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At least 20% of all primary care antibiotics could be classified as inappropriate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today ended its investigation into a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo linked to raw sprouts.
A worrisome finding among resistant Salmonella isolates was the Kentucky serovar, of which more than three-quarters were multidrug resistant.
A report on two babies born in the Brownsville, Tex., area with congenital Zika infections showed that testing on their mothers during pregnancy and lab tests on babies don't always match up. Researchers from Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Tex., where both babies were evaluated and treated, described their findings yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria continues this week with 68 new confirmed cases, including 4 deaths, according to the latest weekly update by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa. That's up from 19 confirmed cases the week before.
In research news, French scientists detect signs of airborne H5N8 on farms.
After only a handful of reports released earlier this month, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed six new cases of MERS-CoV over the weekend.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, today weighed in on steps the FDA it taking to improve the effectiveness of seasonal flu vaccines, which includes collaborating with partners at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to use a large database that includes information on flu vaccines given to 4 million people.
Involving ID docs and local pharmacists might be key.
Though ILI has dropped, kids' deaths near 100 and hospital rates are high.
Recall notice says company's products shipped to Fareway grocery stores in 5 Midwestern states.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Belgian researchers report that almost a third of prescriptions for fluoroquinolones written for hospitalized children were deemed inappropriate, according to a study today in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Japan's health ministry has given fast-track approval to a new flu antiviral with a different mechanism of action than neuraminidase inhibitors that offers a one-dose treatment option, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
One of the changes involves H3N2, a move that will likely not solve egg-adaptation problems, an expert says.
Days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said kratom, a plant used as an opioid substitute, was behind a multistate outbreak of Salmonella illness, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Botany Bay, Enhance Your Life, and Divinity by Divinity Products Distribution of Grain Valley, Mo., agreed to stop selling all products containing kratom, and voluntarily destroyed a high vo
A systematic review of treatments for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology concludes that the most cost-effective treatment remains unclear.
After careful deliberation, experts approved the nasal-spray vaccine 12-2.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS cases yesterday, and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a small healthcare-associated outbreak occurred in Hafar Al-Batin in January.
A study today in Science Translational Medicine describes a new approach to determining the modes of action underlying antimicrobial compounds that could help speed the process of discovering novel antibiotics.
