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A non-inferiority trial in Australia has determined that intravenous (IV) ceftriaxone at home may be an alternative to IV flucloxacillin in the hospital for children who have cellulitis, according to a study yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Patients must be treated as patients, not as biothreats, MSF head says.
The association held even in people without prior antibiotic use.
A 2-year multicenter Veterans Administration (VA) retrospective cohort study published yesterday discovered that 5% of patients having outpatient surgeries received antimicrobial prophylaxis longer than 24 hours after surgery, with rates varying by procedure, facility type, and surgical specialty.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded two cases of MERS-CoV in young women from Khamis Mushait in an update to its epidemiologic week 10 report.
The first patient is a 33-year-old woman who is listed as a secondary case, meaning she likely contracted MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) from another sick person. She did not report recent camel contact, the MOH said.
There are now officially 907 cases of Ebola in the DRC.
MSF calls a revised CEPI policy on vaccine access "toothless and weak."
Saudi Arabia's steady rise in MERS-CoV cases continued today, with one more illness reported that appears to be part of a hospital outbreak in Wadi ad-Dawasir, according to a Ministry of Health (MOH) update to its epidemiologic week 10 report.
The rate of decline of MRSA bloodstream infections in US hospitals has slowed since 2012.
Zika infection in early pregnancy raise the risk of microcephaly 17 times, the study says.
Scott Gottlieb, MD, announced today that he will resign as commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the coming weeks to spend more time with his family.
A University of Toronto study has discovered no connection between adequate empiric antibiotic therapy and cure time for patients with urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by bacteria, suggesting a potential for sparing antibiotics, according to a study yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
With 8 new infections (and 6 more deaths), the outbreak has grown to 897 cases.
Also, the virus sickened four more people in Saudi Arabia over the past few days, three from Riyadh.
A new report from ReAct and the Dag Hammerskjold Foundation calls for antibiotic resistance to be integrated into the sustainable development agenda.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported 47 more measles cases, raising the total since the first to the year to 206 cases in 11 states. For comparison, the CDC reported 372 cases for all of 2018, the most since 2014.
Affected states are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
Three new cases lift the outbreak total to 888, and officials say to expect more.
Pediatric flu deaths have now reached 56, and activity is widespread nationwide.
Prescribing frequency ranges from 19% in Switzerland to 64% in Turkey.
