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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) announced yesterday that it is collaborating with Indian biopharmaceutical company Bugworks on a phase 1 clinical trial to assess a new class of antibiotic compounds for multidrug-resistant bacteria.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday said it and health officials in multiple state are investigating Salmonella outbreaks tied to backyard poultry that have sickened 219 people, 1 fatally, in 38 states.
Unvaccinated heart-failure patients who contract COVID-19 are three times more likely to die of their infections than their vaccinated and boosted counterparts, concludes a study published yesterday in the Journal of Cardiac Failure.
One expert cautions against letting the fear of stigmatization get in the way of clear messages.
"People are dying from preventable infections even though we have an arsenal of drugs."
Vaccine rollout plans include an initial distribution of 10 million doses to kids under 5 years old.
The risk of COVID-19–related multisystem inflammatory system in children (MIS-C) was significantly lower among vaccinated versus unvaccinated Danish children after infection with the Omicron variant rather than with previous strains, according to a research letter published yesterday in JAMA Pediatrics.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) this week issued an alert on the potential emergence and spread of extremely drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella sonnei in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Moderna says its new 2-strain vaccine boosts Omicron antibody response eightfold.
The risk of breakthrough COVID-19 was 28% higher in adults with HIV.
So far this year African nations have reported 1,400 monkeypox cases, including 66 deaths.
COVID-19 infection and pregnancy independently raised the risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission, the need for supplemental oxygen, and death among hospitalized women in sub-Saharan Africa, finds a study published today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
A single-center study suggests gender bias may play a role in whether antibiotic stewardship recommendations by pharmacists are accepted by hospitalists, researchers reported yesterday in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Novavax would give the US a fourth vaccine against COVID.
Also, HHS has asked Bavarian Nordic to deliver 36,000 more vaccine doses this week to the national stockpile.
COVID caused 62% of deaths, but it ranged from 77% to 82% among minority officers.
People who believe in conspiracies about the COVID-19 pandemic are at an increased risk of experiencing anxiety and depression, according to new research presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry and published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.
Electronic algorithms developed by an antibiotic stewardship team at the University of Pennsylvania were highly accurate in detecting inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for bronchitis and pharyngitis, scientists reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Cases in nonendemic countries continue to climb, with more than 780 reported in the past 3 weeks.
Voting behavior seemed to be a proxy for compliance with and support for public health measures.
