Impact of an outpatient parenteral antimicrobial treatment (OPAT) as part of a paediatric-specific PROA program.

Introduction: Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial treatment (OPAT) is an alternative to in-patient care in carefully selected patients. This study presents a self-administration OPAT program integrated within the pediatric antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) in a pediatric tertiary care center.

Material And Methods: Descriptive, retrospective and unicentric study.

Group A β-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngotonsillitis outbreak.

The aim was to describe an outbreak of group A β-hemolytic streptococcal pharyngotonsillitis in health care professionals. This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of 17 clients who dined at the same table in a restaurant in Barcelona in July 2012. The frequency, timing and severity of symptoms were analyzed, as were demographic variables and others concerning the food ingested.

[Neisseria gonorrhoeae: antimicrobial resistance and study of population dynamics. Situation in Barcelona in 2011].

Background: Due to the high rates of antimicrobial resistance to certain antibiotics, together with the emergence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) with reduced susceptibility and resistance to third-generation cephalosporins, gonococcal infection is becoming a public health problem. The objectives of the study were: To keep track of the antimicrobial susceptibility of NG strains obtained from January to August 2011. To study the population dynamics.