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IDWeek is the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and several other major organizations. Dr. Frances Ue, an infectious diseases fellow at Harvard Medical School who also works as a general medicine hospitalist, attended this year's meeting from October 16 to 19 in Los Angeles, California. Below are Dr. Ue's summaries of several presentations of particular relevance and interest to general medicine clinicians.
(Dr. Nick Daneman et al., Session 376)
Evidence to support shorter antibiotic regimens for patients with bloodstream infections is growing. In this randomized trial conducted in seven countries, researchers comp…