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The fast, automated assay performs well against gold standard TB tests.
Study shows no increase in hospitalized sepsis cases over a 5-year period.
Pregnant women who received the pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine in 2009 or 2010 were no more likely to have adverse birth outcomes than women who received the seasonal flu shot at the time, according to a study published yesterday in Vaccine.
German researchers have found indications that the risk of acquiring healthcare-associated vancomycin-resistant enterococci (HA-VRE) is linked to the use of specific antimicrobial agents, according to a study yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Nursing homes are likely filled with many resistant organisms interacting with antibiotics and each other.
Women who had received 2 straight H1N1-containing vaccines had a higher rate of miscarriage.
Although overuse of antimicrobials is a known contributor to antimicrobial resistance in general, researchers reported yesterday they could find no association between numbers of US antimicrobial prescriptions during a recent 8-year period and resistance in the bacteria that causes gonorrhea.
An experimental malaria drug called AQ-13 compared well with an established combination treatment in a non-inferiority trial in Malian men with non-severe malaria, according to a report yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
In addition, Oman reports its first MERS case of the year, in a middle-aged man.
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, who stepped down as the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at the end of the Obama administration, today announced the launch of a $225 million initiative to combat infectious disease outbreaks and heart disease and stroke throughout the world, according to media reports.
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded drug maker Summit Therapeutics $32 million over the next 2 years for development of a new antibiotic for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).
Point-of-care tests, shared decision making, and procalcitonin-guided therapy were singled out.
Experts ponder why FluMist performed poorly in the US but well elsewhere.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 39 cases of Campylobacter infections have been identified in people who had recently come into contact with puppies at Petland pet stores.
New research presented today at the annual meeting of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) indicates that children with asthma are more likely to be prescribed antibiotics than those without a diagnosis of asthma, even though antibiotics are not recommended for asthma treatment.
The worrisome, deadly Klebsiella pneumoniae strains reported in China last week could be a harbinger.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A systematic review by South African experts yesterday of 10 studies estimates the prevalence of colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase–producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) at 17% in pregnant or postpartum African women, higher than women in middle- to high-income settings.
The results represent a risk for colonization of neonates with ESBL-E.
Flu vaccination in adults ages 50 and older doesn't appear to raise the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a new study published in Vaccine that examined the connection between the two factors.
Also, waning immunity probably contributes to outbreaks, the study found.
