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Washington state's Clark County, which is part of the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area, has declared a public health emergency related to a measles outbreak, with 22 cases confirmed so far, along with 3 more suspected cases.
A new study by Emory University researchers reports that more than half of the patients visiting primary care clinics in the university's healthcare network with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) received antibiotics, with substantial variation in prescribing rates by site and provider. The findings were published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Three more pediatric flu deaths were reported, bringing to 19 the number of deaths in children this season.
Japanese researchers describe two H3N2 flu viruses with mutations that may increase antiviral resistance.
A total of 62.4% of patients taking tafenoquine were free of P vivax after 6 months.
Contrafect Corporation announced yesterday that it has received an additional $2.3 million in funding over the next 2 years from CARB-X for the development of a phage lysin therapy to treat drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
Ebola infections have been confirmed in 12 more people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including 6 in Katwa, one of the more recent hot spots, the country's health ministry said today.
Experts found 23.2% of antibiotics were inappropriate, but many other prescriptions fell in gray areas.
Peter Salama says high rates in children might be due to facility types.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday posted a summary of five MERS-CoV cases reported by Saudi Arabia during December, covering new clinical details that weren't included in initial reports.
About one fourth of children younger than age 2 who are seen in US emergency departments (EDs) for bronchiolitis, a common viral lung infection in that age-group, received an antibiotic prescription, despite 2006 recommendations against the treatment in the absence of documented bacterial infection.
Oral antibiotic prescribing by dermatologists fell 37% from 2008 through 2016, but use in some areas rose.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak grew by five cases today, with illnesses reported in four different location, according to the health ministry's daily update.
Italian researchers report that an antimicrobial stewardship program based on a clinical pathway (CP) was associated with both an improved choice of antibiotic and duration of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis (PAP) in pediatric surgical patients. The findings appeared yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
About 400 staffers have returned from furlough, 150 of them for food inspections.
The new cases and 6 new deaths bring the outbreak total to 658 and the fatality count to 402, with 200 cases still being investigated.
The review recommends categorizing patients into low-, medium-, and high-risk.
Today Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 3 notification.
A study of pig farms in nine European countries suggests antimicrobial use during the fattening phase is associated with antimicrobial resistance, researchers from the European Union Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission (EFFORT) project reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
