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Adapting COVID-19 standards of care to evolving information about optimal treatments may have shortened recovery and reduced deaths.
Rates of antimicrobial resistance in urinary E coli isolates are rising in both hospitals and the community.
Six states reported more highly pathogenic avian flu outbreaks in poultry flocks over the past few days, including three that reported large losses in commercial poultry, according to updates from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).
The research team was surprised at how prevalent stigma was, with levels higher in those with a clinical diagnosis.
Flu activity is very high or high across most of the continental United States.
A large international study found antibiotic use in newborns was disproportinate compared with the burden of early-onset sepsis.
The latest case is the stillborn baby of a mother who survived Ebola.
The changes target racist and stigmitizing language surrounding a term that came into use in 1970.
The agreement paves the way for bold, specific committments at a UN high level AMR meeting in 2024.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 23
Protection against Omicron reinfection was lowest, at 60%.
Of 35 million who have gotten their booster shots, 16 million were seniors.
The boosters confer 28% to 56% more protection against symptomatic infections than 2 to 4 doses of the original vaccines, a new study estimates.
The latest outbreaks put the nation's poultry losses for the year at 50.5 million, which ties the record set in the outbreaks of 2015.
The phase 3 trial will test the efficacy of ganaplacide/lumefantrine-SDF against standard treatment, including against drug-resistant malaria.
Data that are not yet peer-reviewed indicate that a single Jynneos vaccine dose provides 78% protection against monkeypox 14 days or more after vaccination.
Canada saw an increase in the sales of antibiotics for use in food production animals in 2020, a new report finds.
Amid a shortage of the antibiotic amoxicillin, the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued guidance on alternatives to the oral powder formulation for suspension.
The trial will investigate whether an early IV-to-oral transition improves outcomes in patients with gram-negative bloodstream infections.
Adult US COVID-19 patients who received the antiviral drug Paxlovid within 5 days after diagnosis had a 51% lower hospitalization rate than nonrecipients.
