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Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol
August 2024
Department of Pharmacy, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Objective: Patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCT) are at increased risk for infection (CDI). The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of oral vancomycin prophylaxis (OVP) for CDI in HSCT patients.
Design: Single-center, retrospective cohort.
Infect Dis Ther
January 2025
Global Research and Medical, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Kastrup, Denmark.
Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (rCDI) is a major cause of increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Fecal-microbiota-based therapies are recommended for rCDI on completion of standard-of-care (SoC) antibiotics to prevent further recurrence: these therapies include conventional fecal-microbiota transplantation and the US Food and Drug Administration-approved therapies REBYOTA® (RBL) and VOWST Oral Spores™ (VOS). As an alternative to microbiota-based therapies, bezlotoxumab, a monoclonal antibody, is used as adjuvant to SoC antibiotics to prevent rCDI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Gastroenterol
January 2025
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA.
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) is common after antibiotic exposure and presents significant morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs worldwide. The rising incidence of recurrent CDI, driven by hypervirulent strains, widespread antibiotic use and increased community transmission, has led to an urgent need for novel therapeutic strategies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Antimicrob Chemother
January 2025
Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Joint institution of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Institut für Hygiene und Umweltmedizin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Hindenburgdamm 27, 12203 Berlin, Germany.
Background: Antibiotic consumption is considered an important risk factor for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI). This ecological analysis investigates the influence of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in statutory health insurance (SHI) on the admission prevalence of CDI in German hospitals participating in voluntary CDI surveillance through the hospital infection surveillance system (Krankenhaus-Infektions-Surveillance-System; KISS).
Methods: The annual CDI admission prevalence of a hospital at the federal state level was associated with the outpatient antibiotic consumption of the corresponding federal state.
BMC Palliat Care
January 2025
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, and Center for Infectious Diseases Research, American University of Beirut Medical Center, PO Box 11-0236, Riad , Beirut, 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Background: The overuse of antimicrobials is prevalent in palliative oncology care, with up to 86.9% of terminal cancer patients receiving these agents during end-of-life care. This overutilization stems from recurrent infections due to immunosuppression, malnutrition, and frequent hospitalizations, as well as difficulty differentiating infection-related symptoms from cancer-related complications.
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