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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Results from a survey published yesterday in Eurosurveillance indicate more frequent detection and greater geographical dispersion of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in Europe.
The MDR strains emerged earlier and are more widespread than thought.
Madagascar's number of confirmed and suspected plague infections has climbed to 1,801, including 127 deaths, over the past few days, with the number of new cases from the pneumonic form of the disease continuing to decline, according to the latest situation report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) today announced the first two recipients to receive its Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence (COE) designation: Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., and Summa Health, based in Akron, Ohio.
Gaps the GAO identified include instances of agencies overseeing their own labs, a need for more focus on the highest-risk activities, and understaffing.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV infection yesterday and today and the death of a previously reported patient.
A 49-year-old Saudi man from Unayzah is in critical condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), the MOH reported yesterday. The man had indirect contact with camels, a known risk factor for MERS.
CARB-X announced today that it's awarding $168,000 to Integrated Biotherapeutics to develop a vaccine for the prevention of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Antibiotic use in food-producing animals fell by 27% from 2014 to 2016.
"It seems we've lost an understanding of the difference between a pandemic and an epidemic."
CARB-X, an initiative to build a better pipeline of new antibiotics for treating resistant infections, announced today that it awarded Inhibrx $4.55 million to speed up the development of a new antibody to prevent and treat Pseudomonas, a hard-to-treat Gram-negative pathogen often found in health settings.
South Africa reported four more outbreaks involving highly pathogenic H5N8, two in poultry and two in other captive bird settings, according to two reports today from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
2016 saw 10.4 million TB cases and 1.7 million deaths, with 490,000 multidrug-resistant cases.
The outbreak has now become Nigeria's largest ever, with 9 confirmed cases.
The cases were reported in different areas of the country, though two are from the same city.
Uganda's recently announced second lab-confirmed Marburg virus patient—part of a family cluster— visited two traditional healers for his symptoms, one of them across the border in western Kenya, the World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO) said today in its weekly outbreak and health emergencies bulletin.
The man, who died from his infection, is a brother of the first confirmed case-patient.
Canadian researchers have found that hospital-specific antibiotic usage was associated with increased, rather than decreased, antibiotic susceptibility in a study yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
The World Health Organization (WHO) reported a total of 1,309 suspected cases, including 93 deaths, in an update yesterday on the plague outbreak in Madagascar. The case-fatality rate for the outbreak is now 7%.
The numbers reflect an increase of 12 cases and 9 fewer deaths from the WHO's previous update on Oct 20.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its weekly FluView report, noted a new case of variant influenza A reported in Ohio involving variant H1N2 (H1N2v).
The data show emergency department visits, among other factors, increase C difficile risk.
