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Two phase 3 trials showed that a human mononoclonal antibody cut recurrence about 40%.
More than 90% of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals have developed written antimicrobial stewardship policies, and the agency's Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative has cut antibiotic use 12% overall so far, VHA officials noted yesterday in an analysis in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
With H7N9 cases in China in January already outpacing December's sudden and steep rise, China reported at least two more cases today, according to the latest official reports.
Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP) today acknowledged two cases reported from Hubei province yesterday, a 65 year-old man and a 78 year-old woman from two different cities, both in critical condition.
Though a UK C diff spike was thought to be caused by dirty hospital rooms, that theory proved unlikely.
The UK reported H5N8 avian flu on a pheasant farm housing 10,000 birds.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported a new case of MERS-CoV in the city of Jeddah.
A 48-year-old expatriate man is in critical condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus).The source of his infection is listed as primary, meaning he did not contract the disease from another person.
With novel H7N9 avian influenza cases in China this month already topping an early, steep surge seen in December, two provinces reported four more cases, according to official sources, as US officials posted a travel alert because of the spike in infections.
Many questions remain about how the highly adaptable virus infiltrates farms and spreads.
The number of suspected yellow fever cases in Brazil is climbing quickly, with 421 suspected infections and two more states reporting cases, the health ministry said yesterday in a statement. The case total reflects an increase of 215 cases from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) update on Jan 18.
In addition, Italy reports more H5N8 and Germany has an H5N5 poultry outbreak.
The 111 cases reported in the first half of January have already topped December's total.
Experts say the policy may not have a huge impact and worry about how it's interpreted.
Over the weekend and through today, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported three new cases of MERS-CoV, two of which were linked to camel exposure.
Flu markers rose again last week, with disease activity now widespread in 29 states.
TB resistant to at least 4 antibiotics is primarily spreading person to person in South Africa.
In its weekly Zika update, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday reported only 34 new cases of the mosquito-borne disease in the United States this week, bringing the total to 4,900.
Of those cases, 4,682 are travel-related and 217 were locally acquired. There are 1,347 pregnant women with confirmed Zika in the United States, and 2,885 such women in US territories.
A case report on an immunocompromised patient with prolonged influenza virus in yesterday's Eurosurveillance reveals resistance to two common antiviral drugs and shows how rapidly antiviral resistance can evolve, a finding the authors say highlights the importance of rapid antiviral resistance testing.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
CEPI, a vaccine development partnership, was created in the wake of Ebola.
In some hard-hit areas, sampling of poultry environments in December showed increased virus levels compared with that time in past waves.
