Influenza surveillance and response remains an ongoing, and changing, challenge-and pandemic preparedness goes well beyond stockpiling vaccines, noted speakers at IDWeek 2015’s closing plenary session.
Long-term testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular events (CVE) and death among HIV-positive men, authors of a retrospective chart review reported at IDWeek 2015.
For treatment of uncomplicated, outpatient urinary tract infection (UTI), fewer failures were seen with empiric cephalexin than with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP-SMX) or amoxicillin, researchers presented at IDWeek 2015.
Children with uncomplicated cellulitis may be safely treated at home, as they are unlikely to have bacteremia, Laila F. Ibrahim, MBBChBAO, from the Royal Children’s Hospital @ Home Department in Parkville, Australia, reported at IDWeek 2015.
Patients with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) coinfection are discontinuing first-line antitubercular therapy (ATT) at disturbingly high rates because of side effects like skin reactions, gastrointestinal symptoms, and hepatotoxicity, according to study findings reported at IDWeek 2015.
Treatment with fluoroquinolones was definitely associated with subsequent tendon ruptures, and was found to be a possible contributor in aortic aneurysms, presented Nick Daneman, MD, MSc, from the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at IDWeek 2015.
Introduction of early childhood immunization with the pneumococcal conjugate PCV13 vaccine has rapidly reduced the incidence of pediatric consolidated pneumonia (CP) cases in Argentina, according to findings from a prospective single-municipality population-based study reported at IDWeek 2015.
Among HIV-positive patients, hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection, low baseline CD4 counts and other factors increase the risk of tenofovir-associated renal failure, reported authors of a retrospective cohort study presented at IDWeek 2015.
There was no statistically significant difference in clinical outcomes between patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia who were treated with linezolid and those treated with vancomycin except mortality, reported ManShan Celica Tong, PharmD, MPH, from Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, at IDWeek 2015.
The combination of ceftolozane and tazobactam showed comparable outcomes to levofloxacin in the treatment of complicated pyelonephritis, according to results from the Phase 3 ASEPCT-cUTI trial presented at IDWeek 2015.
