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Analysis of a 2015-16 cluster highlights living conditions and healthcare spread.
With 21 new cases, 2019 US measles totals rise to 1,203 in 30 states.
With 27 new infections in the past 3 days, the outbreak has grown to 2,888 cases and 1,934 deaths.
Postprescription audit and review showed more promise than preauthorization.
A study by Italian investigators in Clinical Microbiology and Infection has found that commercial methods for testing carbapenem susceptibility produced widely variable results in a sample of carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli, with none satisfying the criteria for acceptable antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) performance.
A multistate Cyclospora outbreak linked to fresh basil imported from Mexico has sickened 73 more people, increasing the total to 205 infections, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an Aug 15 update.
The outbreak has now grown to 2,861 cases, including 1,913 deaths, as the UN announces more funding.
In new polio developments, Pakistan reported five more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases and four African countries reported more circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases, including the first in Benin, according to the latest weekly update today from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
CARB-X yesterday announced additional funding to expand development of a vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
An analysis of data from routine antibiotic susceptibility testing in 30 European countries shows a strong correlation between the rates of intrinsically antibiotic-resistant bacterial species and the rates of acquired resistance in gram-negative bacterial species, a team of European researchers reported today in Eurosurveillance.
According to the World Health Organization's (WHO) online dashboard, 10 new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising the outbreak total to 2,852, and 380 suspected cases are still under investigation.
Fatalities have passed the 1,900 mark, to stand at 1,905, after seven new deaths from the virus were confirmed today.
The shorter, simpler regimen with the new drug is poised to improve treatment against a difficult disease and to lower costs.
Burundi yesterday began vaccinating front-line workers against Ebola, part of efforts to prepare for possible Ebola cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said today in a statement. The country's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is southeast of the main outbreak area, and vaccination with VSV-EBOV began at the Gatumba entry point.
US Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, yesterday reintroduced legislation to strengthen the federal government's response to antibiotic resistance.
Genomic analysis suggests C difficile strains that have spread in hospitals belong to an emerging species.
Earlier the summer, the CDC warned doctors to be alert for AFM cases that seem to rise late summer and fall alongside enterovirus activity.
Also, insecurity flares again in Beni, with suspected ADF attacks and resulting community protests.
A modeling study that incorporated air movement patterns from farms affected early in the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza outbreak that hit US poultry in 2015 suggests that most affected farms in Iowa may have received airborne virus from farms within and outside the state.
The addition of a beta-lactam antibiotic to daptomycin is associated with improved clinical outcomes in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (MRSA BSIs), researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
