Background The consequences of inappropriate antimicrobial use including resistance are
increasingly recognized as a global public health threat and many steps have been taken …

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) have made immense strides in optimizing
antibiotic, antifungal, and antiviral use in clinical settings. However, although ASPs are …

Background In the last decades, solid organ transplantation (SOT) has emerged as an
important method in the management of chronic kidney, liver, heart, and lung failure …

Abstract Objective Rising incidence of Clostridium difficile and multidrug‐resistant
organisms' infections and a dwindling development of new antimicrobials are an impetus for …

SOT patients are an understudied population with respect to antimicrobial stewardship
interventions. Current antimicrobial stewardship interventions for SOT patients are largely …

Background Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients can benefit from traditional antimicrobial
stewardship (AMS) activities directed to improve judicious perioperative prescribing and …

Antimicrobial stewardship is valuable to transplant programs to reduce the threat of
antimicrobial resistance, improve patient outcomes, and attenuate risks of drug toxicities. 1 …

Antimicrobial management can be included in solid organ transplantation practice with
these strategies and benefit the programs by ensuring early appropriate antimicrobial …

Consequences of antimicrobial use, such as drug toxicities, and Clostridiodes difficile (CDI)
and multidrug-resistant organisms colonization and infection disproportionately affect SOT …

from each donor; range is 1 to 8 organs. It thus befits to start the current issue with an update
of this topic. In addition, several other articles in this issue address specific aspects of this …