Antibiotic Prophylaxis

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A multi-institutional cohort study confirming the risks of Clostridium difficile infection associated with prolonged antibiotic prophylaxis. 
  • A pilot study to determine the feasibility of continuous cefazolin infusion. 
  • A systematic review of antibiotic use and infection in breast reconstruction: what is the evidence? 
  • An outbreak of pneumococcal pneumonia among military personnel at high risk: control by low-dose azithromycin postexposure chemoprophylaxis. 
  • Antenatal receipt of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine does not exacerbate pregnancy-associated malaria despite the expansion of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum: clinical outcomes from the QuEERPAM study. 
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Incidence of Endocarditis Before and After the 2007 AHA Recommendations. 
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis following Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction: What Is the Evidence? 
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Antibiotic Utilization Before Endourological Surgery for Urolithiasis: Endourological Society Survey Results. 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis and non-group B streptococcal neonatal sepsis. 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis for hemodialysis access placement. 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis in interventional radiology. 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis in percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy. 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis in pregnancy-benefit without harm? 
  • Antibiotic prophylaxis in vascular and interventional radiology. 
  • Antibiotic use and the prevention and management of infectious complications in stone disease. 
  • Antibiotics for the Prevention and Treatment of Postsurgical Obstetric Infections. 
  • Antibiotics in the pediatric intensive care unit: have we finally figured out that less is more? 
  • Antimicrobial prophylaxis and outpatient management of fever and neutropenia in adults treated for malignancy: American Society of Clinical Oncology clinical practice guideline. 
  • Are Prophylactic Postoperative Antibiotics Necessary for Immediate Breast Reconstruction? Results of a Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial. 
  • Association of Duration and Type of Surgical Prophylaxis With Antimicrobial-Associated Adverse Events. 
  • Azithromycin chemoprophylaxis. 
  • Bacterial uropathogens and antibiotic susceptibility of positive urine cultures in women with pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence. 
  • Bacteriologic features of surgical site infections following breast surgery. 
  • Carbapenems for surgical prophylaxis? 
  • Cefazolin prophylaxis in obese women undergoing cesarean delivery: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Chlorhexidine gluconate 0.12% oral rinse reduces the incidence of total nosocomial respiratory infection and nonprophylactic systemic antibiotic use in patients undergoing heart surgery. 
  • Clinical significance of bacterial cultures from 28 autologous islet cell transplant solutions. 
  • Combined Mechanical and Oral Antibiotic Bowel Preparation Reduces Incisional Surgical Site Infection and Anastomotic Leak Rates After Elective Colorectal Resection: An Analysis of Colectomy-Targeted ACS NSQIP. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of defending against bioterrorism: a comparison of vaccination and antibiotic prophylaxis against anthrax. 
  • Current practice among plastic surgeons of antibiotic prophylaxis and closed-suction drains in breast reconstruction: experience, evidence, and implications for postoperative care. 
  • Developing Process Maps as a Tool for a Surgical Infection Prevention Quality Improvement Initiative in Resource-Constrained Settings. 
  • Development of CRISPR as an Antiviral Strategy to Combat SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza. 
  • Diagnosis and management of group B streptococcus in pregnancy. 
  • Disseminated Mycobacterium kansasii disease in complete DiGeorge syndrome. 
  • Does preoperative topical antimicrobial scrub reduce positive surgical site culture rates in men undergoing artificial urinary sphincter placement? 
  • Effects of antimicrobial prophylaxis on asymptomatic bacteriuria and predictors of failure in patients with multiple sclerosis. 
  • Efficacy of antibiotic prophylaxis in children with vesicoureteral reflux: systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Electronic reminders for intraoperative antibiotic re-dosing. 
  • Experience with intrawound vancomycin powder for posterior cervical fusion surgery. 
  • Fluconazole Prophylaxis for the Prevention of Candidiasis in Premature Infants: A Meta-analysis Using Patient-level Data. 
  • Fluconazole prophylaxis for prevention of invasive candidiasis in infants. 
  • Fluoroquinolone prophylaxis reduces febrile neutropenia, bloodstream infections from mucosal translocations, and intensive care admissions in high risk hematological patients, a single center experience. 
  • Fungal infection prevention after hematopoietic cell transplantation. 
  • Gentamicin-collagen sponge for infection prophylaxis in colorectal surgery. 
  • Group B Streptococci Screening Before Repeat Cesarean Delivery: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. 
  • Group B Streptococcus and Escherichia coli infections in the intensive care nursery in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis. 
  • Group B streptococcal meningitis: cerebrospinal fluid parameters in the era of intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis. 
  • Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of postoperative infections. 
  • Halting a pneumococcal pneumonia outbreak among United States Marine Corps trainees. 
  • Impact of Reduced Preincision Antibiotic Infusion Time on Surgical Site Infection Rates: A Retrospective Cohort Study. 
  • Impact of the NICE guideline recommending cessation of antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of infective endocarditis: before and after study. 
  • Infectious complications after pulsatile-flow and continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation. 
  • Infectious complications after small bowel transplantation in adults: an update. 
  • Infectious complications of lung transplantation. 
  • Infectious complications. 
  • Infective endocarditis: a comprehensive overview. 
  • Influence of Single-Dose Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Early-Onset Pneumonia in High-Risk Intubated Patients. 
  • Inhalation with Tobramycin to improve healing of tracheobronchial reconstruction. 
  • Intravenous amoxicillin/clavulanate for the prevention of bacteraemia following dental procedures: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Is There a Difference in Infection Risk Between Single and Multiple Doses of Prophylactic Antibiotics? A Meta-analysis. 
  • Lithotrites and postoperative fever: does lithotrite type matter? Results from the Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Global Study. 
  • Management of sickle cell disease: summary of the 2014 evidence-based report by expert panel members. 
  • Management of urinary tract infection in solid organ transplant recipients: Consensus statement of the Group for the Study of Infection in Transplant Recipients (GESITRA) of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC) and the Spanish Network for Research in Infectious Diseases (REIPI). 
  • Management practices and major infections after cardiac surgery. 
  • Nocardia infection in lung transplant recipients. 
  • Nocardia infections in the transplanted host. 
  • Novel approaches to clinical trials: device-related infections. 
  • One size does not fit all: involve orthopaedic implant patients in deciding whether to use prophylactic antibiotics with dental procedures. 
  • Open fractures of the tibial shaft. 
  • Perioperative Antibiotic Choice in Labored versus Unlabored Cesareans and Risk of Postcesarean Infectious Morbidity. 
  • Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Single Dose Is as Effective as Multiple Doses. 
  • Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Micafungin in Infants Supported With Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. 
  • Physicians' recommendations to patients for use of antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent endocarditis. 
  • Population Pharmacokinetics of Cefazolin in Serum and Adipose Tissue From Overweight and Obese Women Undergoing Cesarean Delivery. 
  • Post-surgical infections and perioperative antibiotics usage in pediatric genitourinary procedures. 
  • Predictors of successful clinical and laboratory outcomes in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis undergoing endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. 
  • Prevention of late PJI. 
  • Prevention of surgical site infection: beyond SCIP. 
  • Prevention of surgical-site infections. 
  • Preventive Care Delivery to Young Children With Sickle Cell Disease. 
  • Prophylactic use of intraoperative vancomycin powder and postoperative infection: an analysis of microbiological patterns in 1200 consecutive surgical cases. 
  • Providing Safe and Effective Preventative Antiretroviral Prophylaxis to HIV-exposed Newborns via a Novel Drug Delivery System in Tanzania. 
  • Pulmonary infiltrates in non-HIV immunocompromised patients: a diagnostic approach using non-invasive and bronchoscopic procedures. 
  • Purulent Inflatable Penile Prostheses Can Be Safely Immediately Salvaged in Insulin-Dependent Diabetics. 
  • Quality measures in high-risk pregnancies: Executive Summary of a Cooperative Workshop of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 
  • Randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of oral azithromycin prophylaxis against respiratory infections in a high-risk, young adult population. 
  • Reply: Antibiotic Prophylaxis following Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction: What Is the Evidence? 
  • Reply: Intravenous Drug Use-Associated Endocarditis Complicating Research of Antibiotic Prophylaxis and Guideline Recommendations. 
  • Respiratory therapies in the critical care setting. Should aerosolized antibiotics be administered to prevent or treat ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients who do not have cystic fibrosis? 
  • Risk factors for gram-negative bacterial surgical site infection: do allergies to antibiotics increase risk? 
  • Risk factors for group B streptococcal disease in neonates of mothers with negative antenatal testing. 
  • Selective bowel decontamination in hospitalized patients awaiting liver transplantation. 
  • Simultaneous pancreas--kidney transplantation: recent experience at the University of Wisconsin. 
  • Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT): year 2000 outcomes. 
  • Successful prophylaxis against Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in HIV-infected children using smaller than recommended dosages of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. 
  • Surgical Site Infections: An Update. 
  • Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis: is the glass half empty or more than 99% full? 
  • Surgical site infection prophylaxis strategies for cardiothoracic surgery: a decision-analytic model. 
  • Surgical site infections following bariatric surgery in community hospitals: a weighty concern? 
  • Surgical site infections. 
  • The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Use of Bowel Preparation in Elective Colon and Rectal Surgery. 
  • The Effect of Blood Loss on Cefazolin Levels in Women Undergoing Cesarean Delivery. 
  • The association between continuous antibiotic prophylaxis and UTI from birth until initial postnatal imaging evaluation among newborns with antenatal hydronephrosis. 
  • The changing epidemiology of infective endocarditis: the paradox of prophylaxis in the current and future eras. 
  • The effect of surgical delay on acute infection following 554 open fractures in children. 
  • The epidemiology and outcomes of invasive Candida infections among organ transplant recipients in the United States: results of the Transplant-Associated Infection Surveillance Network (TRANSNET). 
  • Treatment and prophylaxis of invasive candidiasis. 
  • Trends in endocarditis hospitalizations at US children's hospitals: impact of the 2007 American Heart Association Antibiotic Prophylaxis Guidelines. 
  • Trends in infective endocarditis hospitalisations at United States children's hospitals from 2003 to 2014: impact of the 2007 American Heart Association antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines. 
  • Two regimens of azithromycin prophylaxis against community-acquired respiratory and skin/soft-tissue infections among military trainees. 
  • Unwarranted variability in antibiotic prophylaxis for cesarean section delivery: a national survey of anesthesiologists. 
  • Urinary tract infections in the infant. 
  • Use of Cefazolin for Group B Streptococci Prophylaxis in Women Reporting a Penicillin Allergy Without Anaphylaxis. 
  • Use of prophylactic antibiotics in women with previable prelabor rupture of membranes. 
  • Vancomycin levels in human aqueous humour after intravenous and subconjunctival administration. 
  • Vesicoureteral reflux in children with urachal anomalies. 
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  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases