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The genes, including NDM-1, were found in an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.
Four of the 7 new cases were reported in Katwa, the latest outbreak hot spot.
A meta-analysis of 15 studies published yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy concluded that antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) involving pharmacists are effective in decreasing antibiotic prescribing and increasing guideline-adherent antibiotic prescribing by general practitioners (GPs).
Two Middle East countries reported new MERS-CoV cases today, including four in Oman and one in Saudi Arabia, according to separate health ministry announcements.
The outbreak has now claimed 459 lives, and one family has had 21 cases.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee on Jan 25 declared a public health emergency as a step to boost its response to a measles outbreak that has now sickened 34 in the Vancouver area, with 1 case confirmed in King County in the Seattle area.
With 6 new cases in Katwa, outbreak totals now stand at 721, including 446 deaths.
All 10 US regions are showing elevated flulike illness, and pediatric deaths have reached 22.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry today reported two more MERS-CoV cases, both involving men from Riyadh who apparently didn't have exposure to camels or people with known infections.
In its update to its epidemiologic week 4 report, the ministry said the patients, ages 53 and 69, are both hospitalized for their MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infections.
The Bon Appetit Management Company, which in 2003 became the first US food service company to pledge to reduce antibiotic use in the animals it uses for food, has updated and streamlined its antibiotics policy, which for the first time includes seafood.
The plan calls for a 10% reduction in antibiotic-resistant infections in people by 2025.
The illnesses bring the overall outbreak total to 715, including 443 deaths.
A New York resident who drank raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy has contracted the nation's third known case of brucellosis caused by the antibiotic-resistant Brucella RB51 strain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in a Health Alert Network (HAN) notice. The previous two illnesses occurred in 2017.
Today in Eurosurveillance, researchers published the first estimates of vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the 2018-19 seasonal flu vaccine administered in Canada, showing that overall VE was 68% in a season driven by influenza A(H1N1) viruses and 72% against the predominant strain.
Outcomes were similar in the 2 groups, but oral-step-down patients had shorter stays.
Thirteen of 18 health zones in the region have reported cases in the past 3 weeks, and deaths have reached 439.
Dengue immunity, however, doesn't seem to generally protect against Zika infection, the researchers find.
According to a series of tweets made by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, the agency is trying its best to handle food safety inspections and other critical work during what has become the nation's longest government shutdown.
Experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control that establishing nationwide antibiotic stewardship programs to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in hospitals would result in an annual net benefit of $25.5 billion.
The number of confirmed cases in the DRC has jumped by 19 in recent days.
