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The developments lift the outbreak total to 823 cases, including 517 deaths.
Stewardship programs were tied to lower fluoroquinolone prescribing, but some prescribing appeared to shift to after hospital discharge.
A team of dentists, pharmacists, and physicians at the University of Illinois reported today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases that implementation of a comprehensive antibiotic stewardship intervention in a dental practice was associated with a significant improvement in antibiotic prescribing.
Today health officials in Saudi Arabia and Oman reported one new case of MERS-CoV each. This is the sixth case recorded in recent weeks in Oman; in Saudi Arabia, the new case is possibly linked to an ongoing hospital outbreak in Wadi ad-Dawasir.
According to the Muscat Daily yesterday, the Omani Ministry of Health tweeted that a new patient had been diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus).
Also, the health ministry reports 3 more cases in 3 different locations.
Vaccine mistrust after problems with the launch of Dengvaxia is one factor fueling the Philippines' outbreak.
In an ongoing surge of MERS-CoV activity, Saudi Arabia's health ministry today announced nine new cases, including seven that are possibly linked to a hospital outbreak in Wadi ad-Dawasir, according to an update to its epidemiological week 7 report.
New research by scientists with the University of Mississippi Medical Center indicates that 30-day hospital readmission among patients who survived initial hospitalization with Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections is common and costly. The findings appeared yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Researchers are trying to establish how many deaths can be attributed to antibiotic resistance.
The 5 recent Omani cases involve women from North Batinah governorate who lived in the same household.
Over the weekend and through today the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) health ministry reported 16 more lab-confirmed Ebola cases, 13 of them from Katwa, the outbreak's current hot spot. Also, in a Feb 9 update, health officials reported 7 more probable cases, all from Katwa involving people who became ill in November and December and died between November and January.
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that health workers are investigating potential exposures to a drug-resistant Brucella strain RB51 in 19 states. The strain comes from raw (unpasteurized) milk from Miller's Biodiversity Farm in Quarryville, Penn.
Flu is widespread in 47 states, and the CDC reports 4 more pediatric flu deaths.
The new drug is a 'modernized' version of tetracycline, designed to address antibiotic resistance, but its clinical role isn't yet clear.
Transmission can be amplified in health settings when early cases aren't identified and isolated early and when proper infection prevention controls aren't in place.
Today the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) confirmed two new cases of Ebola and three more deaths from the virus in the ongoing outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
Outbreak totals now stand at 800 cases, including 502 deaths, and 178 suspected cases are still under investigation.
The accuracy of tuberculosis (TB) drug-susceptibility testing in high-burden countries was inadequate, and inaccurate test results led to inadequate treatment that contributed to higher mortality in patients with drug-resistant forms of the disease, an international team of researchers reported yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Partial protection from earlier dengue exposure in the favela population might explain Zika's quick decline there.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) health ministry today reported two more Ebola cases, one from Butembo and the other from Kyondo. In addition, 189 suspected cases are under investigation.
