Reviewed by: Rossana Rosa, MD; UnityPoint Health According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCs), seasonal influenza activity has been elevated since late…
Reviewed by: Jesse Sutton, PharmD, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System Two recent articles highlight both the importance of outpatient antibiotic stewardship and…
Reviewed by: Scott Curry, MD; Medical University of South Carolina Active surveillance testing for multi drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) is most commonly done by direct detection…
Reviewed by: Rupak Datta, MD PhD, Yale School of Medicine; Emily S. Spivak, MD, MHS, University of Utah School of Medicine Three articles this month…
Reviewed by Rupak Datta, MD PhD, Yale School of Medicine Following a randomized controlled trial demonstrating that a letter from England’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO)…
Reviewed by Eric Lofgren, Washington State University The potential risk of pathogen transmission during fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been the reason potential donor stool…
Reviewed by Sonali Advani MBBS, MPH, Duke University School of Medicine A recent systematic review and meta-analyses published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases compares oral fluoroquinolone (FQ),…
Reviewed by Emily S. Spivak, MD, MHS, University of Utah School of Medicine Hospitalized patients are at risk of exposure to influenza from health-care providers…
Reviewed by Joseph Ting, MBBS, MPH, University of British Columbia Neonatal antifungal prophylaxis is commonly prescribed outside the recommendations based on known risk profiles. Neonates…
Reviewed By: John A. Sellick, DO, MS, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences The presumption of current mandatory reporting is that…
Reviewed by Valeria Fabre, MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Central-line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are preventable healthcare-associated infections with high morbidity, mortality, and hospital…
CLABSI Prevention, CLABSI Definition and More! In Search of CDI: The Plop Thickens, Part 2 Neonatal Fungal Consumption – Can We Agree to Disagree? Knowledge…
