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Transplant patients who receive a heart from a COVID-19–infected donor may be at greater risk for death, with the risk doubled at 1 year.
It appears to be the first US case of an infection showing resistance to all available beta-lactam antibiotics.
The $3.9 million in funding will be used to conduct preclinical testing on a novel oxazolidinone inhibitor with the aim of helping cystic fibrosis patients.
Even those who did 10 to 150 minutes of aerobic (cardio) exercise per week had a 21% lower risk, with higher levels linked to a 41% to 50% reduction.
The percentages of misclassified vaccination status using linked IIS and claims data were lower than those using data from the CDC, state health departments, and a capture-recapture analysis.
COVID-19 patients had a longer hospital stay and a 69% higher mortality rate than ICU patients with influenza.
A new algorithm demonstrated 87% sensitivity in detecting allergic-type reactions in patients receiving preventive antibiotics.
The UK has reported an unusual increase in myocarditis infections and 2 deaths in babies who had enterovirus infections.
Sampling reveals considerably more mpox DNA than expected based on area cases and hospitalizations.
The asymptomatic cases are similar to those reported in workers who responded to outbreaks last year in Spain and the United States.
Just over half of cases occurred among people younger than 20 years, and hospitalization rates were high in American Samoa, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
A condor chick's mother died from H5N1, and after the father continued incubating the egg, rescue workers retrieved it before hatching.
A lack of exposure to respiratory syncytial virus in the first 2 years of COVID-19 may have led to the global resurgence of the virus in 2022 and 2023.
The economic burden of healthcare worker infections ranged from $2 million in Eswatini to $163 million in South Africa.
The report urges countries to push harder for innovative financing mechanisms and other incentives.
The severe case of mpox involved pulmonary illness.
A total of 4.9% said their symptoms were resolving quickly, and 4.3% said they had multiple symptoms that varied little over time.
Spring and summer gatherings and vaccination gaps are among the factors that could fuel another surge.
A lower proportion of infants with COVID-19 had co-occurring UTIs, bacteremia without meningitis, and bacterial meningitis.
An analysis of nearly 3 years of patient data finds no evidence of major changes in the level of inappropriate or repeat antibiotic prescribing in primary care.
