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Merck's rVSV-ZEBOV is the only vaccine that will be used during the ever-growing outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today reported nine new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), and, for the first time in more than a year, China has confirmed a case of vaccine-derived poliovirus.
In addition, Angola has a new circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) case.
A cost-effectiveness analysis indicates a Staphylococcus aureus decolonization protocol for patients undergoing hip and knee replacement could result in cost savings and fewer surgical-site infections (SSIs), Canadian researchers reported yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The new cases raise the number of infected healthcare workers to 132, 68% of whom are nurses.
Antibiotic prescribing guided by C-reactive protein testing resulted in a lower rate of those drugs for COPD exacerbations in Britain.
A survey of antimicrobial use reduction goals for human medicine in 30 countries has found that, as of 2017, less than a third had established targets, according to an article today in Eurosurveillance.
Researchers from Ontario followed more than 100,000 live births for 5 years after the 2009-10 flu season and found no adverse health outcomes in children exposed to prenatal 2009 pandemic (pH1N1) flu vaccination, according to a study yesterday in BMJ.
CDC reverse-engineers the virus for important trials of interventions.
The agency says prompt reporting is key to help figure out the cause of the mysterious limb-weakening condition.
The idea is to delink profit from the volume sold, pay for antibiotics based on their public health value, and encourage development of new antibiotics.
The efficacy of malaria vaccine RTS,S/AS01 in infants and children is sustained for up to 7 years after vaccination, according to an extension study published Jul 9 in The Lancet Infectious Diseases following a previous phase 3 study.
The rate of antibiotic prescribing and the proportion of patients receiving antibiotics in primary care settings in England declined consistently from 2014 through 2017, researchers from King's College London reported yesterday in BMJ Open.
Ceftazidime-avibactam, meropenem-vaborbactam, and plazomicin were added as "reserve" antibiotics.
Fully 67.8% of patients received antibiotics for longer than recommended.
The drug was active against flu A, B, C, and D, as well as avian and swine strains.
As many as 1,465 cases and 293 to 520 deaths from MERS-CoV may have been averted.
In one group, 35% scored below average for language, 10% for cognitive development, and 16% for motor development.
In an interview with The Guardian, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the political climate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is preventing an end to the current Ebola outbreak.
With 29 new cases over the weekend and today, outbreak totals climb to 2,418, and Ebola deaths have now reached 1,625.
