This issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, edited by Sara Cosgrove, MD, Pranita Tamma, MD, and Arjun Srinvasan, MD, is devoted to Infection Prevention and Stewardship. Articles in this issue include Behavior Issues in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Research Methods and Measurement Approaches for Analyzing the Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs; The Role of the Microbiology Laboratory in Antimicrobial Stewardship; Antimicrobial Stewardship in Long Term Care Facilities; Antimicrobial Stewardship in the NICU; Antimicrobial Stewardship in Immuno-compromised Populations; Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals/Lower Resources Settings; Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Outpatient Setting; Informatics and Antimicrobial Stewardship; Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions; and Teaching and Education in Antimicrobial Stewardship.
Comment: These results are consistent with C difficile infection. Detection of both antigen and toxin are expected when C difficile infection is present. Antigen positive, toxin negative Interpretation: C difficile present but toxin not ...
This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Cheston B. Cunha, is devoted to Antimicrobial Stewardship.
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Single-molecule sequencing to track plasmid diversity of hospital-associated carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae. Sci Transl Med 2014;6(254):254ra126. Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC). Vital signs: carbapenemresistant ...
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Costelloe C, Metcalfe C, Lovering A. Effect of antibiotic prescribing in primary care on antimicrobial resistance in individual patients: systematic ... Infectious diseases physicians: leading the way in antimicrobial stewardship.
Over the past several decades, “infection control has become a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of incredible importance with regard to the safety of patients and healthcare workers, regulation and accreditation of healthcare ...
The Guest Editors, coming from the Critical Care Medicine Department in the NIH, are the top thought leaders in the area of infections in critical care.
New Diagnostics for Childhood Tuberculosis Silvia S. Chiang, MDa,c, Douglas S. Swanson, MDb, Jeffrey R. Starke, MDa,* KEYWORDS Childhood tuberculosis Diagnosis Drug susceptibility testing Interferon-g release assay ...
Attributable cost of nosocomial primary bloodstream infection in pediatric intensive care unit patients. Pediatrics 2005;115(4):868–72. 48. Alahmadi YM, Aldeyab MA, McElnay JC, et al. Clinical and economic impact of contaminated blood ...