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A Johns Hopkins study has determined that selecting an indication for antibiotics from an evidence-based list as opposed to free-text indications increases the odds that antibiotic agents will be used appropriately, according to a study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Some patients are getting inferior antibiotics, the authors say.
The first patient got sick after exposure to camels and their milk, and six others contracted the virus in the household setting.
The Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry yesterday and today ruled out some suspected cases based on lab tests and confirmed 2 more in the remote Iboko outbreak location, dropping the outbreak total to 50 cases, including 37 confirmed and 13 probable, with no suspected cases. No new deaths were reported, keeping that total at 25.
Epidemiologists with the Florida Department of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today on a small outbreak of carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a long-term acute care hospital.
Also, the FAO, WHO, and OIE agree to strengthen their collaboration on antimicrobial resistance.
In the children's study, headache, irritability, and hospitalization rates varied by age.
Cases now total 51, and vaccine uptake has been high among more than 900 case contacts identified.
A new index that evaluates 60 global food companies on health, environmental, and social issues has found that more than three-quarters of those companies rank as "high risk" on antibiotic stewardship.
Vaccination is under way in two remote areas as officials get closer to testing as many as five treatments.
Health officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) recorded the country's first MERS-CoV case of 2018 in a camel farmer, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported yesterday.
A 78-year-old man from Ghayathi was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) on May 13 after presenting with symptoms of the virus at an Abu Dhabi hospital. He is in stable condition.
A new surveillance report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) shows wide ranges of antibiotic consumption in Europe, with no significant trends in mean consumption observed.
One-minute permethrin exposure led to a loss of normal movement for all three tick species.
A report from the Kaiser Family Foundation says the US role in outbreak response is key but less prominent in the face of stronger international capacity.
Almost 80% of premature infants get early antibiotic treatment, with little change in recent years.
Tests on two earlier reported suspected Nipah virus cases from India's Karnataka state were negative for the virus, as another, previously unaffected state—Telangana—identified two possible cases and sent samples for testing, according to the latest media reports from India.
South Korean researchers have confirmed the colistin-resistance genes MCR-1 and MCR-3 in Escherichia coli isolates from food animals, according to a study yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Also, new reports cover vaccine challenges and lessons learned in West Africa.
Local officials say the outbreak total has reached 36 cases, 14 confirmed and 22 suspected.
