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The study highlights ADE, when previous virus exposure enhances disease response.
A study of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals has found that cases of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) are on the rise, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
In experiments designed to discover reasons for the relatively low effectiveness of last season's flu vaccine against the H3N2 strain—despite what experts thought was a close match between the vaccine strain and circulating viruses—researchers found that the culprit was a mutation that arose during production when the virus was passaged in chicken eggs.
The WHO calls for an overall reduction in the use of antibiotics in food animals.
The proportion of Zika virus–carrying Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes capable of transmitting the virus increased dramatically after a second blood meal, according to data presented today at the 66th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).
Chinese scientists have found that 62% of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) isolates they tested were also resistant to pyrazinamide (PZA), a key drug in treating MDR-TB, according to a study published yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
All three of the Saudi patients are from Riyadh, but none of them are known to have had recent contact with camels.
More than two thirds of adult hospital patients are on the drugs longer than needed.
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) bacteria cause at least 147,000 stillbirths and infant deaths worldwide each year, but providing effective treatment brings up antibiotic resistance and stewardship issues, according to a supplement to Clinical Infectious Diseases published today.
The Florida Department of Health (Florida Health) on Nov 3 said a sexually transmitted Zika infection has been confirmed in Miami-Dade County, affecting a person whose partner had recently traveled to several countries, including Cuba, where active transmission is occurring.
Using just 1 drug instead of 2 could go a long way in curbing azithromycin use.
Two studies report high mortality rates in wild birds and unprecedented rapid genetic reassortment.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Results from a survey published yesterday in Eurosurveillance indicate more frequent detection and greater geographical dispersion of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in Europe.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported three new infections involving novel influenza A viruses, two of them variant H3N2 (H3N2v) and one variant H1N2 (H1N2v), with possible human-to-human transmission in one of the cases.
The MDR strains emerged earlier and are more widespread than thought.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) today announced the first two recipients to receive its Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence (COE) designation: Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., and Summa Health, based in Akron, Ohio.
Madagascar's number of confirmed and suspected plague infections has climbed to 1,801, including 127 deaths, over the past few days, with the number of new cases from the pneumonic form of the disease continuing to decline, according to the latest situation report from the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa.
Gaps the GAO identified include instances of agencies overseeing their own labs, a need for more focus on the highest-risk activities, and understaffing.
CARB-X announced today that it's awarding $168,000 to Integrated Biotherapeutics to develop a vaccine for the prevention of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV infection yesterday and today and the death of a previously reported patient.
A 49-year-old Saudi man from Unayzah is in critical condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), the MOH reported yesterday. The man had indirect contact with camels, a known risk factor for MERS.
