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People with COVID-19 infections who also used the inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) drug infliximab had significantly fewer detectable antibodies than those who used vedolizumab, which treats IBD without the immune suppression, according to a study yesterday in Gut.
Audit and feedback with peer comparison was associated with small reductions in prolonged antibiotic treatment in a study involving physicians and long-term care (LTC) facility residents in Ontario, Canadian researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Infection rate dropped 5% for every 1 ng/mL increase in Black patients with a vitamin D level of at least 30 ng/mL.
"The inequitable distribution of vaccines is not just a moral outrage. It's also economically and epidemiologically self-defeating."
"We can look at the surge that happened in Europe, and we do not want that to happen."
Compared with the 2014 to 2019 flu seasons, COVID-19's effect in March and April 2020 resulted in a dramatically higher rate of deaths, mechanical ventilation procedures, and hospitalizations at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston, according to a study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine late last week.
A coalition of groups funding antibiotic research and development today released new guidance for developers of antibacterial products to integrate stewardship and access into their plans.
Hospitals were under serious strain during the 2017-18 flu season, yet no pandemic planning resulted.
For middle schools and high schools in areas with high community spread, 6 feet is still recommended.
About 56% of antibiotic use was unsupported, with the rate at 79% for pneumonia.
More than a dozen countries restarted immunizations with the vaccine, but others did not.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A coalition of more than 50 organizations is calling on Congress to boost US investments in efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and develop new antibiotics.
Animal health officials in Wisconsin announced yesterday that they have completed depopulation of a white-tail deer herd at a Burnett County breeding farm where chronic wasting disease (CWD) was found in a buck in October 2020.
For every 3 people who would have died from the previous dominant strains of SARS-CoV-2, 5 will die if they are infected with the B117 variant of concern (VOC), according to a UK study yesterday in Eurosurveillance.
The estimated protection against reinfection was about 80%, but for seniors it was only 47%.
Both the EMA and the UK's drug regulatory agency weigh in and say the data vouch for effectiveness and safety.
"This is a time for optimism, but not a time for relaxation," Biden says.
People commonly experience fatigue, cognitive conditions, or shortness of breath, says a new study.
An audit of an electronic medical record–integrated antimicrobial stewardship intervention in an Australian intensive care unit (ICU) demonstrated long-term benefits and sustainability, Australian researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
COVID-19 vaccination coverage in less socioeconomically vulnerable US counties was 1.9 percentage points higher than that in the most susceptible counties in the first 2.5 months of vaccine rollout, a study yesterday in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) finds.
