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The test may be useful in CWD surveillance, the authors say.
The modeling study estimates that annual AMR deaths will rise steadily in the coming years without better, more accessible healthcare and new antibiotics.
The agreement, using a new emergency funding mechanism, would secure 500,000 doses for delivery in 2024.
Adding COVID-19–specific guidance to an established stewardship program helped cut antibiotic use by 29% after the first COVID surge.
The CDC received reports of 22 more imported cases over the past week, raising the total to 74 from 5 states.
Researchers found that 41% of Campylobacter isolates from poultry in Kenya and Tanzania were resistant to 3 or more antibiotics.
Also, the UK details its response plan that includes shoring up vaccine supplies, and US officials spell out the country's mpox research agenda.
Ninety percent of respondents said that, as a whole, the world is better prepared to fight the next pandemic.
A study suggesting that nirmatrelvir/ritonavir and molnupiravir don't prevent severe COVID-19 outcomes or long COVID is also being called into question.
Most of the kids who died were unvaccinated, and about half had no underlying health conditions.
Massachusetts is the only state to test all dairies, which involved bulk-milk tank sampling in August.
New WHO guidance aims to help countries address key gender disparities in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of drug-resistant infections.
Like most other H9N2 cases, China's latest illness involves a young child.
Most of the roughly 7,100 patients were prescribed tecovirimat for the treatment of lesions in sensitive areas, such as the anogenital region, and for pain.
The model considered both at-risk patients and those who would benefit most from treatments.
Also, sequencing confirmed N1 and identified two HA mutations, one of which could affect vaccine development.
Tests are under way on samples from five contacts who reported symptoms.
Researchers say the findings from a sysematic review and meta-analysis of 56 studies could help expand penicillin allergy delabeling efforts.
A multifaceted stewardship intervention at Mayo Clinic reduced inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by 50% without diminishing patient satisfaction.
Patients exposed to a sick roommate or unit mate in the geriatric psychiatric unit were 6 times more likely to become infected.
