Shorter is better: The case for short antibiotic courses for common infections in solid organ transplant recipients

What is the optimal antimicrobial prophylaxis to prevent postoperative infectious complications after liver transplantation? – A systematic review of the literature and expert panel recommendations

(2022) Isabel Campos‐Varela et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Patients with transplantation have reduced mortality in bacteraemia: Analysis of data from a randomised trial

(2022) Fergus Hamilton et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTION

Antimicrobial stewardship in high-risk febrile neutropenia patients

(2022) Adrien Contejean et al.   Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control

Impact of pre‐transplant carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacterales colonization and/or infection on solid organ transplant outcomes

(2021) Sarah Taimur et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Surgical Infection Society 2020 Updated Guidelines on the Management of Complicated Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

(2021) Therese M. Duane et al.   Surgical Infections

Appropriate Use of Short-Course Antibiotics in Common Infections: Best Practice Advice From the American College of Physicians

(2021) Rachael A. Lee et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Discontinuing β-lactam treatment after 3 days for patients with community-acquired pneumonia in non-critical care wards (PTC): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial

(2021) Aurélien Dinh et al.   LANCET

White paper on antimicrobial stewardship in solid organ transplant recipients

(2021) Miranda So et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

Seven-versus 14-day course of antibiotics for the treatment of bloodstream infections by Enterobacterales: a randomized, controlled trial

(2021) José Molina et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Effect of 7 vs 14 Days of Antibiotic Therapy on Resolution of Symptoms Among Afebrile Men With Urinary Tract Infection

(2021) Dimitri M. Drekonja et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Early Clostridioides difficile infection characterizations, risks, and outcomes in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell and solid organ transplant recipients

(2021) Karam M. Obeid et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

Estimating daily antibiotic harms: an umbrella review with individual study meta-analysis

(2021) Jennifer Curran et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Short versus prolonged courses of antimicrobial therapy for patients with uncomplicated Pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infection: a retrospective study

(2021) Moonsuk Bae et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

Prevalence and outcomes of Clostridioides difficile infection in liver transplant recipients

(2021) Nicholas C. Kortt et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

The outcomes of Clostridioides difficile infection in inpatient liver transplant population

(2021) Waseem Amjad et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

Short versus prolonged antibiotic treatment for complicated urinary tract infection after kidney transplantation

(2021) Shiri Avni‐Nachman et al.   TRANSPLANT INTERNATIONAL

Safety and Efficacy of Antibiotic De-escalation and Discontinuation in High-Risk Hematological Patients With Febrile Neutropenia: A Single-Center Experience

(2021) Anke Verlinden et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Antibiotic Exposure and Risk for Hospital-Associated Clostridioides difficile Infection

(2020) Brandon J. Webb et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

De-escalation of empiric broad spectrum antibiotics in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients with febrile neutropenia

(2020) Lindsey Rearigh et al.   ANNALS OF HEMATOLOGY

Effect of C-Reactive Protein–Guided Antibiotic Treatment Duration, 7-Day Treatment, or 14-Day Treatment on 30-Day Clinical Failure Rate in Patients With Uncomplicated Gram-Negative Bacteremia

(2020) Elodie von Dach et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Duration of Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Orthotopic Liver Transplantation Patients

(2020) Aiman Bandali et al.   Progress in Transplantation

Optimal Treatment Duration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infections in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients

(2020) Flaminia Olearo et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Antibiotics versus no therapy in kidney transplant recipients with asymptomatic bacteriuria (BiRT): a pragmatic, multicentre, randomized, controlled trial

(2020) Julien Coussement et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Effectiveness of short vs long‐course perioperative antibiotics in lung transplant recipients with donor positive respiratory cultures

(2020) Lindsey T. Groff et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

Urinary tract infections in solid organ transplant recipients: Guidelines from the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice

(2019) Jason D. Goldman et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Antibiotic Therapy for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bloodstream Infections: How Long is Long Enough?

(2019) Valeria Fabre et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: 2019 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of Americaa

(2019) Lindsay E Nicolle et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Impact of asymptomatic bacteriuria incidence and management post–kidney transplantation

(2019) Brian C. Bohn et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

Intraoperative Versus Extended Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Liver Transplant Surgery: A Randomized, Controlled Pilot Trial

(2019) Puja S. Berry et al.   LIVER TRANSPLANTATION

Antibiotic treatment versus no treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria in kidney transplant recipients: a multicenter randomized trial

(2019) Núria Sabé et al.   Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Duration of Antibiotic Therapy: Shorter Is Better

(2019) Brad Spellberg et al.   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official Clinical Practice Guideline of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2019) Joshua P. Metlay et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Antibiotic treatment for 6 days versus 12 days in patients with severe cellulitis: a multicentre randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial

(2019) D.R. Cranendonk et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Burden and Timeline of Infectious Diseases in the First Year After Solid Organ Transplantation in the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study

(2019) Christian van Delden et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Treatment duration for Escherichia coli bloodstream infection and outcomes: retrospective single-centre study

(2018) M. Giannella et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Short-course antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients treated for postoperative intra-abdominal infection: the DURAPOP randomised clinical trial

(2018) Philippe Montravers et al.   INTENSIVE CARE MEDICINE

The challenge of urinary tract infections in renal transplant recipients

(2018) Ian Hollyer et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

7 versus 14 days of antibiotic treatment for critically ill patients with bloodstream infection: a pilot randomized clinical trial

(2018) Nick Daneman et al.   Trials

Recurrence of urinary tract infections and development of urinary-specific antibiogram for kidney transplant recipients

(2018) Ghazwa B. Korayem et al.   Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Early discontinuation of empirical antibacterial therapy in febrile neutropenia: the ANTIBIOSTOP study

(2018) Lenaïg Le Clech et al.   Infectious Diseases

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Impact of donor lung pathogenic bacteria on patient outcomes in the immediate post-transplant period

(2018) Omar Ahmad et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

Seven versus fourteen Days of Antibiotic Therapy for uncomplicated Gram-negative Bacteremia: a Non-inferiority Randomized Controlled Trial

(2018) Dafna Yahav et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Short Course Antibiotic Therapy—Replacing Constantine Units with “Shorter Is Better”

(2018) Noah Wald-Dickler et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Duration of Exposure to Antipseudomonal β-Lactam Antibiotics in the Critically Ill and Development of New Resistance

(2018) Besu F. Teshome et al.   PHARMACOTHERAPY

Is 5 days of oral fluoroquinolone enough for acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis? The DTP randomized trial

(2017) A. Dinh et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

International ERS/ESICM/ESCMID/ALAT guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia

(2017) Antoni Torres et al.   EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL

Effect of antibiotic stewardship on the incidence of infection and colonisation with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Clostridium difficile infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2017) David Baur et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The Surgical Infection Society Revised Guidelines on the Management of Intra-Abdominal Infection

(2017) John E. Mazuski et al.   Surgical Infections

The antibiotic course has had its day

(2017) Martin J Llewelyn et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

The antibiotic course has had its day

(2017) Martin J Llewelyn et al.   BMJ-British Medical Journal

Optimisation of empirical antimicrobial therapy in patients with haematological malignancies and febrile neutropenia (How Long study): an open-label, randomised, controlled phase 4 trial

(2017) Manuela Aguilar-Guisado et al.   Lancet Haematology

Should Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Be Systematically Treated in Kidney Transplant Recipients? Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial

(2016) J. Origüen et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION

The New Antibiotic Mantra—“Shorter Is Better”

(2016) Brad Spellberg   JAMA Internal Medicine

Duration of Antibiotic Treatment in Community-Acquired Pneumonia

(2016) Ane Uranga et al.   JAMA Internal Medicine

Executive summary. 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)

(2015) Elisa Vidal et al.   ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA

Trial of Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Intraabdominal Infection

(2015) Robert G. Sawyer et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

(2014) Dennis L. Stevens et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Multidrug-resistant bacteria in solid organ transplant recipients

(2014) C. Cervera et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Tedizolid for 6 days versus linezolid for 10 days for acute bacterial skin and skin-structure infections (ESTABLISH-2): a randomised, double-blind, phase 3, non-inferiority trial

(2014) Gregory J Moran et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Incidence of nosocomial pneumonia and risk of recurrence after antimicrobial therapy in critically ill lung and heart-lung transplant patients

(2013) Daniela Dudau et al.   CLINICAL TRANSPLANTATION

A randomized controlled clinical trial of levofloxacin 750 mg versus 500 mg intravenous infusion in the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia

(2013) Xu Zhao et al.   DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Targeted therapy against multi-resistant bacteria in leukemic and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: guidelines of the 4th European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL-4, 2011)

(2013) D. Averbuch et al.   HAEMATOLOGICA

European guidelines for empirical antibacterial therapy for febrile neutropenic patients in the era of growing resistance: summary of the 2011 4th European Conference on Infections in Leukemia

(2013) D. Averbuch et al.   HAEMATOLOGICA

Tedizolid Phosphate vs Linezolid for Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections

(2013) Philippe Prokocimer et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Short-course Antibiotic Treatment for Community-acquired Alveolar Pneumonia in Ambulatory Children

(2013) David Greenberg et al.   PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL

Using the rate of bacterial clearance determined by real-time polymerase chain reaction as a timely surrogate marker to evaluate the appropriateness of antibiotic usage in critical patients with Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia*

(2012) Yu-Chung Chuang et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Losing ground

(2012) Ramin S. Herati et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Ciprofloxacin for 7 days versus 14 days in women with acute pyelonephritis: a randomised, open-label and double-blind, placebo-controlled, non-inferiority trial

(2012) Torsten Sandberg et al.   LANCET

Early-Onset Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Adults Randomized Clinical Trial: Comparison of 8 versus 15 Days of Antibiotic Treatment

(2012) Gilles Capellier et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial urinary tract infection after solid organ transplantation in the RESITRA cohort

(2012) E. Vidal et al.   Transplant Infectious Disease

Clostridium Difficile Colitis

(2012) Marylise Boutros et al.   TRANSPLANTATION

Cumulative Antibiotic Exposures Over Time and the Risk of Clostridium difficile Infection

(2011) V. Stevens et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Bloodstream Infection After Kidney Transplantation: Epidemiology, Microbiology, Associated Risk Factors, and Outcome

(2010) Moacyr Silva et al.   TRANSPLANTATION

BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009

(2009) W S Lim et al.   THORAX

A Double-Blind, Randomized Comparison of Levofloxacin 750 mg Once-Daily for Five Days With Ciprofloxacin 400/500 mg Twice-Daily for 10 Days for the Treatment of Complicated Urinary Tract Infections and Acute Pyelonephritis

(2008) Janet Peterson et al.   UROLOGY