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A study conducted at a large teaching hospital in Tokyo found that most tests used to diagnose invasive fungal disease were inappropriate, Japanese researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic have been particularly detrimental for the mental health of Black adults, finds a new US study in the Journal of Gerontology.
Only 2 of more than 160 patients were admitted to the ICU, the hospital report says.
Though the Delta variant is still the dominant US strain, Omicron could one day overtake it.
Adults' blood pressures climbed during COVID-19, especially in women.
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) recently announced the first positive chronic wasting disease (CWD) test in a hunter-harvested deer in Union County, far from the nearest known positive finding in the state.
Today in Circulation, researchers report that most cases of rare yet potentially serious episodes of myocarditis related to COVID-19 vaccinations in teens and young adults were mild, and the case-patients recovered quickly.
Also, Delta variant activity continued at high levels in Europe, with worrisome signs in the UK.
Declines in prescribing, however, were in certain types of physicians only.
"If we want to protect the American people and our economy, we must defeat the virus everywhere."
Tested boosters were Novavax, AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Valneva, J&J, Moderna, and CureVac.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
US Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, announced this week that he has reintroduced legislation to strengthen the federal response to antibiotic resistance.
Close contact with COVID-19 cases outside of work is the biggest risk factor for infections among American healthcare workers, according to research published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The plan comes as the nation records its 2nd and 3rd Omicron cases, in Minnesota and Colorado.
A researcher notes: "Both vaccines are incredibly effective, with only rare breakthrough cases."
Data yet to be peer-reviewed show the Omicron variant may be highly transmissible.
The US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced this week that it has begun an effort to study antimicrobial use and resistance on commercial swine farms in the Midwest.
The neutralizing monoclonal antibody lenzilumab significantly raised survival without the use of mechanical ventilation in hospitalized COVID-19 patients and had a good safety profile, according to a phase 3 clinical trial yesterday in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.
The case-patient traveled to South Africa and returned to the San Francisco area on Nov 22 and is isolating at home.
