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Michigan health officials recently announced two variant H3N2 (H3N2v) influenza illnesses in Muskegon County residents who exhibited swine at the Muskegon County fair in late July. The cases appear to be the nation's first for 2016.
Researchers in Brazil said today they've detected the MCR-1 gene, which confers resistance to the antibiotic colistin, in a hospital patient. It's the first time the plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance mechanism has been detected in a human in Brazil.
The case is within the Wynwood neighborhood where 14 other local infections have been identified.
Three inactivated gene- and vector-based vaccines protected rhesus monkeys from a Zika challenge.
Health officials in Scotland have announced the country's first detection of antibiotic-resistant bacteria harboring the MCR-1 gene.
The pace of yellow fever cases in Angola has slowed further but shows no sign of relenting in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update today. Meanwhile, an Associated Press (AP) report highlighted the organization's response failings, including a million lost doses of vaccine.
"Sobering reminder . . . that Zika can cause serious harm to a developing fetus."
Protection against hospitalization for influenza was 57% and varied little among all age-groups, even in those 75 and older.
A series of articles in a supplement to the latest issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases address what is termed a "crisis" in antibiotic development with recommendations to improve a critical stage in the process—clinical trials.
Saudi Arabia confirmed a new MERS-CoV case today in Medina, according to its Ministry of Health (MOH).
Antibodies from infected people were able to inhibit strains from both Asian and African lineages.
The case is outside of Wynwood, where the other 14 cases were reported.
A new study in The Lancet shows that C-reactive protein (CRP) testing performed at the point of care safely reduced antibiotic use in patients with acute respiratory infections in Vietnam, without compromising patients' recovery.
One isolate was also resistant to beta-lactams, fluoroquinolones, and florfenicol.
The stopgap funds will help track adverse outcomes in babies born to moms infected with Zika virus.
A number of studies conducted at the time of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic and shortly afterward reported a higher risk of severe disease in obese patients, while some did not. Today a study in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses found that obesity was not a risk factor for the more general condition called influenza-like illness (ILI).
A new study from a team of French researchers suggests that when bacteria acquire plasmids containing drug-resistant genes, they rarely lose them.
The finding suggests that future antiobitic candidates could be found within the human body.
The CDC says pregnant women should avoid travel to a fairly small area north of downtown Miami.
