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An antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in an intensive care unit (ICU) in a Spanish hospital was associated with a 22% drop in antimicrobial doses, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
At least 25 people in 9 states have been sickened in a new Salmonella outbreak.
The findings add more weight to calls for more broadly protective flu vaccines.
Starting antiviral treatment early may reduce the size of flu outbreaks in long-term care facilities, researchers from Taiwan reported today in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
Most infection specialists currently do not advise the shortest possible duration of antibiotic therapy to prescribers, but nearly half are willing to shorten the duration most of the time, a French-led team of researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Researchers identify more than 80 genes that contribute to resistance.
Yellow fever vaccine will be used across some of Brazil's most populous regions in the coming months.
One study reaffirms the Zika-microcephaly link; the other spotlights economic factors.
Preliminary indications into South Sudan's recent viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak suggest that Rift Valley fever (RVF) may be the cause, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said in its latest outbreak and health emergencies update.
Hospitalizations nearly doubled compared with the previous week, with seniors the hardest-hit group.
Contacts of an imported case in Malaysia include others who attended the same Saudi Arabia pilgrimage, the man's family, airline contacts, and health workers.
Few resources address when contact precautions can be stepped back, and hospital approaches vary.
An "interactive massive open online course" (MOOC) on antimicrobial stewardship was taken by 32,944 people in 163 countries and was rated highly by its participants, most of whom were healthcare professionals, according to a report this week in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
China has reported its second human H7N9 avian influenza infection of the season, in a 72-year-old man from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who died from his illness, Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) said in a statement today, based on information from the mainland.
So far the CDC probe hasn't pointed to a specific food type to guide consumers.
The compound worked on biofilms, which are important causes of chronic and recurring bacterial infections.
A growing number of vaccine makers are expressing concerns about their ability to quickly develop new vaccine candidates against emerging disease threat, such as Zika and Ebola viruses, Stat reported today, based on interviews with pharmaceutical executives, government officials, and infectious disease experts.
Scientists from Italy today reported detecting the worrisome colistin-resistance gene MCR-4 in two isolates of Salmonella from people, only the second time the gene has been reported and the first time in humans, according to their report in Eurosurveillance.
The therapy, which uses cattle antibodies to treat the virus in humans, has shown to be safe and well-tolerated.
