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Withholding antibiotic therapy until diagnosis of bacterial infections (ie, 4 to 8 hours) seems acceptable in patients other than those who may have septic shock or bacterial meningitis and may be a sound antibiotic stewardship approach, according to a meta-analysis of 60 studies published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Countries reporting their first cases include the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Ireland, Scotland, and Luxembourg.
Gene sequences from Snohomish County samples suggest there may be a few hundred undetected cases.
Washington state reports the nation's first COVID-19 death, and 2 nursing home cases.
The new cases are in California, Oregon, and Washington state.
Four health workers who met the criteria for hospital release had positive PCR results 5 to 13 days later.
As concerns deepen about Iran, the WHO is in the process of sending a mission to the country, with UAE help.
The CDC has broadened how it determines persons under investigation.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A population-based surveillance study estimates that there were nearly 23,000 cases of candidemia in the United States in 2017, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several state health departments reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
No new cases of Ebola were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past week, according to an update yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the case count at 3,444. It marks the first time since the outbreak began that no new confirmed cases were reported over a 7-day period.
The World Health Organization (WHO) flu vaccine strain selection committee met this week to assess what strains to include in the 2020-21 Northern Hemisphere flu season and today recommended swapping out three of the strains.
In their report, they recommend replacing egg-based flu vaccine strains:
The drugs were linked to a more than 70% increase in the odds of intestinal colonization with resistant bacteria.
Outside of China, hot spots include South Korea, Italy, and Iran.
In addition, Vice President Pence appoints AIDS expert Deborah Birx, MD, to coordinate the federal response.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today. This raises the number of MERS cases recorded this month to 12.
Pence, who will lead a response task force, says he will reach out to governors.
For the first time, new cases outside of China exceed new cases reported within China.
The International Society for Infectious Diseases' (ISID's) Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) today announced that it is teaming up with Public Health England to boost global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance efforts.
A study today in the Journal of Infectious Diseases found that egg-based adjuvanted and high-dose (HD) flu vaccines had slightly higher relative vaccine effectiveness (RVE) than egg-based quadrivalent (four-strain) vaccines in nearly 13 million Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older during the 2018-19 flu season.
"Not a question of if, but when, and of how many ... will have severe illnesses."
