Join us on January 31st at 10 a.m. Eastern Time US for SHEA’s next International Coffee Talk. This coffee talk will feature a presentation titled; Practical Strategies for Implementing…
The 2026 Spring Conference, to be held in Chicago, Illinois will include topics on healthcare epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship, long-term care, research methods, clinical microbiology, patient…
Reviewed by Barry Rittmann, MD, MPH, Virginia Commonwealth University Antibiotic allergy labels (AALs) have significant effects on infectious disease management and outcomes. AALs have been…
Reviewed by Sanchi Malhotra MD, University of California Los Angeles Non-medical vaccine exemption rates have increased from 1% in 1991 to 3% in 2023 among…
Jen Cihlar, DO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center This retrospective cohort study looked at risk factors bloodstream infections due to UTI (bUTI) in cancer patients, recurrence,…
Reviewed by Mary Fortini, DO, University of Utah This was a small prospective study (54 patients) evaluating the development of ESBL-Enterobacterales (ESBL-E), CRE, and VRE…
Reviewed by Jose A. Lucar, MD, FIDSA, The George Washington University Combining sulbactam with avibactam significantly enhances activity against carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB), offering a promising…
Reviewed by Shipra Gupta, MD, MS, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Bottomline- A 5-day twice-daily nasal iodophor regimen modestly reduced Candida auris nasal bioburden in nursing…
Reviewed by Clare Marlin MS, RN, CIC; Brain Innovation Center, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab Robots are unique in the cleaning process within the hospital setting…
Embracing Robots in Infection Prevention Wiping Out the Yeast Beast: Evaluating Iodophor for C. auris Nasal Decolonization Avibactam to the Rescue: Enhancing Sulbactam Against Carbapenem-Resistant…
Step 1 Go to ICHE homepage on Core: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology Step 2 Click on the bell symbol on the top right (in line with the journal…
This statement addresses the inappropriate antibiotic prescribing occurring during the coronavirus 2019 pandemic (COVID-19) that has exacerbated another urgent public health crisis: antibiotic resistance in…