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Over the weekend and through today, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported four more MERS-CoV cases, including two linked to possible healthcare exposures.
Epidemiologists and responders are en route to the DRC to assist, and Doctors without Borders is sending an emergency team.
Many of the new cases are in the north, which has reported a late-season surge; elsewhere, Egypt has a new H5N1 case.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Belgian researchers are reporting a rise in carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae (CPE), including a colistin-resistant MCR-1 producer, in hospitals and the community in Belgium.
Yesterday Brazil's Ministry of Health lifted the state of emergency caused by the Zika virus, due to the country's dwindling case counts of the mosquito-borne disease.
The strategy turns gram-positive antibiotics into drugs against more troublesome pathogens.
The $1 million estimate doesn't include all healthcare or other economic costs.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today finalized its cholera vaccine recommendation for adults traveling to disease outbreak areas, based on June 2016 advice from its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP).
A novel antifungal drug has shown in vitro activity against the emerging fungal pathogen Candida auris, researchers report in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
A multicenter study of patients with MRSA bloodstream infections caused by a community-associated strain of the pathogen has identified race as a primary association, researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
In other developments, Saudi Arabia reported 3 more cases, 1 of them fatal.
Vaccination led to 89% seroconversion against all 4 strains of dengue.
To succeed, some hospitals pool ASP resources.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that the positive test results for Neisseria meningitidis from four Liberian patients is serotype C, Science reported yesterday. Kai Kupferschmidt, the author of the Science report, said on Twitter today that the tests were on blood and that testing is under way on cerebrospinal fluid samples.
A series of tests with low-pathogenic and highly pathogenic strains of H7N8 avian flu involved in Indiana poultry farm outbreaks in 2016 found that turkeys are highly susceptible and show different symptoms than infected chickens do. Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory reported their findings yesterday in PLoS One.
Liberian official says meningitis is the possible cause of puzzling cases.
On May 6 the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new confirmed case of MERS-CoV in Riyadh.
A 46-year-old Saudi man was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) after showing symptoms of the virus. He is in stable condition, and his infection is listed as "primary," meaning it is unlikely he contracted the disease from another person.
Over the weekend, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) fleshed out more details on 22 recent H7N9 avian flu cases, 8 of them fatal, that were reported Apr 28 to May 4 from China's mainland, signaling continued steady activity in the country's fifth and biggest wave of infections.
Changes are based on evidence that Zika virus IgM antibodies can persist beyond 12 weeks.
Results hold lessons for antibiotic prescribing, the author says.
