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The pandemic likely disrupted the biannual pattern of infection.
The BC Wildlife Federation reports 2 cases of the fatal neurodegenerative prion disease in a male mule deer and a female white-tailed deer in the southeastern part of the province.
Treatment with the narrow-spectrum investigational antibiotic ridinilazole resulted in a 53% relative reduction of recurrent C difficile infection compared with vancomycin.
Researchers say antibiotic trials in children diagnosed as having community-acquired pneumonia likely include many children without radiographic pneumonia.
The new detection comes just a week after the CDC warned health providers about a rise in imported measles cases.
Health officials say the STI epidemic is at a tipping point, with more federal support needed for testing and treatment.
Hospitalization rates were highest among children 0 to 2 months old.
Beta was followed by Gamma, Alpha, Delta, and Omicron, with variant-specific case-fatality rates ranging from 1% to 4%.
Overall protection among adults against symptomatic COVID-19 was 54%.
Four colonization cases have been reported in patients with links to the same long-term acute-care hospital.
At 3 months, Hispanic participants were more likely than non-Hispanic participants to report fair or poor health.
The results highlight the importance of supporting older adults so that their decision whether to have surgery isn't based on financial factors, the authors say.
Though H10 viruses have infected humans before, the woman's illness marks the first known case involving H10N5.
The trial found that the anti-staphylococcal lycin exebacase plus standard-of-care antibiotics failed to improve clinical response compared with antibiotics alone.
The pace of outbreaks in poultry has slowed dramatically since December.
Whether naturally acquired or introduced, segmented filamentous bacteria protected mice against flu, RSV, and SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Only 5% of participants across all studies said they had concealed a COVID-19 infection.
CDC guidance was based on droplet dogma rather than the current view that SARS-CoV-2 spreads primarily through aerosols, the authors said.
The virus was confirmed in gentoo penguins, with a suspected detection in king penguins from another location in the region.
People with rheumatologic autoimmune diseases and HIV had an only slightly elevated mortality risk compared to immunocompetent patients.
