The Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control today shows that while recent federal investments to combat antibiotic resistance have had meaningful impacts, the continued spread of infections that are not effectively treated by existing medicines pose deadly threats to patients and public health.
Last year we adopted inclusion, diversity, access, and equity (IDA&E) as a core value of IDSA. We tasked a newly created IDA&E Task Force with developing guiding principles to ensure that the Society’s governance structure reflects the many faces of our membership.
Among patients with severe sepsis, early consultation with an ID specialist was associated with 40 percent lower mortality, a new study in Open Forum Infectious Diseases finds.
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