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A US expert says events are unfolding in ways reminiscent of Guinea in 2014.
Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) at a rural community hospital in Georgia significantly reduced Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs), antimicrobial use, and overall drug costs, researchers reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) said today two more cases of MERS have been detected in patients who had been exposed at healthcare facilities in Bishah and Riyadh.
A 57-year-old expatriate male in Bishah is in stable condition after being diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The patient is a healthcare worker and is asymptomatic.
More than a third of drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae strains belonged to a clade never before seen at such high levels.
A WHO spokesman said ring vaccination would be the recommended approach "if pertinent."
Worryingly, 28% weren't vaccinated because of a healthcare provider's decision.
Tests have confirmed another H9N2 avian influenza infection, in a 32-year-old Beijing man who had symptoms such as fever, cough, and sore throat but has since recovered, according to a notice from the Beijing Centers for Disease Control (Beijing CDC) translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The yellow fever virus that has caused a large outbreak in Brazil has undergone substantial mutations, but these changes should not affect vaccine effectiveness, Brazilian investigators said, according to a story today in Brazil's O Globo newspaper.
Recommendations take aim at preparing for global health threats while maximizing returns.
The likely index patient has died, as has the person who drove him to a healthcare facility.
Over the weekend and through today, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported four more MERS-CoV cases, including two linked to possible healthcare exposures.
Epidemiologists and responders are en route to the DRC to assist, and Doctors without Borders is sending an emergency team.
Many of the new cases are in the north, which has reported a late-season surge; elsewhere, Egypt has a new H5N1 case.
Yesterday Brazil's Ministry of Health lifted the state of emergency caused by the Zika virus, due to the country's dwindling case counts of the mosquito-borne disease.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Belgian researchers are reporting a rise in carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae (CPE), including a colistin-resistant MCR-1 producer, in hospitals and the community in Belgium.
The $1 million estimate doesn't include all healthcare or other economic costs.
The strategy turns gram-positive antibiotics into drugs against more troublesome pathogens.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today finalized its cholera vaccine recommendation for adults traveling to disease outbreak areas, based on June 2016 advice from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
A novel antifungal drug has shown in vitro activity against the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris, researchers report in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
A multicenter study of patients with MRSA bloodstream infections caused by a community-associated strain of the pathogen has identified race as a primary association, researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
