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About 75% of counties on the US mainland have suitable habitat for Aedes mosquitoes, CDC researchers say.
A multidrug-resistant parasite lineage that has become dominant in Cambodia, with spread to parts of Thailand and Laos, has now spread to southern Vietnam, where it has been linked to an alarming number of treatment failures in patients who were given the nation's first-line treatment.
Seven people who had close contact with swine at the Charles County Fair in Maryland have been diagnosed as having H3N2v, a variant swine-origin flu. The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) published details of the cases on its Web site yesterday.
The study involved almost 5,000 women in a country with high vaccine uptake.
Postoperative antibiotics more than cut in half the rate of surgical site infection (SSI) within 30 days after delivery among obese women undergoing cesarean delivery, according to the results of a randomized controlled trial published yesterday in JAMA.
High flu activity continues in several parts of the world, especially in Australia, as well as some countries in southern Asia and southeast Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.
Drugs in the pipeline will add little to the arsenal and will not be enough to tackle AMR, experts say.
EpiVax, Inc., a vaccine development and immune engineering company based in Providence, R.I., yesterday announced it is part of collaboration supported by a $5.8 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a new type of vaccine against H7N9 avian influenza.
Symbiomix Therapeutics announced yesterday that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Sep 15 approved its antibiotic Solosec (secnidazole) for treating bacterial vaginosis (BV) in adults, the first single-dose option for the condition.
Italy has now confirmed 14 cases of locally acquired chikungunya, 6 of them in Rome, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a Sep 15 statement.
Researchers at the University of Washington report in Clinical Infectious Diseases that a subclone of the emerging global pathogen Escherichia coli sequence type (ST) 131 is not as prevalent in children as adults but is nearly as dominant in drug-resistant E coli infections in children.
Hundreds who may have drunk contaminated raw milk may be unaware of the risk.
The case total now stands at 235, with 78 hospitalizations and 2 deaths in 26 states.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today reported a new case of H7N9 avian flu in Liaoning province, further evidence that the virus has not disappeared during the summer.
Results from a new study in Pediatrics confirmed high performance of a novel diagnostic test to distinguish bacterial from viral infection in febrile children.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Study shows no increase in hospitalized sepsis cases over a 5-year period.
The fast, automated assay performs well against gold standard TB tests.
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.
