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A multifaceted outpatient stewardship intervention at Veterans Affairs primary care clinics in Pennsylvania was associated with sustained reductions in overall, unnecessary, and suboptimal antibiotic prescription rates for up to a year after some components were discontinued, researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
After 2 new attacks, Doctors Without Borders pulls its staff from Biakato.
Outpatient visits for influenza-like illnesses jump from 2.9% to 3.5%.
A review of national documents shows that fewer than half of European countries have implemented publicly accessible mandatory surveillance of at least one of the World Health Organization's (WHO's) priority pathogens, European researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Afghanistan has one new case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), and Angola recorded 16 new cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) according to the latest weekly report from the Global Polio Eradication Intuitive (GPEI).
The efficacy of the conjugate vaccine was thus 82%, and it had a good safety profile.
Measles cases skyrocketed 167% from 2016 to 2018, and deaths climbed from 110,000 in 2017 to 140,000 last year.
The emergency stockpile is part of efforts to streamline response to the next outbreak.
Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 35 more people have been sickened in an Escherichia coli outbreak tied to romaine lettuce grown near Salinas, California.
The outbreak total now stands at 102 illnesses in 23 states, with 4 states reporting their first cases.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved a new test to diagnose methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which will allow health workers to screen patients for MRSA colonization more quickly—in as little as 5 hours compared with 24 to 48 hours for traditional culture-based tests.
Rapid, biomarker-guided tests did not help cut antibiotic use in ICU patients.
Overall progress has stalled since 2014, with a large gap in funding as the main culprit, but there are bright spots.
Public Health England (PHE) today confirmed that a person in the southwest of England has been diagnosed as having monkeypox, likely contracted after a recent visit to Nigeria.
The United Kingdom documented its first cases of the rare virus last year, in two patients who also likely contracted the disease in Nigeria, plus a case involving a healthcare worker—the first instance of spread of the disease in the country.
Modified nets treated with the insecticide fenitrothion killed 29% more malaria mosquitoes than standard nets.
In recent days officials have confirmed 10 Ebola deaths in the community, which elevate the risk of disease spread.
A study of Australian children has found that only 1 in 5 with a reported non–beta-lactam antibiotic (NBLA) allergy had a true allergy, Australian researchers reported today in Pediatrics.
Federal health officials today said 2 more hepatitis A infections have been reported in an outbreak linked to fresh blackberries from Fresh Thymes markets, raising the total to 16. One more state—Missouri—is reporting a case, putting the number of affected states at six.
Pakistan has now reported 91 WPV1 cases this year, a sharp increase from 12 last year.
All WHO staff have been removed from Biakato Mines and relocated.
