Month: March 2021

Hypervirulent Klebsiella Infection – It’s So Sticky!

Klebsiella pneumoniae is an organism that is typically seen as the cause of pneumonia in people with diabetes and alcoholics, and it also causes nosocomial bacteremia and urinary tract infections. This is a fairly common organism to deal with in the inpatient setting, however one particular type of Klebsiella has been more frequently described in

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Weekly Articles 3/14/2021

Richard G Wunderink, Antoine Roquilly, Martin Croce, Daniel Rodriguez Gonzalez, Satoshi Fujimi, Joan R Butterton, Natasha Broyde, Myra W Popejoy, Jason Y Kim, Carisa De Anda, A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind Study Comparing Tedizolid Phosphate and Linezolid for Treatment of Ventilated Gram-Positive Hospital-Acquired or Ventilator-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia, Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2021;, ciab032, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciab032 This is

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