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  • Self-Testing for STIs Can Help Improve Access and Reduce Outbreaks

    The increasing cases of syphilis, congenital syphilis, and some other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the post-pandemic era suggest clinicians and public health departments need additional strategies and tools to combat the problem.

  • Managing Pediatric Bone Infections

    Pediatric osteoarticular infections may be subtle in their presentation, and clinicians must have a high degree of suspicion to make a timely diagnosis and institute appropriate therapy. The authors provide the essential information clinicians require to understand the presentation, diagnostic evaluation, and management of bone and joint infections in this population.

  • Infectious Disease Updates

    Clostridioides difficile: Reduced Susceptibility to Vancomycin? Antibiotics Reduce Culture Yield in Joint Infection

  • Unhurried Patient Care

    Unhurried conversations during patient encounters can improve outcomes for patients and enhance career satisfaction of physicians. Specific communication strategies can foster unhurried conversations without adding undue time to clinical care.

  • Procalcitonin-Guided Care Leads to Shorter Duration of Antibiotics in Sepsis Patients

    In this multicenter, intervention-concealed, randomized clinical trial of 2,760 critically ill patients hospitalized with sepsis, the use of a daily procalcitonin-guided protocol resulted in shorter antibiotic duration as compared with standard care, without a significant difference in 28-day all-cause mortality. There was no significant difference in antibiotic duration between patients managed with a daily C-reactive protein-guided protocol and standard care, and the difference in all-cause mortality between these two groups was inconclusive.

  • Aeromonas Infections — Do Not Go Near the Water

    Infection with Aeromonas mostly involves skin and soft tissue and traumatic wounds occurring with exposure to water contaminated by the organism. The organism often is resistant to carbapenems because of the presence of a chromosomal carbapenemase, while often remaining susceptible to third-generation cephalosporins.

  • Fidaxomicin Is More Clinically Effective than Vancomycin for C. difficile Infection

    There is a lack of real-world data on using fidaxomicin for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). A retrospective, single-center study found that treatment of CDI with fidaxomicin leads to reduced clinical failure compared to oral vancomycin.

  • Pink Eye: Do Antibiotics Matter?

    Acute infectious conjunctivitis, commonly referred to as pink eye, is common in children and is caused by bacteria more often than by viruses. Nonetheless, neither the clinical course of uncomplicated cases nor the spread of infection to peers is significantly altered by treatment with topical antibiotics or by exclusion of infected children from daycare and school settings.

  • Outpatient CAP Treatment in Adults: Narrower Spectrum Therapy Is Better Tolerated

    Examination of a large database led to the conclusion that treatment of community-acquired pneumonia in outpatients with narrower-spectrum agents (macrolides or doxycycline) was associated with similar clinical outcomes but with a lower incidence of adverse effects when compared to broader-spectrum therapy.

  • Infectious Disease Updates

    MDRO Colonization Increases Risk of Infection; Peri-Operative Ertapenem; Whole-Genome Sequencing Shows Negligible Transmission of Clostridioides difficile in the ICU