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An estimated 541,000 annual deaths are tied to superbugs, with 133,000 direct deaths.
A study of antibiotic consumption in European hospitals found increasing use of antibiotics reserved for the most difficult-to-treat infections, researchers reported yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
A study of 30 million people in the United Kingdom finds that 0.4% of people who completed their primary COVID-19 vaccine series had severe breakthrough infections, compared with 0.2% of booster recipients, during Omicron variant predominance.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Study finds a considerable burden of fatigue and "brain fog" in COVID long-haulers.
Only 27% of 108 poor countries register all the insulins classified as essential meds by the WHO.
Of the nation's top 12 chains, 8 received an "F" grade for their antibiotic policies.
Nearly three of four US high school students report one or more adverse experiences contributing to poor mental health and suicidal behaviors amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The vaccine, which targets Omicron subvariants, is approved for kids as young as 5.
One study shows a link between symptomatic COVID-19 and poor quality of life later on.
COVID-19 vaccination may protect pregnant women and their fetuses against virus-related placentitis (inflammation of the placenta) and stillbirth, concludes a review study published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The research will also be presented next week at ID Week in Washington, DC.
A report today in Emerging Infectious Diseases highlights increased detection of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) in Latin America and the Caribbean during the COVID-19 pandemic.
People lied mostly over a desire for normalcy and personal freedom.
The researchers were able to isolate infectious virus from 2 samples, including an air sample.
A new global estimate of people who experienced long-COVID symptoms after having symptomatic COVID infection suggests that 6.2% reported one of three long-term symptom clusters, an international research group reported yesterday in JAMA.
Of 219 patients, 216 (99%) reported sexual or close intimate contact in the 21 days before symptom onset.
Omicron was tied to a lower risk of maternal critical care (0.3% vs 1.8%) and preterm birth (1.8% vs 4.2%).
A US study of almost 17,000 patients finds modest two-dose Pfizer COVID vaccine effectiveness (VE) against hospitalization and emergency department (ED) admission for Omicron BA.1 (the original Omicron variant) and the BA.2 subvariant, but three-dose VE was 79% and 71% for hospitalization, respectively, and 72% and 21% for ED visits.
A simulated client study in Ethiopia found a high rate of non-prescription antibiotic dispensing at community pharmacies, researchers reported today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
COVID activity continued to rise in many European countries last week, up 14% compared to the previous week, in people ages 65 and older, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said today in a regular update.
In the United States, COVID indicators continue to fall, with the BA.5 Omicron variant still dominant, but newer subvariants are slowly making more of a mark.
