Antibiotic Use, Antibiotic Resistance, and Anti Stewardship – A Global Public Consequences

A Global Approach to Antibiotic Stewardship

The 27th ECCMID meeting, organized by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, convened in Vienna, Austria, from Apr 22 through 25, 2017. This event attracted more than 12,000 multidisciplinary international scientists, clinicians, and public health experts eager to learn about contemporary research, therapeutic approaches, and strategies in the battle against infe...

Antibiotic Stewardship without an Antibiotic Stewardship Program?

To promote heightened vigilance concerning antibiotic agents in Canadian hospitals, Accreditation Canada has implemented antibiotic stewardship as a required organizational practice.1 Antibiotic stewardship is the process of ensuring that only necessary and appropriate antibiotic agents are used and that their use is appropriate for each individual patient. It involves optimizing all steps of a...

Antibiotic resistance: consequences of inaction.

Bacterial resistance presents therapeutic dilemmas to clinicians worldwide. The warnings were there long ago, but too few people heeded them. Thus an emerging problem has grown to a crisis. Resistance is an ecological phenomenon stemming from the response of bacteria to the widespread use of antibiotics and their presence in the environment. While determining the consequences of inaction on the...

Public Health Consequences of Antibiotic Use for Growth Promotion

Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship: A Growing Frontier—Combining Myxovirus Resistance Protein A With Other Biomarkers to Improve Antibiotic Use

Background The majority of oral antibiotics are prescribed in outpatient primary and urgent care clinics for acute respiratory infections. Effective antibiotic stewardship must include proper prescribing for outpatients as well as for those in a hospital or long-term care facility. Methods Major databases, including MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library, were searched for prospective human clinica...