To date combination therapy for infections by CR GNB is not supported by evidence from a series of adequately sized RCTs. However, pre-clinical data and emerging clinical evidence from observational ...

While attention has been brought to the issue and some progress has been made, hospital-acquired infections are still a major problem. Every day, around one in 31 hospital patients get an infection.

Under a microscope, this drug-resistant superbug looks as benign as a handful of pebbles. Yet carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, or CRAB, is a nightmare for hospitals worldwide, as it kills ...

Analyses were adjusted for hospital characteristics, including bed size, U.S. Census division, urban or rural designation, teaching status, month of hospitalization, patient age distributions, and ...

A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that a surprising proportion of cases of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) are found in isolates from patients in ...

Antimicrobial resistance to common bacteria is rising worldwide, eroding the effectiveness of last-line antibiotics against ...

Trial comes up negative, but shorter hospital stays observed in carbapenem-resistant cases ...

In the United States, infections from NDM-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales have surged by 460% between 2019 and 2023, according to new federal data, turning a once-rare “nightmare ...

Superbugs are the dastardly villains of the medical world: they’re hard to catch and kill, and they wreak havoc on the helpless. This week, CNN reported the emergence of carbapenem-resistant ...

Hospitals in Ukraine are now battling an "alarming increase" in germs with resistance to the last-ditch antibiotic medications used to treat the infections, a study published by the U.S. Centers for ...