A Ten-Year Retrospective Survey of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns among Salmonella enterica subsp. Serovar Typhi Isolates in Ontario, Canada.

The epidemiology and treatment of typhoid fever are complicated by the emergence and spread of Salmonella enterica subsp. serovar Typhi lineages with resistance to many antimicrobial agents critical for therapy. Current information on the susceptibility patterns of S.

Impact of Rejection of Low-Quality Wound Swabs on Antimicrobial Prescribing: A Controlled Before-After Study.

In this controlled before-after study, wound swabs were only processed for culture, identification, and susceptibility testing if a quality metric, determined by the Q score, was met. Rejection of low-quality wound swabs resulted in a modest decrease in reflexive antibiotic initiation while reducing laboratory workload and generating few clinician requests.