Prevalence of Serious Bacterial Infections Among Febrile Infants Spikes During Pandemic
July 25th 2021An emergency department in Canada saw a steep drop in emergency department visits and a spike in the proportion of serious bacterial infections among newborns and young infants during the first year of the pandemic, a new study found.
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Cefiderocol Shows Promise in Phase 3 Studies, But Questions Remain
October 19th 2020Cefiderocol was noninferior to high-dose, extended-infusion meropenem in terms of all-case mortality in patients with gram-negative nosocomial pneumonia and showed similar clinical and microbiological efficacy to best available therapies in carbapenem-resistant, gram-negative bacterial infections, according to 2 recently released studies.
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Candida auris Is Changing the Paradigm of Antifungal-Resistant Candida
June 15th 2020Candida auris is an emerging health care–associated multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen with public health concerns more similar to those of extensively drug-resistant bacterial pathogens than other species of Candida.
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