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Researchers say the findings could help shift the focus of antibiotic stewardship efforts in low-resource settings.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday urged health providers to ask patients with suspected flu infections outside of the regular flu season to ask about any recent exposure to pigs.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, of the World Health Organization (WHO) today said many European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, were showing continued slowing of new monkeypox cases, while countries in the Americas (save for Canada) are still seeing increased case counts.
Neutralizing antibody levels peaked at 84% but remained around 70% for up to 13 months.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
The patient who died was described as being severely immune-compromised.
Two Omicron SARS-CoV-2 subvariants—BA.5 and BA.4.6—increased their predominance last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest update.
A single-center study in North Carolina showed that a multifaceted initiative was associated with a significant and sustainable decrease in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB; bacteria in the urine) and asymptomatic pyuria (ASP; elevated white blood cells in the urine), researchers reported today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epide
The funds will support the first US-based fill-and-finish effort of Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos vaccine.
Nearly 72% of US clinicians working in safety-net clinics had mild to intense moral distress.
A randomized trial of children with diarrhea in two low-income countries found that use of an algorithm to predict the likelihood of viral etiology resulted in reduced antibiotic use in children who had a higher likelihood of viral illness, researchers reported today in JAMA Pediatrics.
Children aged 4 to 14 years can accurately self-collect nasal swabs for COVID-19 testing after viewing simple instructions, suggests a study late last week in JAMA.
With 137 newly confirmed infections, cases on the Diamond Princess reach 355.
US national data show that 13% of visits for acute gastroenteritis resulted in a prescription for an antibiotic.
mRNA booster protection against severe COVID-19 was 87% and didn't wane for 6 months.
Half of men who have MSM are changing their sexual behaviors because of the monkeypox outbreak.
One study describes an increase in US hospital deaths during a surge, 1 notes a rise in the risk of dying at home, and 1 notes decreased hospital deaths in New York City.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The prevalence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in the United States declined during the COVID-19 pandemic, but inpatient mortality and treatment costs were higher, according to a paper published yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated events, and C difficile infections all increased.
