Pseudo-Outbreak Associated With an Antibiotic Management Program

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...

An outbreak of hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with antibiotic treatment of hospital inpatients for dysentery.

Shiga toxin (ST) from Shigella dysenteriae type 1 is accepted as a cause of hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS); however, the reasons why HUS develops in only some infected patients are not clear (1). The possibility that antibiotic therapy is associated with the development of HUS has been explored for S. dysenteriae type 1 and for Escherichia coli O157:H7 (2–4). In May 1993, during an outbreak of...

An outbreak of abortion associated with equine rhinopneumonitis viral infection in Iran

Investigation of Mycobacterium Pseudo-outbreak

Trends in antibiotic utilization in Vancouver associated with a community education program on antibiotic use.

OBJECTIVE "Do Bugs Need Drugs" (DBND) is a community education program that was implemented in British Columbia (BC) in September 2005 to decrease inappropriate antibiotic use. This study conducted descriptive analyses of the association between DBND and changes in overall, pediatric, drug-specific, and indication-specific antibiotic utilization rates in Vancouver, BC. METHODS Utilization dat...