Author: Marija Kusulja, MD Time to Antibiotic for Pediatric Oncology Patients With Febrile Neutropenia at Regional Emergency Departments This study evaluated time to antibiotic in 205 […]
What’s new in ID April 2020 – June 2020. Authors: Marija Kusulja, Vladimir Krajinović Association of a Care Bundle for Early Sepsis Management With Mortality […]
Vaccination of Infants with Meningococcal Group B Vaccine (4CMenB) in England The United Kingdom introduced a meningococcal group B vaccine (4CMenB, Bexero) into the national immunization […]
The Effect of Infectious Diseases Consultation on Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With MRSA, Candida, and Pseudomonas Bloodstream Infections Abstract We evaluated the association between infectious […]
Clinical phenotypes in sepsis Clinical phenotypes have been proposed as a potential way to identify those most at risk of dying from sepsis. In a retrospective […]
Lefamulin for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia Lefamulin is a novel antibiotic with activity against many common community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) pathogens, including Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and […]
Antibiotic overuse and adverse events in patients with community-acquired pneumonia Several meta-analyses have shown that short-course antibiotic therapy (ie, 5 to 7 days) is as […]
IDSA guidelines on asymptomatic bacteriuria (June 2019) The Infectious Diseases Society of America recently released updated guidelines on asymptomatic bacteriuria, which include discussion of populations not […]