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Lentocilin is the second drug to get FDA clearance for temporary import as rising syphilis infections outstrip treatment supply, including for newborns.
Approved in 2018 for treating pneumonia and skin infections, the drug has shown activity against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, including antibiotic-resistant strains.
A lower risk of severe COVID-19 reinfection and hospitalization was seen with a longer time since dengue infection.
Scientists said until the newer more closely matched vaccine is approved, earlier licensed vaccines might be a useful bridge, if needed.
The authors said the rise in antimicrobial resistance in 2020-2021 is likely due in part to the effects of COVID-19, which pushed hospitals to the brink.
The effects were especially apparent among 16-year-olds, those with parents with lower educational attainment, and those with lower genetic susceptibility to depression.
The guidance focused on four key areas, which ranged from biomarkers pathogen testing to guide prescribing to watchful waiting and delayed prescribing.
Children with a vaccine-hesitant parent varied by vaccine: 56% for COVID, 31% for flu, 30% for HPV, and 12% for other childhood illnesses.
The findings showed lower risks of death, intensive care unit admission, and need for ventilation among Paxlovid recipients.
Investigators are exploring if conditions in sweltering barns made PPE less effective and how the genotype infecting cows turned up on the poultry farm.
The first dose was given in Abidjan, and the rollout will target 38 districts across the country.
Type 1 diabetes incidence was 8.6 per 100 person-years during, versus before, the pandemic among uninfected participants and 14.0 among the infected.
Of backyard flock samples, 22% tested positive for Campylobacter, compared with 12% of the farm samples, and many were antibiotic-resistant.
In other developments, a challenge study in dairy cows finds that the virus can spread by both mammary and respiratory routes.
But progress was made as well, with global uptake of at least one dose of HPV vaccine in girls increasing to 27% in 2023 from 20% in 2022.
Colorado health officials are closely monitoring and testing workers, and the CDC has a field team on the ground to assist with the response.
The research team identified Staphylococcus aureus in 3% of animal samples, with 18% of them methicillin-resistant.
The avian flu in an elephant seal from Antarctica signals further expansion of the virus in the region's vulnerable wildlife.
Several factors before pregnancy were linked to an increased likelihood of developing long COVID, most notably obesity.
Wastewater levels are now at the high level, as other COVID indicators rise, especially in seniors and in western states.
