By IDSE News Staff
Black women hospitalized with a resistant bacteremia were twice as likely to die as Black men or white women, even after adjusting for several factors, according to a presentation at the 2024 ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID), in Barcelona, Spain (poster 1829).
“These findings are deeply troubling,” said lead author Felicia Ruffin, MSN, from Duke University School of Medicine, in Durham, N.C. “Studies are rare that describe these disparities, and our