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With Arizona, Mississippi, and South Carolina now affected, poultry losses will soon set a record.
A study of electronic health record (EHR) data from a US hospital network found that more than a third of antibiotic prescriptions for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (uUTIs) were inappropriate or suboptimal, researchers reported late last week in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the most commonly used class of antidepressants in the United States, don't appear to prevent severe COVID-19 or death among outpatients, according to a study presented this week at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions in Chicago.
Neutralizing antibodies were about fourfold higher than with Pfizer's original COVID vaccine.
Muliple respiratory viruses are already straining health systems, with children among the hardest hit groups.
Black children made up 47% of the 83 pediatric patients, with Latinos making up 35%.
A study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Michigan found that procalcitonin (PCT) trends were associated with the decision to initiate antibiotics and duration of treatment, independent of bacterial pneumonia (bPNA) status, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In a new study in BMC Medicine, Dutch researchers report that, 12 months after illness onset, people with initially moderate to severe COVID-19 still had impaired health-related quality of life (HRQL), but the same was not true for mild COVID-19.
An investigational antibiotic for uncomplicated urinary tract infections met trial goals.
Data show 53% of infections are transmitted 1 to 4 days before symptoms appear.
One report details a massive NYC effort to probe 941,035 COVID-19 cases and follow up with their contacts.
COVID-19 vaccination of children in Qatar was tied to low to modest, rapidly waning protection against infection with the Omicron variant, but teens had slightly more robust, longer-lasting immunity, suggests a study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
Flu activity is starting to rise in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including Europe and North America, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update, which covers data through Oct 16.
Those with chronic high blood pressure (BP) saw small but consequential BP increases during COVID-19.
Two new infections an 9 new deaths raise the outbreak total to 130 cases, 43 of them fatal.
A new study published in eClinicalMedicine analyzed 19 studies on monkeypox, which included 7,553 reported cases, among which there were 555 hospitalizations. The meta-analysis suggests monkeypox patients have a 14.1% hospitalization rate.
Americans who received an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine after SARS-CoV-2 infection are more likely to experience severe systemic adverse events (AEs) than their never-infected counterparts, according to a study published yesterday in Vaccine.
Factors that contributed to higher death rates Blacks persisted, but adherence to protective measures widened along political lines, lifting fatalities in Whites.
The study took place during Mali's malaria season, and findings suggest the treatment is worth pursuing.
