Antibiotics

In episode 1 of this short video series, a clinician discusses his experience in what his institution is seeing as well as how they handle their treatment protocol and stewardship where possible.

Emerging literature suggests therapeutic drug monitoring for this antimicrobial to minimize the risk for linezolid-associated toxicities while maintaining efficacy in select populations.

Lodise breaks down significant findings from his 8 IDWeek 2022 posters.

Demystifying clinical data for treating invasive AmpC-harboring Enterobacterales.

Entasis presented follow-up data for its therapy, sulbactam-durlobactam (SUL-DUR), and its phase 3 ATTACK trial. The company is looking at a potential mid-2023 regulatory approval.

Encouraging ICU physicians to utilize rapid diagnostics, like the FilmArray Pneumonia Panel, may improve patient outcomes.

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing held a virtual winter meeting and a hybrid summer meeting in 2022. Ad hoc working groups have several breakpoint revisions underway for multiple organism-drug combinations.

Traditional therapy coverage does not include recent data that offers some updates in evaluating the current effectiveness of empiric antibiotic treatment.

Dr. Simon Portsmouth elaborates on the potential of Shionogi's cefiderocol, an up-and-coming agent in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

The phase 3 study met its primary and secondary end points of all-cause mortality, microbiological eradication rates, and new Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia complications.

At IDWeek 2022, Erica Stohs, MD, MPH, presented surprising findings about unnecessary antibiotics in a cohort coinfected with COVID-19 and pneumonia.

There is a significant need for C difficile treatments that don’t destroy the microbiome.

At IDWeek 2022, antimicrobial stewardship was front and center. However, not all tests are created equal.

Antimicrobial stewardship works, one IDWeek 2022 study found.

A 2-hour intermittent infusion of ceftazidime-avibactam with aztreonam (ATM) is safe, but clinicians should exercise caution when prescribing continuous infusion ATM.

Shionogi shared positive clinical cure rates from their ongoing trial of Fetroja (cefiderocol) for difficult-to-treat Gram-negative infections.

Extending antimicrobial stewardship programs to transition of care and discharge may prove beneficial to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use.

Novel β-lactamase inhibitor enmetazobactam with cefepime exceeded noninferiority to piperacillin/tazobactam in complicated UTI, pyelonephritis.

Oral antibiotics after partial completion of intravenous regimen for S aureus bacteremia improves outcomes of persons who inject drugs (PWID), which is a population that often has limited access to treatment.

Gonococcal septic polyarthritis is an uncommon manifestation of N gonorrhoeae infection, but has increased by about 40% in recent years.

The limitation in the number of pediatric-specific guidelines by professional organizations, and results from large randomized clinical trials, may place an additional emphasis on literature evaluation skills for pediatric ASP pharmacists.

Recent issues surrounding the ADAPT-PO and SURE-2 trials place the spotlight on the difficulties developing oral carbapenem-based antibiotics and case their future into doubt.

Salmonella becomes more dangerous as antimicrobial resistance grows. Read about its most common manifestations.

Although there are challenges for clinical and infectious disease pharmacists when trying to apply this concept, here are some considerations and strategies to employ stewardship in this setting.

The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee's (VRBPAC) positive vote follows the committee’s review of the data from the biologics license application (BLA) for RBX2660.