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Shedding Light on the C. difficile Landscape: Changing patterns of CDI ribotypes and the association between antibiotic use and hospital-onset CDI

Oct 27, 2021

Reviewed by: James “Brad” Cutrell, MD, UT Southwestern Medical Center; S. Schaeffer Spires, MD, Duke University School of Medicine Two recent epidemiologic studies “shed” important…

https://shea-online.org/shedding-light-on-the-c-difficile-landscape-changing-patterns-of-cdi-ribotypes-and-the-association-between-antibiotic-use-and-hospital-onset-cdi/

What’s new with Staph: Durations, Bundles and Combination Treatment

Reviewed by: Sonali Advani MBBS, MPH, Duke University School of Medicine; Rupak Datta MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, and Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University…

https://shea-online.org/whats-new-with-staph-durations-bundles-and-combination-treatment/

Can Reflex Urine Cultures Reduce Your CAUTI Rates? Think Again

Reviewed by: Sonali Advani MBBS, MPH; Duke University School of Medicine Dougherty and colleagues evaluated the impact of a urine culture standardization program aimed at…

https://shea-online.org/can-reflex-urine-cultures-reduce-your-cauti-rates-think-again/

Drawing a Line Between Midlines and Central Lines

Reviewed by Lauren M. DiBiase, MS; University of North Carolina Hospitals Hogle et al. conducted a retrospective surveillance study at five acute care hospitals over…

https://shea-online.org/drawing-a-line-between-midlines-and-central-lines/

Seasonal Influenza Activity is High … and Increasing

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…

https://shea-online.org/seasonal-influenza-activity-is-high-and-increasing/

Seeing the (W)hole in Antibiotic Use

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…

https://shea-online.org/seeing-the-whole-in-antibiotic-use/

MDRO Detection: The How Before the Wherefore

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…

https://shea-online.org/mdro-detection-the-how-before-the-wherefore/

Understanding ESBL Transmission

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…

https://shea-online.org/understanding-esbl-transmission/

Chief Medical Officers Can Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing

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)…

https://shea-online.org/chief-medical-officers-can-reduce-antibiotic-prescribing/

Drug-Resistant E. coli Bacteremia Transmitted by Fecal Microbiota Transplant

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…

https://shea-online.org/drug-resistant-e-coli-bacteremia-transmitted-by-fecal-microbiota-transplant/

Reconsidering Step-Down Therapy to ß-Lactams for Enterobacteriaceae Bacteremia?

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),…

https://shea-online.org/reconsidering-step-down-therapy-to-s-lactams-for-enterobacteriaceae-bacteremia/

Knowledge is Power for Preventing Healthcare Spread of Influenza

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…

https://shea-online.org/knowledge-is-power-for-preventing-healthcare-spread-of-influenza/