likely to Cause Infection Outbreaks Infections don't respect borders, and war and its resulting dislocations exacerbate the problem. Here's what to expect from the war in Ukraine.
  Medscape Medical News, April 04, 2022
• Antibacterials Industry Pipeline Slows to Trickle A new report from an industry association showed an increase in development from small companies, but funds remain limited.
  Medscape Medical News, March 25, 2022