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An analysis of 40 human H7N9 avian flu clusters from five waves of disease activity in China found a stable pattern in number and size, suggesting that the human-to-human transmission risk hasn't changed since the virus emerged in 2013. A team from China and their collaborators at the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention reported its findings yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program was associated with lower use of antimicrobials deemed high risk and some reduction in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), according to a single-center study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
The CDC says everyone who consumed milk from Udder Milk in the past 6 months should receive antibiotics.
The new parasite is closely related to Plasmodium falciparum, which causes malaria in humans.
The number of reported Candida auris infections in the United States has risen to 157, according to the most recent case count from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Experiments in guinea pigs to explore possible routes of Zika transmission found that infected animals can pass the virus to healthy cagemates, perhaps through tears or saliva, researchers from China reported today in Nature Communications.
In South Korea, H5N6 developments in poultry prompted a move to the highest avian flu alert level.
Isolates shared a background that took shape in 2006, when MCR-1 was first mobilized.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV over the weekend.
Commitments included scaling up research investments and building a framework for country accountability on steps to reach the declaration's goals.
Over 90% of the world's population live in a nation that has created or is working on an action plan.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) this week launched an Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) in Primary Care and hospital guidelines on multidisciplinary prescribing as two key steps in rolling out the Hong Kong Strategy and Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV infection in Az Zulfi in the central part of the country near Riyadh.
Scientists can't be sure phage therapy saved a man's life, but it holds much promise in treating dangerous superbugs.
Analysis of blood samples provides clues about how the disease unfolds and which patients are more likely to die.
Tests on a traditional healer in Kenya who was a contact of one of the lab-confirmed Uganda Marburg patients has tested negative, and other high-risk contacts in Kenya have completed their 21-day monitoring periods, with no other illnesses detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
Canadian researchers have identified a ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhea isolate in a Canadian patient, according to a new report in Emerging Infectious Diseases. It's one of only a handful of ceftriaxone-resistant N gonorrhea isolates reported worldwide.
The report shows increasing trends in several bacteria, most notably in rates of combined resistance for E coli.
The first-ever global guidelines aim to prevent 3 types of superbugs in healthcare settings.
