Tag: Antimicrobial Stewardship

A global scoping review of 74 primary studies shows vaccination programmes measurably reduce antibiotic consumption and drug-resistant infections, positioning immunization ...

A new narrative review argues that most of the roughly 10% of patients labeled penicillin-allergic are not truly allergic, and ...

When a critically ill patient develops a bloodstream infection caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, the clock starts immediately. This bacterium, ...

A new Perspective argues that ICU-acquired pneumonia should be managed as an explicit attribution problem, grading how plausibly a detected ...

A prospective study in North Macedonia found that pharmacist-interpreted multiplex PCR testing enabled antibiotic discontinuation in nearly two-thirds of hospitalized ...

A prospective study in Karachi found drug-related problems in 93% of hospitalized children with infections, with pharmacist interventions achieving 98.7% ...

A new commentary in Pediatric Research argues that neonatal antibiotic prescribing must move toward precision stewardship, balancing the risks of ...

A new review maps which sepsis biomarkers have actually reached regulated in vitro diagnostic status and why most discoveries never ...

A prospective study of 210 hospitalized adults in Southwest Ethiopia found that admission procalcitonin performed poorly for diagnosing bacterial infection ...

A 13-year Turkish study of intensive care patients with external ventricular drains found that nearly two-thirds of drain-associated brain infections ...

A large Chinese cohort study found that both metagenomic and targeted next-generation sequencing of lung fluid outperformed conventional tests for ...

An 11-year study at a German neonatal intensive care unit found that clinicians attributed roughly one third of positive blood ...

A retrospective cohort study in Pakistan found no significant mortality difference between carbapenem-based and non-carbapenem therapy for hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated ...

A systematic review of 46 studies finds that 51 percent of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in Iran are carbapenem-resistant, with ...

A retrospective Chinese cohort study shows that clinically relevant contamination of organ preservation fluid, especially when matched to donor respiratory ...

A five-year laboratory surveillance study at a Chinese tertiary hospital found that nearly half of clinical isolates were multidrug-resistant, but ...

A retrospective Italian study finds that intensive antibiotic treatment of pneumonia in a frail advanced-cancer population led to clinical resolution ...

A six-year analysis of over 10,000 pediatric urine isolates at a Turkish tertiary hospital finds ciprofloxacin resistance in E. coli ...

A single-center ICU study found that 85.4 percent of Gram-negative bloodstream isolates were carbapenem-resistant, with amikacin and colistin retaining only ...

A rapid PCR-based molecular test on sonication fluid from revised joint implants delivered results within hours and showed high clinically ...