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A significant decrease in rates of clinically confirmed long-term care facility onset Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) at 132 Veteran's Affairs facilities coincided with implementation of a nationwide prevention initiative, researchers report in a new study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Outpatient visits for flulike illness reached a level not since since the 2009-10 pandemic.
Sick people can pass flu to others just by breathing, according to a new study.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The World Economic Forum's 2018 Global Risks Report, released this week, includes a section on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), noting that while initiatives to address antibiotic overuse and the lack of new antibiotics have been launched, concrete successes "remain elusive."
With the threat of a US federal government shutdown at midnight today because of expiring temporary appropriations and no Congressional passage of a continuing resolution to fund the government, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a staffing contingency plan.
A 20-study meta-analysis finds good evidence of an association between the virus and acute flaccid myelitis.
The AMR Industry Alliance says more commitment and funding are needed.
Reminding people when it's time to receive immunizations—through postcards, texts, and automated phone calls—can increase vaccination numbers, a team of Cochrane researchers reported today, based on an extensive review of 75 studies from 10 countries. Their findings appear in the Cochrane Library.
An antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in an intensive care unit (ICU) in a Spanish hospital was associated with a 22% drop in antimicrobial doses, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
The findings add more weight to calls for more broadly protective flu vaccines.
At least 25 people in 9 states have been sickened in a new Salmonella outbreak.
Most infection specialists currently do not advise the shortest possible duration of antibiotic therapy to prescribers, but nearly half are willing to shorten the duration most of the time, a French-led team of researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Starting antiviral treatment early may reduce the size of flu outbreaks in long-term care facilities, researchers from Taiwan reported today in Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.
One study reaffirms the Zika-microcephaly link; the other spotlights economic factors.
Researchers identify more than 80 genes that contribute to resistance.
Yellow fever vaccine will be used across some of Brazil's most populous regions in the coming months.
Preliminary indications into South Sudan's recent viral hemorrhagic fever outbreak suggest that Rift Valley fever (RVF) may be the cause, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa said in its latest outbreak and health emergencies update.
Few resources address when contact precautions can be stepped back, and hospital approaches vary.
Hospitalizations nearly doubled compared with the previous week, with seniors the hardest-hit group.
