Rational Use of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infection
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 11344
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Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial therapy is administered to one-fifth to two-thirds of hospitalized patients. Globally, inappropriate antibiotic use is on the rise in hospital settings, including general wards and intensive care units. Bloodstream infections treated with antibiotics inappropriately can result in increased antimicrobial consumption, expenditures, hospital stays, costs, antimicrobial resistance, and mortality in hospitalization. Nosocomial infections induced by multidrug-resistant organisms, both Gram-positive cocci and Gram-negative bacilli, are increasingly widespread in hospital settings. Microbiologists and new technology can identify pathogen susceptibility patterns and organisms to prevent fatalities. However, clinical doctors typically order antibiotics based on bacterial culture even if there is no evidence of infection despite the pathogens being isolated. We are pleased to invite you to submit articles related to antibiotic stewardship, education, antibiotic resistance, bloodstream infections in intensive care units, different pathogens causing bloodstream infections, indication of antibiotic use, antimicrobial consumption, and expenditure. This Special Issue, “Rational Use of Antibiotics in Bloodstream Infection”, welcomes all submissions from a variety of fields that use any method to reduce inappropriate antibiotic use, antibiotic resistance, and in-hospital mortality through improvement of the use of antibiotics.
Dr. Tsung-Yu Huang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bloodstream infection
- bacteremia
- rational antibiotic usage
- antibiotic resistance
- multidrug resistant organism
- intensive care units
- infectious disease physician
- antibiotic stewardship
- education
- de-escalation