Authors: Martha Powell, Future Science Group
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Pick of the Posters
1. Quantifying the drivers of antimicrobial resistance in a large hospital group: a metapopulation study, by Shapiro JT, which collected diagnostic antibiograms from 23,199 ward admission across 523 wards from four hospitals in Lyon France. The team measured infection prevalence and responses to antibiotic consumption, ward connectivity and ward size, concluding the prevalence of multidrug-resistant infections in hospitals responds as much to inter-ward connectivity as to antibiotic consumption.
2. Cranial surgical site infections with Cutubacterium acnes, by Prozan L from Tel viv Sourasky Medical Center, carried out a single-center, retrospective, unmatched case-control study to compare the clinical features and outcomes of post-neurosurgery surgical site infections with C. acnes versus aerobic pathogens. The authors concluded that C. acnes surgical site infections after neurosurgery are associated with significant morbidity and neurological sequale, compared with highly pathogenic aerobic bacteria, and that C. acnes should be suspected when infection occurs late (>14 days) after surgery.
Best of social media #ECCMID2019
Sites which do monitoring of emerging #AMR in response to mass azithromycin treatment should be supported to use advanced #diagnostic tools and #metagenomics through capacity building, Ines Mack UKBB #ECCMID2019 pic.twitter.com/o1s0XFhXaW
— Till Bachmann (@BachmannTill) April 16, 2019
Dr Gauri Rao @lab_rao from @UNCPharmacy now up in Hall J.
Talking on incorporatinghost immune response into PK/PD for anti-infectives. #ECCMID2019 pic.twitter.com/Rx2C5uxVu1— David van Duin (@davidvanduin) April 16, 2019
Very proud of my colleague @VanHeijl, who presents the CAP-PACT study on antibiotic stewardship in Community-acquired pneumonia at #ECCMID2019. She shows that ABS really works to reduce broad spectrum antibiotics use! pic.twitter.com/8prA7a6Aqg
— Kelly Hendriks (@KellyHendriks8) April 16, 2019
It was a great opportunity to present an #cutaneous #anthrax case at the #clinical grandrounds! Special thanks to our great experts: @jesusrbano @davidantibiotic #ECCMID2019 pic.twitter.com/NLLnyixYZR
— cansu cimen (@CimenCansu) April 16, 2019
