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Argentina reports record deaths as activity continues to flare in places like Brazil, areas of Central America, and some Caribbean islands.
Long-haul COVID-19 was associated with severe or very severe symptoms, low income, and some age-groups, but was common even in those with mild symptoms, with a quarter of patients in that group having symptoms after 60 days, according to a Clinical Infectious Diseases study today that looked at adult Michigan patients.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding Swiss drug maker Basilea Pharmaceutica International up to $2.7 million to develop a novel class of antibiotics to treat gram-negative bacterial infections.
Though the pandemic is ebbing in the US, those getting sick and hospitalized are skewing younger.
One study evaluates vaccine allocation plans, and the other reveals urban vs rural inequities.
The rate of multidrug-resistant organisms in organic meat was more than 50% lower than in conventional.
Some other Asian nations are facing their biggest surges of the pandemic, and 7 African nations report notable rises.
Fewer high-risk outpatients with mild or moderate COVID-19 needed hospitalization or died within 28 days when given bamlanivimab soon after infection compared with their matched peers, finds an observational study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding up to $4.1 million to Summit Therapeutics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a first-in-class antibiotic to treat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.
"While the situation in India is tragic, it is not unique." Surging cases are taxing healthcare systems.
For the first time since the pandemic started, all states are reporting declining cases.
Convalescent plasma did not improve survival or other important outcomes.
An investigation into a Listeria moncytogenes outbreak linked to a New Jersey company's queso fresco cheese has ended, with 14 cases reported in four states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said May 14 in a final update.
Almost two thirds of homeless patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were of non-White descent and more than 80% had at least one comorbidity, according to a descriptive study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases yesterday.
In the UK, quickly rising B1617.2 cases in some areas have triggered surge testing and other actions.
The studies assess whether tube placement is needed for recurrent ear infections and if stewardship practices can cut back on delayed antibiotic prescriptions.
Some say they need to confer with health officials to weigh local transmission status and risks.
Scientists also detected binding and neutralizing antibodies in infant cord blood and in breast milk, which were somewhat reduced for variants.
A rapid, cartridge-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) platform developed by scientists at Johns Hopkins University for detecting gonorrhea infections and providing antibiotic susceptibility results showed promising results in a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
