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Safety profile was good, and sensitivity analysis favored delamanid as part of MDR-TB treatment.
Public Health England (PHE) is investigating two cases of extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 2 notification.
Infection rates were 10 times higher in children from an Orthodox Jewish community.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's health ministry today reported two new cases, edging the outbreak total to 627 cases, including 579 confirmed and 48 probable infections. One of the new case-patients is from Oicha, and the other is from Katwa.
Health officials are still investigating 98 suspected Ebola cases.
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who received the seasonal influenza vaccine had a38% reduction in influenza-related hospitalizations compared with those who were unvaccinated. The findings, based on a Canadian study, are published in Chest.
For the flu shot, effectiveness was 67%, and for FluMist it was a not-significant 20%.
The DRC recorded 16 new Ebola cases from towns and cities across North Kivu and Ituri provinces
Researchers in Finland report in a study yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection that the use of oral antibiotics before joint replacement surgery is common and may lower the risk for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), but indiscriminate use of antibiotics before such surgeries cannot be recommended.
Today Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case, the third case connected to a household cluster in Riyadh. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 2 notification.
The DRC update for yesterday reported 2 more deaths, bringing the fatality count to 370.
Nineteen states report high flu-like illness activity, and pediatric deaths rose to 13.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry today reported a new MERS-CoV case, the second case in 2019 and involving a household contact of a previous patient, according to an epidemiologic week 1 notification.
A study today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy shows that online training for general practitioners (GPs) and an online booklet for parents was associated with a decrease in antibiotic prescribing in children with respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and was cost-effective.
"This outbreak is occurring in the most difficult context imaginable," WHO head says.
The most recent imported case to South Korea involved diarrhea but no fever and few respiratory symptoms at first.
The partial government shutdown that began on Dec 22 will have limited impact on most federal public health activities, including flu surveillance and food safety actions, according to official statements and media reports.
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that Novartis has shared data from its discontinued antibiotics development program on Pew's open-access database, known as SPARK (Shared Platform for Antibiotic Research and Knowledge).
With 10 news cases, the outbreak has grown to 608 infections and 368 deaths.
