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CARB-X said today it has awarded Lytica Therapeutics, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, up to $5.3 million to develop antibacterial peptides that have broad activity against multidrug-resistant bacteria for treating lung and other infections.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard shows a case count of 3,433 today, with a single newly confirmed case. The death toll is now 2,249 in an outbreak that has lasted 18 months in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A study of 44,672 cases reveals that 14% were severe and 5% critical.
Over the weekend and through today, Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two MERS-CoV cases, bringing the total number of cases detected in February so far to eight.
A major reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones has driven a 12% decrease in total antibiotic use in Canadian hospitals in recent years, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Officials will use the nation's flu surveillance system to detect the new coronavirus.
China confirms 5,090 new cases and 121 new deaths, raising the counts to 63,851 and 1,380, respectively.
Nearly a fourth of MRSA bloodstream infections were tied to injection drug use.
"The greatest risk is from an unsuspected patient in an unprepared hospital."
The United Kingdom yesterday announced the launch of a partnership with Nigeria, worth £10.7 million, to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by improving public health surveillance, upgrading laboratory equipment, and training technicians.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
US flu levels rose for the fourth straight week and are now approaching earlier peak levels, while 14 new flu-related pediatric deaths raised the fatalities in kids to 92 for the season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its weekly FluView report.
Ideally, anyone coming into a room with a COVID-19 patient should wear a tight-fitting respirator.
Changed diagnostic criteria lead to 13,332 new cases, bringing China's total to near 60,000.
All three confirmed Ebola cases reported in the past week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) involved known transmission chains, which is a good sign, but volatile situations still plague the outbreak region, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday in its weekly situation report.
Also, researchers report finding the virus in saliva, but not in a small group of babies born to infected moms.
One of the reagents used in the tests wasn't performing consistently.
Iowa officials confirmed 43 chronic wasting disease (CWD) cases in deer harvested during the 2019-20 season or found dead, with four counties reporting the fatal disease for the first time, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported yesterday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola emergency committee that met today to review the outbreak situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recommended continuing the public health emergency of international concern under International Health Regulations.
