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Few resources address when contact precautions can be stepped back, and hospital approaches vary.
An "interactive massive open online course" (MOOC) on antimicrobial stewardship was taken by 32,944 people in 163 countries and was rated highly by its participants, most of whom were healthcare professionals, according to a report this week in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
China has reported its second human H7N9 avian influenza infection of the season, in a 72-year-old man from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who died from his illness, Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) said in a statement today, based on information from the mainland.
So far the CDC probe hasn't pointed to a specific food type to guide consumers.
The compound worked on biofilms, which are important causes of chronic and recurring bacterial infections.
A growing number of vaccine makers are expressing concerns about their ability to quickly develop new vaccine candidates against emerging disease threat, such as Zika and Ebola viruses, Stat reported today, based on interviews with pharmaceutical executives, government officials, and infectious disease experts.
Scientists from Italy today reported detecting the worrisome colistin-resistance gene MCR-4 in two isolates of Salmonella from people, only the second time the gene has been reported and the first time in humans, according to their report in Eurosurveillance.
Since 2016 the CDC has provided $144 million to state and local health departments to address antibiotic resistance.
The therapy, which uses cattle antibodies to treat the virus in humans, has shown to be safe and well-tolerated.
A study shows avian flu virus detections rising in poultry in Cambodian live-bird markets.
About 11% of a population sampled in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had Zaire Ebola virus (EBOV) immunoglobulin G antibodies, providing serological evidence of Ebola prevalence in populations not currently experiencing an Ebola outbreak.
A study yesterday by experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the incidence of Clostridium difficile in long-term care facilities decreased 17.5% annually from 2011 to 2015 at 10 US sites, along with a concomitant decline in inpatient fluoroquinolone use.
The Trump administration is making no effort to prioritize game-changing flu vaccines, the experts say.
No conclusions about potential impacts on human health can be drawn from the study.
Yesterday and today the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced four new cases of MERS-CoV in different cities across the country, including one involving a health worker.
It is Iraq's first H5N8 outbreak since 2016, and Afghanistan's first since 2007.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded two new cases of MERS-CoV in Riyadh in recent days.
On Jan 5, a 48-year-old Saudi man from the country's capital was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) after presenting with symptoms. He is in stable condition. The MOH said the man had direct contact with camels, a known risk factor for MERS-CoV.
A case-control study by German investigators has found that nosocomial infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are costlier than those caused by vancomycin-susceptible enterococci (VSE), according to a new study in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
Two groups gauge the threat of H5N6 avian flu to mammals and poultry.
