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Antimicrobial stewardship and antibiograms: importance of moving beyond traditional antibiograms [PDF]

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 2021
The rapid evolution of resistance, particularly among Gram-negative bacteria, requires appropriate identification of patients at risk followed by administration of appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy.
Kenneth P. Klinker, Levita K. Hidayat, C. Andrew DeRyke, Daryl D. DePestel, Mary Motyl, Karri A. Bauer   +5 more
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An analysis of the value-added of antibiogram subgroup stratification [PDF]

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
Background Stratified antibiograms are recommended to guide empiric clinical treatment. However, which strata to focus on, the limited number of isolates in identified strata, and the heavy associated workload all pose challenges.
Connie T. Y. Xie, Samantha Martinez, Ceylon V. Simon, Susan M. Poutanen   +3 more
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Creating an electronic antibiogram using visualization software: Easily updatable and removes the need for yearly manual review

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Background: Previously, our hospital manually built a static antibiogram from a surveillance system (VigiLanz) culture report. In 2019, a collaboration between the antimicrobial stewardship team (AST) and the infection control (IC) team set out to ...
Ashley Dauphin, Christopher McCoy, Robert Bowden, Matthew Lee, Howard Gold, Ryan Chapin   +5 more
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Providing value to patients and providers via a pediatric statewide antibiogram in South Carolina

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Objective: Antimicrobial stewardship has special challenges in particular populations and facilities, including pediatrics. We sought to augment the information available to antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) by created a cumulative statewide ...
Pamela Bailey, Kayla Antosz, Robert Daniels, Andrew B. Gainey, Anna Kathryn Burch   +4 more
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AntibiogramDSM: a combined local antibiogram and educational intervention

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2023
Objective: To describe the development of a combined local antibiogram and assess its utility in an educational intervention. Design: Retrospective analysis of a combined, multi-healthcare system antibiogram with an educational intervention and pre ...
Andrew R. Miesner, Benjamin Williamson, Amanda M. Bushman   +2 more
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Detection of Salmonella spp. in exotic pigeons of North Kerala and its antibiogram [PDF]

Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, 2021
Pigeon breeding has transformed from being a mere hobby to becoming established as an industry. The increased trade of pigeons inadvertently invites the risk of dissemination of infections including zoonoses like salmonellosis.
Maria Elsa Mathews, R. L. Rathish, P. M. Deepa, K. Vijayakumar, Lijo John   +4 more
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Clinical Profile of Patients and Antibiogram of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates in a Tertiary Care Hospital, Central India

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2023
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a remarkable opportunistic pathogen responsible for a great proportion of hospital-associated infections and the high prevalence of resistance towards many classes of antibiotics makes the treatment challenging ...
Prashanth K. Guddeti, Harshada Shah, Ramanath Karicheri, Luxmi Singh   +3 more
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Spanish Antibiogram Committee (COESANT) recommendations for cumulative antibiogram reports

Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed.), 2023
The Spanish Antibiogram Committee (Comité Español del Antibiograma, COESANT) presents in this document a series of recommendations intending to unify how cumulative antibiogram reports must be made in Clinical Microbiology Spanish laboratories. This article is based on the information included in the Clinical Microbiology Procedure No. 51, «Preparation
Larrosa, Nieves, Canut-Blasco, Andrés, Benito, Natividad, Cantón, Rafael, Cercenado, Emilia, Docobo-Pérez, Fernando, Fernández-Cuenca, Felipe, Fernández-Domínguez, Javier, Guinea, Jesús, López-Navas, Antonio, Moreno, Miguel Ángel, Morosini, Mª Isabel, Navarro, Ferrán, Martínez-Martínez, Luis, Oliver, Antonio   +14 more
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Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance Profile of E. coli and Salmonella spp. from Liver and Heart of Chickens

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology, 2022
E. coli and Salmonella spp. are responsible for causing colibacillosis and salmonellosis in chickens respectively. This research work was undertaken to study the prevalence of colibacillosis and salmonellosis in commercial chickens of Chattogram, and to ...
Sharna Halder, Sharmin Chowdhury, Shubhagata Das, M. Sohidullah, Sabuj Kanti Nath, Md. Masuduzzaman   +5 more
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Antibiogram of urinary tract pathogens in a tertiary hospital in south-south Nigeria

Ibom Medical Journal, 2021
Background: Antibiograms represent the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacterial isolates in a given healthcare setting and guides the selection of empiric antimicrobial therapy.
Onukak AE, Udoette SB, Ekuma AE
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