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A study of more than 2,900 healthcare workers (HCWs) shows that those who wore a respirator were more than 40% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those wearing a surgical mask.
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) and Accelerate Diagnostics yesterday announced a commercial collaboration agreement to bring rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility tests to more clinicians and patients worldwide.
Also, 4 studies shed light on symptoms, diagnosis, and spread, with 1 paper detailing asymptomatic cases.
Rates of severe pregnancy-related complications and severe maternal illness and death rose significantly.
The process generates a list of antibiotics to which the infection is susceptible.
Following the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) emergency use authorization (EUA) of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine last month for the primary vaccine series, the company announced today that it has applied for an EUA for the vaccine to also be used as a booster in adults ages 18 and older.
A clinician-directed intervention implemented at facilities in the Veterans' Healthcare Administration (VHA) was associated with better management of, and reduced antibiotic prescribing for, acute respiratory infections (ARIs), researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Only 86% of New York City preschoolers have received the recommended 3 doses of polio vaccine.
About 27% of kids hospitalized for COVID-19 or MIS-C had symptoms 2 to 4 months later.
Maine, which has confirmed only four monkeypox cases, today reported a case of the virus in a resident under the age of 18. No further details were released by the Maine Centers for Disease Control. Maine now joins California and Florida as states with pediatric cases.
Also, researchers in Spain detail a possible human-to-dog case.
COVID-19 patients early in the pandemic had 4% higher healthcare use in the 6 months after illness onset than matched controls, most notably for infection-related conditions, hair loss, bronchitis, pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis, and shortness of breath, finds a study today in JAMA Network Open.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The CDC also revised its school guidance, which no longer recommends cohorting or the test-to-stay strategy for exposed contacts.
In kids, lingering symptoms often occurred after mild illness and were more common in unvaccinated youngsters.
Despite concerns, US officials press ahead with intradermal injection strategy amid rising cases.
A survey of tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in Europe found the availability of drug susceptibility testing (DST) for new and repurposed TB drugs in Europe is severely limited, drugs and regimens for drug-resistant TB are limited, and treatment costs for drug-resistant TB are very high, according to a study published this week in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Adults with blindness and deafness were less likely to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a large study of adults published today in an early online edition of JAMA Ophthalmology.
More durable protection would be an advantage, since frequent mRNA vaccine boosting may be hard to sustain long-term.
Japan reported a record daily high today, and South Korea's daily total reached a 4-month high.
Data from a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance network in India shows high rates of bloodstream and urinary tract infections (UTIs) and very high levels of antibiotic resistance, researchers reported in The Lancet Global Health.
