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Though the reports yield timely, useful clues, experts note important lessons, lingering questions, and concerns about preparedness.
From 2011 to 2022, average annual incidence of the rare bacterial zoonotic disease increased by 56% over the previous surveillance period.
Eighteen workers with blastomycosis were hospitalized (12%), and 1 patient died.
Though testing can't pinpoint a source, recent detections in Arizona have involved only the wild bird genotype.
Vaccine effectiveness was similar across disease severity levels.
A review and meta-analysis of data from 28 countries found significant increases in resistance to clarithromycin, metronidazole, and amoxicillin from 2020 to 2023.
Among community-dwelling older adults in Ontario, longer outpatient antibiotic courses were not associated with a greater risk of harm or than shorter courses.
Approximately 40% of participants did not seroconvert or achieve a conservative neutralization threshold post-vaccination.
Further tests found seasonal flu, rhinovirus, COVID, and other common respiratory viruses, alongside malaria and complications from malnutrition.
The changes seen were likely generated by replication of this virus in the patient rather than primarily transmitted at the time of infection, the authors say.
Genetic sequencing confirmed that the virus recovered from the raw pet food, sold nationally and in BC, and the infected cat were exact matches.
RSV activity remains high, with pediatric hospitalizations increasing across most of the country.
In more than 8,000 UK pneumonia patients, researchers found no evidence adjunctive macrolides lowered 30-day mortality or shortened time to hospital discharge.
The disease was confirmed in a dead cow elk near Jackson, Wyoming, and a hunter-harvested deer in Alabama's Colbert County.
52% of adults think the vaccine given to pregnant individuals to protect their infants from RSV is effective, up 10 percentage points from 42% in October of 2023.
The FDA upgraded a voluntary recall of organic, pasture-raised eggs sold by Costco stores to Class I, the agency's highest risk level, over Salmonella concerns.
Also, 2 groups report impacts on both domestic and wild cats, as federal officials confirm a flurry of new outbreaks in poultry.
Three of every 4 patients did not return to prior health within 60 weeks of the initial infection.
The multivalent toxoid vaccine candidate from LimmaTech Biologics AG is designed to prevent skin and soft-tissue infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus.
In patients with Enterobacterales BSIs, early phenotype-desirable antimicrobial therapy was associated with better 30-day outcomes than delayed therapy.
