A quality improvement program can improve recommended antibiotic duration in children for both acute otitis media (AOM) and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) across multiple care delivery settings, ...

An increased risk of hospitalization for more than 6 days due to community-acquired infections was associated with male sex and admittance to the Pulmonology or Surgery department, with risk shown to ...

Unfortunately, many primary care providers do not recognize antibiotic resistance and inappropriate prescribing as a problem in their office. In a recent survey, more primary care providers agreed ...

In total, community-acquired respiratorytract infections (CARTIs) account formore than 116 million annual office visits,making them the most common conditionfor which antibiotics are prescribed inthe ...

Rabih Darouiche, MD, director of the center for prostheses infection at Baylor College of Medicine and founder of the Multidisciplinary Alliance Against Device-Related Infections, discusses tactics to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Staphylococcus aureus continues to be a pathogen associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This ...

The source of Staphylococcus aureus blood stream infections differs for community-onset versus hospital-onset infections, according to research presented at IDWeek 2014. Researchers at the University ...

Photo taken in Bangkok, Thailand Investigators conducted a cohort study that compared adverse effects and outcomes among patients with community-acquired urinary tract infection treated with ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have found that a sometimes deadly stomach bug, Clostridium difficile, (http://www.mayoclinic.org/c-difficile/) is on the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has approved omadacycline, an oral-only dosing regimen, for the treatment of community-acquired ...