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The Illinois-based Joint Commission, which accredits healthcare facilities for receipt of Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements, has created five new performance measures for antimicrobial stewardship requirements in ambulatory care centers, the commission announced yesterday.
The WHO reports a worrying spike in activity in Mabalako, one of the smaller hot spots, as cases top 2,200.
Antimicrobials are needed to ensure food security, but they need to be used responsibly, an FAO official says.
Health officials in Saudi Arabia today reported another MERS-CoV case, which involves a 70-year-old man from Medina who had recent contact with camels.
The country's Ministry of Health (MOH) classified the patient's illness as primary, meaning he likely didn't contract MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) from another patient. Contact with camels is a known risk factor for contracting the disease.
A study involving nine emergency departments and acute care centers in California and Colorado found that educating physicians and patients about safe antibiotic use was tied to a 34% drop in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, but the absolute reduction was fairly small because levels were already low to begin with.
Most samples from wildlife in Nairobi carried multidrug-resistant E coli.
Skepticism remains in some high-income nations, with France having the lowest trust in vaccines.
A study over four flu seasons of influenza and other respiratory illnesses at nine Canadian hospitals found that 95% of health providers have worked while sick, often when symptoms were mild or began during the workday. Researchers reported their findings yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
WHO director: "All countries must strike a balance between ensuring access to life-saving antibiotics and slowing drug resistance."
With 13 new cases today, the DRC outbreak has reached 2,181 infections, 1,459 deaths.
A diagnostic accuracy study has determined that the T2Bacteria Panel rapidly and accurately diagnoses bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by five common pathogenic bacteria, according to a study today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
The World Health Organization (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean regional office (EMRO) recently published its monthly snapshot of MERS-CoV activity, which covers 14 cases reported for May and one cluster, all in Saudi Arabia.
Of the 14 patients, 4 died from their MERS-CoV Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infections, all of them men who had underlying health conditions.
CDC experts also highlight the spread of measles in Europe, consequences for travelers, and advice for clinicians.
With 48 cases in 3 days in the DR Congo, totals have grown to 2,168 cases, including 1,440 deaths, for a 66% fatality rate.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) recently reported a new MERS-CoV case, which involves a 71-year-old woman from the capital city of Riyadh.
The woman's contact with camels isn't known, and authorities have classified her exposure to MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) as primary, meaning she probably wasn't exposed to another sick patient, according to an update to the MOH's epidemiologic week 24 report.
One patient is dead and one ill after contracting drug-resistant E coli after FMT.
The panel expressed serious worry over the threat to the region and over funding.
The sample was from 2014, so the discovery has implications for the US spread of colistin resistance.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) yesterday issued a health alert about an increase in carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE) cases this year. After detecting 7 each year in 2017 and 2018, officials have already confirmed 12 CP-CRE infections so far this year.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
