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Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance – A European Report Recommends Deja-Vu Action

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Sometimes one comes across a particularly well-written policy document which summarizes the status quo of antimicrobial resistance by connecting and synthesizing data from all kinds of sources into a coherent framework. The 2015 OECD Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in G7 Countries and Beyond: Economic Issues, Policies and Options for Action Continue reading Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance – A European Report Recommends Deja-Vu Action→

Recent Sepsis Literature

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SIRS, sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock is a continuum, a crescendo of signs and symptoms associated with an infection uncontrolled by host responses. An avalanche or cascade of seemingly unstoppable events occurs often in a matter of hours which has defied causal intervention but for which symptomatic treatment has improved Continue reading Recent Sepsis Literature→

IV Fosfomycin To The Rescue – And To a Place Near You

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A recent letter to the Editor by Simkins et al. is worth reviewing [1]. The authors describe the complicated course of a patient who suffered graft rejection after liver transplantation, received broad-spectrum antibiotics during prolonged hospitalization and eventually had a bloodstream infection with carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) which was resistant Continue reading IV Fosfomycin To The Rescue – And To a Place Near You→