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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A population-based surveillance study estimates that there were nearly 23,000 cases of candidemia in the United States in 2017, researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and several state health departments reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
In addition, Vice President Pence appoints AIDS expert Deborah Birx, MD, to coordinate the federal response.
The drugs were linked to a more than 70% increase in the odds of intestinal colonization with resistant bacteria.
Outside of China, hot spots include South Korea, Italy, and Iran.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today. This raises the number of MERS cases recorded this month to 12.
For the first time, new cases outside of China exceed new cases reported within China.
Pence, who will lead a response task force, says he will reach out to governors.
A study today in the Journal of Infectious Diseases found that egg-based adjuvanted and high-dose (HD) flu vaccines had slightly higher relative vaccine effectiveness (RVE) than egg-based quadrivalent (four-strain) vaccines in nearly 13 million Medicare beneficiaries 65 and older during the 2018-19 flu season.
The International Society for Infectious Diseases' (ISID's) Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) today announced that it is teaming up with Public Health England to boost global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance efforts.
"Not a question of if, but when, and of how many ... will have severe illnesses."
Even COVID-19 pneumonia patients without symptoms have abnormal lung findings on CT, the study found.
In Europe, Austria, Croatia, and Switzerland reported their first cases, with links to Italy, as Middle East countries reported more cases, fueled by Iran's outbreak.
CARB-X announced today that it will award Peptilogics of Pittsburgh up to $2.56 million in funding to develop a new class of peptide antibiotics with broad activity against drug-resistant bacteria.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today. This raises the number of MERS cases recorded this month to 11.
Also, cases continue to surge in South Korea and Italy, and the US reports more positive tests in evacuees from the Diamond Princess cruise ship.
The JAMA study reveals a 49% death rate in critically ill patients; for a much smaller study it was 62%.
A new study by researchers from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health suggests that outpatient prescribing of penicillins is associated with rates of mortality with sepsis in older US adults.
After additions of what might be retrospective cases, the World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard shows a case count of 3,444 today, which represents 11 more cases than the total reported at the end of last week. The death toll now stands at 2,264 in an outbreak that has lasted 18 months in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Korea confirms 379 new cases and 602 overall, and infections in Italy spike to 132.
In other developments, Italy's outbreak expanded and a California city blocked a plan to move evacuees from Travis Air Force Base.
