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Cases rise 31% in Africa and 13% in the Americas but fall globally.
A study conducted in a hospital with high rates of antibiotic resistance in Singapore found that sequential implementation of two antimicrobial stewardship interventions was associated with reduced use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, researchers reported yesterday in JAMA Network Open.
Nearly 13% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients had serious neurologic illnesses in the first year of the pandemic, suggests an international study published last week in Critical Care Explorations.
More than 53,000 pediatric US COVID-19 cases were reported last week, a 61% increase.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 had more than twice the risk of hospitalization and ICU stay.
Patients with antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis can be treated with a 6-month, all-oral regimen, the agency says.
Cognitive impairment from severe COVID-19 is equivalent to losing 10 IQ points or 20 years of aging, and any recovery is slow at best, suggests a small study published late last week in eClinicalMedicine.
The difference was small but meaningful at a population level, suggests a large study.
The CDC urges clinicians to consider H5N1 flu in people with symptoms who had potential exposure.
Meanwhile, US cases continue to grow, especially in the Northeast, though hospitalizations and deaths are still low.
The rate of full COVID-19 vaccination among employees of a private Minnesota medical device manufacturer rose 10.4 percentage points after the company began offering $1,000 incentives for immunization, finds a study published late last week in JAMA Network Open.
A multimodal intervention at primary care practices in a large healthcare system in North Carolina was associated with significant decreases in inappropriate outpatient antibiotic prescribing for upper respiratory tract infections, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
South African officials say they will have a clearer picture as next week unfolds, and officials in China's Guangdong province track an outbreak in the capital.
Wide-ranging individual infectiousness challenges the notion that behavior is the main superspreader driver.
The man wore protective equipment but had gaps in eye protection. Meanwhile, the USDA reports Vermont's first outbreak in poultry.
The sensitivity of home rapid antigen COVID-19 tests peaks 4 days after symptom onset, suggesting that a negative antigen test should be followed by a second test in 1 or 2 days, according to a prospective study published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The National Institutes of Health this week announced a $2.4 million grant for a clinical trial to study responsible use of antibiotics in the treatment of severe gum disease.
Cases are rising in South Africa, where researchers are closely tracking two new Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5. Both seem to be more transmissible than BA.2.
Risk factors for severe COVID varied by age, with BMI and underlying conditions more notable for younger adult patients and lab results more predictive for older people.
Earlier studies in animals and adults suggested a link between antibiotic use and vaccine response, and these are the first findings in children.
