Bugs & Drugs

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Updated May 2026:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Culture-Directed Infections > Bacteremia > S. aureus
2. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Urinary Tract > Complicated UTI including catheter-associated UTI and pyelonephritis > Pyelonephritis in Pregnancy
3. Amphotericin B, lipid complexed has been discontinued from the Canadian market and has therefore been removed from Dosing tables and relevant Fungal infections.

Updated April 2026:

1. Antibiotics > Antimicrobial Spectrum of Activity > Antimicrobials > Daptomycin
2. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Gastrointestinal > Liver abscess > Bacterial

Updated March 2026:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Central Nervous System > Brain abscess > Nocardia spp
2. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Respiratory > Pharyngitis > Gonococcal
3. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Urinary Tract > Uncomplicated UTI/Cystitis > Nonpregnant Females/Males
4. Treatment Recommendations > Culture-Directed Infections > Pneumonia > Nocardia spp
5. Treatment Recommendations > Culture-Directed Infections > Endocarditis > Candida spp
6. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Gastrointestinal > Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) > Initial episode - severe

Updated January 2026:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Genital
2. **NEW SECTION** Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Genital > Genital ulcers/lesions > Mpox

Updated December 2025:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Neonates / Paediatric Patients > Central Nervous System > Meningitis
2. Treatment Recommendations > Neonates / Paediatric Patients > Central Nervous System > Encephalitis

Updated November 2025:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Urinary Tract
2. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Sepsis > Urosepsis/Pyelonephritis
3. Treatment Recommendations > Culture-Directed Infections > Endocarditis
4. Antibiotics > Adult Dosing Recommendations in Renal Impairment > Cephalosporins / Macrolides / Quinolones
5. Dental > Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Dentistry

Updated September 2025:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Neonates / Paediatric Patients > Gastrointestinal > Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)
2. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Cardiovascular > Endocarditis
3. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Skin & Soft Tissue > Mastitis/Breast abscess
4. Treatment Recommendations > Culture-Directed Infections > Blood Culture Negative Endocarditis (BCNE)
5. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Respiratory > Pneumonia, Community-acquired (CAP) > CAP, Hospitalized, Severe

Updated July 2025:

1. Antibiotics > Antimicrobial Spectrum of Activity > Antifungals
2. **NEW SECTION** Antimicrobial Adult Dosing Recommendations in Obesity
3. Antibiotics > Antimicrobial Dosing Guide and Daily Costs > Adult Dosing Guide and Daily Costs > Cephalosporins, Ceftobiprole dosing
4. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Gastrointestinal > Helicobacter pylori associated dyspepsia/duodenal/gastric ulcer

Updated June 2025:

1. Treatment Recommendations > Culture-Directed Infections > Endocarditis > Abiotrophia spp, Granulicatella spp
2. Treatment Recommendations > Adult Patients > Respiratory > Pleural Space Infections