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Experts say the cost of a scale-up is $34 billion but would pay for itself 8 times over.
"The antibiotic resistance pattern of this strain is alarming," a CDC expert says.
Disease in hot spots like Beni continues to feed other areas, such as recent cases in South Kivu province.
A national survey has found that antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) in US nursing homes have become more comprehensive since the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) required the facilities to have them, researchers from Columbia University School of Nursing reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Afghanistan has one more wild poliovirus (WPV) case, and Angola and Ghana each have one more vaccine-derived polio case, according to the latest weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiate (GPEI).
The three new cases come during the same week Nigeria reached the 3-year mark of no WPV transmission.
Officials are bracing for more cases and spread to new areas after a community protest led to the suspension of Ebola response activities.
The findings don't establish a causal relationship but show a possible connection, especially with certain antibiotics and regions of the GI tract.
A 10-year analysis of US tuberculosis (TB) data shows that, for children and adolescents, incidence is low and steadily dropping, but rates are disproportionately high in some groups. Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported their findings yesterday in The Lancet Public Health.
The Pfizer Foundation this week announced $2 million in grants to help non-governmental organizations, non-profits, and social enterprises in low- and middle-income countries address infectious disease challenges, including the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
A mother and child in South Kivu province became infected after contact with a patient from Beni.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said it will not vaccinate migrants, despite concerns some have raised about infectious disease spread, particularly the deaths of three children who died after falling ill with flu while in US custody, according to media reports.
An analysis of the electronic health records of more than 1.6 million UK patients revealed that doctors don't always prescribe antibiotics according to guidelines, especially for upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) and otitis externa (outer ear passage infection), according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Lefamulin approval was supported by two phase 3 trials involving moxifloxacin.
A study of infants who had bacteremic urinary tract infections (UTIs) indicates that short-course parenteral antibiotic therapy may be considered as a treatment option, a team of US researchers reported today in Pediatrics.
The rate of Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak shows a slight decline, with Beni and Mandima still remaining as the main hot spots, according to a weekly outbreak and emergencies report from the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office that covers cases through Aug 17.
Analysis of a 2015-16 cluster highlights living conditions and healthcare spread.
With 21 new cases, 2019 US measles totals rise to 1,203 in 30 states.
With 27 new infections in the past 3 days, the outbreak has grown to 2,888 cases and 1,934 deaths.
Postprescription audit and review showed more promise than preauthorization.
