Reducing antibiotic use in primary care may be insufficient alone to curtail antimicrobial resistance
Medical Xpress reported on the recent findings from NHS England’s Quality Premium intervention on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), a program that rewards groups of general practitioners for improving quality of care, including reducing the over-prescription of...
Risk factors for periprosthetic joint infection after total joint arthroplasty: a systematic review and meta-analysis
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17-year-old makes color changing sutures that detect infection
Recently the PBS News Hour featured an episode on the invention of color-changing sutures by a 17-year-old high school senior from the suburbs of Iowa City, Iowa. Dasia Taylor first developed the idea for her school science fair after reading an article that featured...
A Prospective, Randomized Clinical Trial Comparing an Antibiotic-Impregnated Bioabsorbable Bone Substitute With Standard Antibiotic-Impregnated Cement Beads in the Treatment of Chronic Osteomyelitis and Infected Nonunion
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Common prescription drugs (not themselves antibiotics) may increase risk of developing antibiotic resistance
In an article shared by Medical Xpress, new research suggests that three commonly prescribed classes of drugs (proton pump inhibitors, beta-blockers and antimetabolites) could lead to antibiotic resistant infections caused by bacteria from the Enterobacteriaceae...WEBINAR – Uso y manejo del sulfato de calcio en osteomielitis e infecciones periprotésicas.
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COVID-19 may promote the spread of drug-resistant ‘superfungus’
Medical News Today recently reported on an emerging outbreak of a drug-resistant fungus in Brazil, and more broadly, the Americas. The fungus, Candida auris (C. auris), can cause infections in the bloodstream, wounds, and the ear. Since its emergence in the Americas...
Treating COVID-19: Are we overusing antimicrobials?
Medical News Today recently reported on a study published in The Lancet Microbe, which investigated the use of antimicrobials among COVID-19 patients that were hospitalized in the United Kingdom. With antimicrobial resistance being a global health concern, current...