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Adhering to antibiotic guidelines was associated with favorable outcomes in terms of mortality and length of hospital stay among patients in Norway, according to a study yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
US cases have climbed to 555 and at the current pace would eclipse 2014's total within weeks.
Vaccine efficacy was 97.5%, as cases reach 1,264 and deaths top 800.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case over the weekend in an update to its epidemiologic week 15 report.
On Apr 13, the MOH noted that a 75-year-old woman from Khafji had contracted MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) as a secondary case, meaning likely not from another MERS patient. It's unknown if she had camel contact.
New research presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) annual meeting suggests an association between antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and climate change.
Case counts climb to 109, making it the 3rd-largest E coli outbeak in 20 years.
Canadian data show that kids under 10 years may be especially vulnerable to the H1N1 strain.
Antibiotics were offered for 91% of UTI patients, but only 36% had clinical or lab evidence of one.
While the WHO defends the decision, some experts question the call—as cases keep mounting.
An outbreak of 2009 H1N1 seasonal flu in a remote indigenous hill tribe in Laos killed 16 people and triggered a quick response from local health officials in Thailand, according to a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which also assisted.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 11
"The anti-vaccine movement is like its own media empire."
MDRO contamination rates ranged from 11.9% to 28.5% across 6 facilities.
About half of all camel salesmen had MERS-CoV antibodies, and Saudi Arabia reports 3 new cases.
A 20-case day follows an 18-case day, and totals have now topped 1,200.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released a new Zika risk assessment today, concluding that, while transmission has slowed in the Americas, the virus is widespread in Asia.
The assessment was conducted, in part, to update travel guidelines for Europeans visiting a country with endemic Zika or experiencing an outbreak.
Chinese and US researchers report today in Clinical Infectious Diseases that macrolide use is associated with an almost double rate of antibiotic resistance in urethritis caused by Mycoplasma genitalium in men, and a related commentary questions whether it's time for the US and Canada to reconsider macrolides as first-line empiric treatment for men with symptomatic urethritis.
Officials have confirmed 105 cases so far in April, and 1,186 in the outbreak to date.
Though success has been shown in only 2 patients, recruitment of more patients is under way.
A multistate Escherichia coli O103 outbreak from a still-unidentified source has sickened 24 more people, with 96 cases reported so far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. The number of affected states remained at five: Kentucky (46 cases), Tennessee (26), Georgia (17), Ohio (5), and Virginia (2).
