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The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV infection today.
Almost two thirds of US hospitals now have full-scale antibiotic stewardship programs and the incidence of several antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections are declining in the country, according to a progress report on 2 years of US efforts to combat AMR, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said today.
Eight of 11 states that border high-incidence states saw cases increase.
Madagascar's plague total has grown to 2,034 cases, an increase of 87 since the last update from the World Health Organization (WHO), but no new suspected pneumonic cases or deaths were reported from Nov 7 to Nov 8. Overall, the rate of new cases and hospitalizations has been declining since the middle of October, the WHO said in the latest situation report today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in its weekly FluView report today, noted that cases are rising across the United States, and two states, Louisiana and South Carolina, are seeing moderate activity.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 9
Strains in Africa are becoming more drug resistant.
Legionella continues to be the most common cause of outbreaks linked to drinking water and also fuels many outbreaks linked to environmental water exposure.
A retrospective review of confirmed H7N9 avian influenza infections from China's Guangdong province to learn more about the demographics, disease severity, and treatment found that early oseltamivir treatment was linked to fewer intensive care unit (ICU) admissions and deaths.
A significant increase in cases of severe sepsis and septic shock within 90 days of hospital discharge was observed among patients exposed to antibiotics during their previous hospital stay, researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The study highlights ADE, when previous virus exposure enhances disease response.
In the past, the city has experienced outbreaks of dengue, Zika, and chikungunya that were spread by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
A study of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals has found that cases of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) are on the rise, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
In experiments designed to discover reasons for the relatively low effectiveness of last season's flu vaccine against the H3N2 strain—despite what experts thought was a close match between the vaccine strain and circulating viruses—researchers found that the culprit was a mutation that arose during production when the virus was passaged in chicken eggs.
The WHO calls for an overall reduction in the use of antibiotics in food animals.
Chinese scientists have found that 62% of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) isolates they tested were also resistant to pyrazinamide (PZA), a key drug in treating MDR-TB, according to a study published yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
The proportion of Zika virus–carrying Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes capable of transmitting the virus increased dramatically after a second blood meal, according to data presented today at the 66th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).
More than two thirds of adult hospital patients are on the drugs longer than needed.
All three of the Saudi patients are from Riyadh, but none of them are known to have had recent contact with camels.
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) bacteria cause at least 147,000 stillbirths and infant deaths worldwide each year, but providing effective treatment brings up antibiotic resistance and stewardship issues, according to a supplement to Clinical Infectious Diseases published today.
