Guidelines recommend against use of midline catheters for vancomycin-based outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (OPAT), but evidence supporting the guidance is limited. This retrospective study ...

Norwegian study finds reduced antibiotic use for childhood respiratory infections, yet high prescriptions for ear infections ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After a MRSA swab protocol was implemented, antibiotic administration decreased. Vancomycin use also decreased ...

If you aren’t already concerned about antibiotic resistance, it’s time to take notice. The UN recently issued a grave warning, declaring antimicrobial resistance (AMR) one of the most urgent global ...

Telemedicine does not lead to increased or lower-quality antibiotic prescribing by general practitioners (GPs), Monash ...

Cholera kills thousands of people and infects hundreds of thousands every year—and cases have spiked in recent years, leaving governments with an urgent need to find the best ways to control outbreaks ...

C. difficile infection recurrence rates were numerically lower with vancomycin than with placebo, though the difference was not significant. However, the results could be clinically meaningful, an ...

Researchers have analyzed the rise of antibiotic resistance over the last 20 years in the UK and Norway, highlighting that antibiotic use is not the only factor in the increase. For the first time, ...