Audio Journal of Medicine: Reporting from the 2006 Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), September 27 – 30, San Francisco

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Jonathan LiAndrew Redmond

Alexander Mankin

Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Short-Course Antibiotic Treatment Good Enough?

REFERENCE: Abstract L-1458JONATHAN LI, University of California, San FranciscoA large meta-analysis presented at ICAAC supported the idea of giving short-course antibiotic regimens instead of extended-course in community-acquired pneumonia. Derek Thorne got the details fromJonathan Liof the University of California San Francisco.

Could HIV Protease Inhibitors Help Treat or Prevent Malaria?

REFERENCE: Abstract H-1734ANDREW REDMOND, Royal Brisbane and Women’s HospitalHIV/AIDS and malaria both kill huge numbers across the globe – and when they’re found together in one person, they become even more dangerous. That’s why ICAAC delegates were interested to see a study looking at the possible antimalarial effects of HIV protease inhibitors. Derek Thorne heard more fromAndrew Redmondof the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital.

New Resistance Mechanism in MRSA

REFERENCE: Abstract C1-942ALEXANDER MANKIN, University of Illinois at ChicagoMethicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus has once again found a way to develop resistance to an antibiotic – in this case, linezolid – and the mechanism leaves us marveling at nature. Derek Thorne found out more fromAlexander Mankinof the University of Illinois at Chicago.