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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 +5 more
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A Comparison of a Solid Organ Transplant Population-Specific Antibiogram With the Hospital-Wide Antibiogram. [PDF]
Transpl Infect DisABSTRACT Background Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are vulnerable to infections with multidrug‐resistant organisms, and they often do not receive adequate empiric antimicrobials for serious Gram‐negative infections.
Aziz Ali A +6 more
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Creation and Distribution of 2021–2023 New York City Regional Antibiograms [PDF]
Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare EpidemiologyBackground: New York City (NYC) is vulnerable to antimicrobial resistant pathogens given its population density, mobile population of travelers and immigrants, and multiple health systems in close proximity.
William Greendyke +4 more
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Hospital antibiogram: A necessity
Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2010 The hospital antibiogram is a periodic summary of antimicrobial susceptibilities of local bacterial isolates submitted to the hospital's clinical microbiology laboratory. Antibiograms are often used by clinicians to assess local susceptibility rates, as an aid in selecting empiric antibiotic therapy, and in monitoring resistance trends over time within
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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 +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 +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 +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 +4 more
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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 +3 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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