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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 19
Yesterday, French diagnostics company bioMerieux announced that that the Fleming Fund has selected it as a supplier in a tender process to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 18 low- and middle-income countries.
The multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections tied to contaminated romaine lettuce has grown by 36 illnesses, for a total of 138 cases in 25 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
Analysis reveals that 171 of the isolates are closely related and form a distinct lineage.
Three more Ebola cases have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising the outbreak total to 3,354 cases, according to numbers reflected on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Health officials are still investigating 488 suspected cases. Also, 3 more people died from their infections, lifting the fatality count to 2,220.
By the age of 5, children in these countries receive 25 antibiotic courses on average.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO's) Ebola dashboard, two new cases of the viral disease were recorded today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising the outbreak total to 3,351 cases including 2,217 deaths.
Officials are still investigating 519 suspected cases
Puppies from Petland pet stores are again implicated in a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Campylobacter infections, this time affecting at least 30 people in 13 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
Cases have almost tripled in Nigeria compared with 2018 levels, and Mali is also coping with an outbreak.
One more Ebola case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) outbreak, lifting the overall outbreak total to 3,349 cases, according to numbers reflected on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard. Authorities are still investigating 519 suspected cases.
Also, 1 more patient died from Ebola, putting the fatality total at 2,211.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health voted unanimously against a mandatory 30-day state lockdown that would have banned shipping deer in and out of captive deer facilities, and instead opted for a voluntary lockdown for the state's 330 deer farmers.
With 8 new infections, outbreak totals have now climbed to 3,348 cases and 2,210 deaths.
In other updates, measles cases are on the rise in the Americas, but showed another decline in Europe.
Today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) British authors offered evidence supporting a long-observed phenomenon of the cold and flu season: Having either a rhinovirus or influenza makes a person less likely to contract the other virus.
San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Qpex Biopharma today announced it will receive a second round of funding from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop a portfolio of antibiotics targeting antibiotic-resistant gram-negative bacteria.
Influenza B is still predominant, but H1N1 levels are rising; also, the CDC reports 4 new deaths in kids.
One of the chains involves a patient who has a 2nd Ebola illness, the WHO says.
The grower, in the Salinas, California, growing region, has been linked to 3 separate outbreaks.
According to the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) today, Pakistan tracked three new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) this past week, while several African and Pacific island nations reported a total of 22 vaccine-derived polio cases.
New research by a team of scientists from the United Kingdom suggests that whole-genome sequencing (WGS) should be considered as an alternative to traditional phenotypic testing for national surveillance of antibiotic resistance.
