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Belgian researchers report that almost a third of prescriptions for fluoroquinolones written for hospitalized children were deemed inappropriate, according to a study today in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Japan's health ministry has given fast-track approval to a new flu antiviral with a different mechanism of action than neuraminidase inhibitors that offers a one-dose treatment option, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
One of the changes involves H3N2, a move that will likely not solve egg-adaptation problems, an expert says.
Days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said kratom, a plant used as an opioid substitute, was behind a multistate outbreak of Salmonella illness, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Botany Bay, Enhance Your Life, and Divinity by Divinity Products Distribution of Grain Valley, Mo., agreed to stop selling all products containing kratom, and voluntarily destroyed a high vo
A systematic review of treatments for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology concludes that the most cost-effective treatment remains unclear.
After careful deliberation, experts approved the nasal-spray vaccine 12-2.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS cases yesterday, and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a small healthcare-associated outbreak occurred in Hafar Al-Batin in January.
A study today in Science Translational Medicine describes a new approach to determining the modes of action underlying antimicrobial compounds that could help speed the process of discovering novel antibiotics.
Scientists have identified the genetic basis for an XDR typhoid outbreak in Pakistan.
As researchers work on solving the complex puzzle of all the factors that influence flu vaccine effectiveness (VE), researchers today report that low VE of the H3N2 component during the 2012-13 flu season may have been due to poor immune response rather than adaptations in egg-grown vaccine viruses, as previously thought.
CARB-X, a public-private collaboration that supports companies in early-stage antibiotic discovery and development, recently announced its first funding award for 2018 and provided details about two funding rounds for the current year.
The proposed law would direct $200 million a year for 5 years to research.
Brazil has confirmed almost 1,000 human cases since July 2016, and cases in animals have doubled.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed one new case of MERS-CoV on Feb 17. The MOH has issued only sporadic updates this month, and this is the second update in 3 weeks.
A 74-year-old Saudi woman from Rafha was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). She is in stable condition. The probable source of her infection is indirect contact with camels, a likely risk factor for the virus.
The rate of ILI clinic visits drops slightly, but 22 new deaths in kids show the season is not relenting.
IDSA/SHEA guidelines recommend fecal microbiota transplantation for patients with multiple recurrences.
An investigation into an outbreak involving Salmonella Heidelberg infections linked to dairy cows is over, according to an announcement today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In patients hospitalized with serious infections from carbapenem-resistant gram-negative bacteria, a combination of colistin and meropenem wasn't associated with fewer clinical failures compared with colistin alone, researchers reported today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
