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A meta-analysis of five studies published today in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy determined that, in patients with bacteremia caused by Enterobacteriaceae, short- and long-course antibiotic treatment did not differ significantly in terms of clinical outcomes.
The strategy is geared toward using newer data tools and focusing on higher-risk foods.
Thirteen new cases raise the outbreak total to 872 cases, including 548 fatal ones.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced seven new cases of MERS-CoV over the weekend, recorded in reports for epidemiologic weeks 8 and 9. Three of the cases are in Wadi ad-Dawasir, two of which appear to be part of an ongoing hospital outbreak.
Altering electronic ordering for urinary tract infection tests was associated with a 45% reduction in urine cultures.
The new Beni case is among 6 reported today, bringing the outbreak total to 859 cases.
Hospitalization rates are up, and 7 new deaths in kids are reported, raising the season total to 41.
Without being able to pinpoint a specific source of contamination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday declared an end to its investigation of an outbreak of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Infantis infections after confirming 129 cases in 32 states, including 25 hospitalizations and 1 death.
A study today in Epidemiology and Infection reports that less than a third of the residents in Australian nursing homes who were prescribed an antimicrobial for a skin infection had a confirmed bacterial infection.
The experts plan to announce a decision on the H3N2 strain on Mar 21.
Approved for URI but not CRE, the drug might offer off-label prospects for the latter.
Officials halted surveillance activities in Vuhovi after a nurse from Bisongo was killed.
An international team of scientists reported today in Eurosurveillance that the three extensively drug-resistant (XDR) gonorrhea cases identified in Australia and the United Kingdom in 2018 were caused by a single XDR clone.
An early look at this season's flu vaccine in Europe shows that protection against influenza A has ranged between 32% and 43% across all patients seen at clinics and hospitals and was 59% in groups targeted for vaccination, according to findings from six European studies published today in Eurosurveillance.
Also, 3 new cases raise the outbreak total to 848, including 529 deaths.
Saudi Arabia today reported one more MERS-CoV infection, another apparently linked to an ongoing hospital-related outbreak in Wadi ad-Dawasir, according to a Ministry of Health (MOH) update to its epidemiologic week 8 report.
An antimicrobial stewardship intervention targeted to rural nursing homes in Alberta, Canada, significantly decreased the level of urine culture testing and antibiotic prescribing without an increase in hospitalization or mortality, Canadian researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Fluconazole during early pregnancy was linked to a more than double risk of miscarriage.
The DRC warned, however, that travel between Beni and other affected areas could bring the virus back.
