{"title":"Endovascular thrombectomy for stroke complicating infective endocarditis: what do we know and what gaps remain?","authors":"Ili Margalit","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144132178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting diagnostics: discarding the urine dipstick is way overdue.","authors":"Jacob Bodilsen, Henrik Nielsen, Jerome A Leis","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.04.029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.04.029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143985906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Large language models for antibiotic prescribing-moving the needle from 'parlour trick' to practical tool.","authors":"Katherine E Goodman, Pranita D Tamma","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144132181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy and effectiveness in infants': Author's reply.","authors":"Helene Kildegaard, Lone Graff Stensballe","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144101420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jochem B Buil, Eelco F J Meijer, Eric Dannaoui, Martin Hoenigl, Katrien Lagrou, Laurence Millon
{"title":"Revisiting diagnostics: implementing Mucorales PCR on blood for early and accurate detection of mucormycosis in high-risk patients.","authors":"Jochem B Buil, Eelco F J Meijer, Eric Dannaoui, Martin Hoenigl, Katrien Lagrou, Laurence Millon","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144092842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection: an open call for editorial fellows, 2026-2027.","authors":"Leonard Leibovici","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143970093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A plague like no other: beyond the buboes in Thucydides' account of the Plague of Athens.","authors":"Pere Domingo, Paula Prieto, Lluis Pons","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Athens Plague (430-427 BCE) was a devastating outbreak during the Peloponnesian War, described in detail by Thucydides. Although there is ongoing discussion, the specific cause of the epidemic remains undetermined.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>This review re-examines the Athenian Plague through historical and microbiological lenses, reassessing diagnostic hypotheses and proposing the plausibility of an ancient pneumonic strain of Yersinia pestis.</p><p><strong>Sources: </strong>We analysed Thucydides' original account alongside interdisciplinary literature from classical studies, paleopathology, epidemiology, and microbiology. We gathered sources from PubMed, JSTOR, Google Scholar, and the Perseus Digital Library, covering works from 1634 to 2024.</p><p><strong>Content: </strong>The clinical progression described by Thucydides-fever, conjunctivitis, bloody cough, gastrointestinal symptoms, rash, and high mortality-is compared with the presentations of typhoid fever, smallpox, epidemic typhus, measles, and plague. This review considers archaeological and paleogenomic findings, including controversial evidence of Salmonella enterica and the evolutionary history of Y. pestis. Special emphasis is placed on early strains of Y. pestis that lacked flea-borne virulence factors but may have caused pneumonic forms transmitted between humans.</p><p><strong>Implications: </strong>The epidemic's significant demographic, political, and social impacts highlight the broader consequences of infectious diseases in ancient history. This review emphasizes the necessity of employing a multidisciplinary approach in historical epidemiology and advocates for reassessing pneumonic plague as a likely contributor to the outbreak that occurred in Athens.</p>","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143971788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Connor Prosty, Dean Noutsios, Todd C Lee, Nick Daneman, Joshua S Davis, Nynke G L Jager, Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi, Anna L Goodman, Achim J Kaasch, Ilse Kouijzer, Brendan J McMullan, Emily G McDonald, Steven Y C Tong, Sean W X Ong
{"title":"Cefazolin vs. antistaphylococcal penicillins for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.","authors":"Connor Prosty, Dean Noutsios, Todd C Lee, Nick Daneman, Joshua S Davis, Nynke G L Jager, Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi, Anna L Goodman, Achim J Kaasch, Ilse Kouijzer, Brendan J McMullan, Emily G McDonald, Steven Y C Tong, Sean W X Ong","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.04.045","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.04.045","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>There is debate on whether cefazolin or antistaphylococcal penicillins should be the first-line treatment for methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteraemia. Ongoing trials are investigating whether cefazolin is non-inferior to (flu)cloxacillin, but it remains uncertain whether these findings apply to other antistaphylococcal penicillins.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing cefazolin with each of the individual antistaphylococcal penicillins for MSSA bacteraemia.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data sources: We updated a 2019 systematic review but specifically focused on evaluating outcomes by individual antistaphylococcal penicillins.</p><p><strong>Study eligibility criteria: </strong>Study eligibility criteria include comparative observational studies.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Participants include patients with MSSA bacteraemia.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>Interventions include cefazolin vs. the antistaphylococcal penicillins.</p><p><strong>Assessment of risk of bias: </strong>Assessment of risk of bias involved the risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions tool.</p><p><strong>Methods of data synthesis: </strong>The primary outcome was 30-day all-cause mortality and we assessed for non-inferiority of cefazolin using a pre-specified non-inferiority margin of a pooled OR <1.2 using raw unadjusted data. Secondary outcomes were 90-day mortality, treatment-related adverse events (TRAEs), discontinuation due to toxicity, and nephrotoxicity.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No randomized data have been published. A total of 30 observational studies at moderate or high risk of bias were included, which comprised 3869 patients who received cefazolin and 11 644 patients who received antistaphylococcal penicillins (flucloxacillin = 6721, unspecified = 2440, nafcillin = 1305, cloxacillin = 1258, and oxacillin = 120). Cefazolin was associated with a reduced odds of 30-day all-cause mortality (OR = 0.73, 95% CI: 0.62-0.85) compared with antistaphylococcal penicillins, meeting pre-specified non-inferiority. This effect was consistent vs. flucloxacillin (OR = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.73-1.16), nafcillin (OR = 0.58, 95% CI: 0.28-1.17), cloxacillin (OR = 0.42, 95% CI: 0.11-1.58), and oxacillin (OR = 0.31, 95% CI: 0.03-2.75). Point estimates favoured cefazolin for 90-day mortality, TRAEs, nephrotoxicity, and discontinuation due to toxicity overall and in each comparison with individual antistaphylococcal penicillins, except for TRAEs vs. cloxacillin.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>In moderate-to low-quality observational data, cefazolin was non-inferior for mortality and potentially superior for safety as compared with antistaphylococcal penicillins overall and across most individual comparisons.</p>","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143986856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eduardo Aparicio-Minguijón, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Rafael San-Juan, José María Aguado
{"title":"Which trial do we need? Ceftriaxone vs. meropenem for infections due to AmpC-producing enterobacterales.","authors":"Eduardo Aparicio-Minguijón, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Rafael San-Juan, José María Aguado","doi":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cmi.2025.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10444,"journal":{"name":"Clinical Microbiology and Infection","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143955694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}