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Several factors heighten the risk of spread, including flooding, people and animal movement, and connections to other countries.
After officials received more test results from suspected cases, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) dropped their Ebola case count to 55, including 28 deaths. There are now 38 confirmed cases, 14 probable cases, and 3 suspected cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update.
The outbreak total stands at 66, including 38 confirmed, 14 probable, and 14 suspected cases.
Scientists report the first isolation of hypervirulent, multi-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in the US.
A small study in Clinical Infectious Diseases has found that coinfection with influenza and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is associated with high mortality in critically ill children, and that mortality was more than five times higher in children who received vancomycin monotherapy, a finding the authors say supports treatment with additional antibiotics in severe cases.
Health officials reported a total of 12 MERS-CoV cases in May, according to an overview published today by the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Eastern Mediterranean office. Eleven cases are from Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates recorded one.
"The response is having an impact in ... two locations," a WHO official says.
Fully 41% of antibiotic prescriptions written for patients with ARIs were inappropriate.
In what appears to be an underreported outbreak, officials with Public Health England (PHE) yesterday in Eurosurveillance detailed 118 laboratory-confirmed cases of high-level azithromycin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae, noting that cases emerged among heterosexuals in Leeds but then spread across England and into networks of men who have sex with men (MSM).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevent (CDC) today said it is investigating several Salmonella outbreaks totaling 124 cases in 36 states linked to contact with backyard poultry flocks.
At-risk nations share the Congo River, Bikoro Lake, and porous borders with the DRC.
The guidance is intended for institutions, accreditation and licensing bodies, and policy makers.
Spending public health money on surveillance rather than on broad, expensive genomic surveys of animal diseases is a sounder investment and better way to prepare for the next pandemic or other global health emergency, three infectious disease experts wrote today in Nature.
People who inject recreational drugs are 16.3 times more likely to develop invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections than people who do not inject drugs, according to data published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR).
The WHO says clinicians in treatment centers will make decisions on what drugs to use, based on what's most helpful to patients and with patients' informed consent.
The report says 6.9 million pounds of critical antibiotics are sold for pig use in a year.
The US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released new data showing that national efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions, including adverse drug events and infections, helped prevent an estimated 8,000 deaths and save $2.9 billion from 2014 through 2016.
Adding ultraviolet light to standard room cleaning modestly decreases hospital-wide superbugs.
University of Washington and University of Oxford experts yesterday announced the inclusion of mortality and morbidity data related to drug-resistant infections into the annual Global Burden of Disease Study, part of a new antimicrobial resistance (AMR) project "to provide rigorous quantitative evidence of the burden of AMR, to increase awareness of AMR, to support better surveillance of AMR, and to foster the rat
