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Daily bathing with chlorhexidine gluconate and use of an antiseptic nasal swab helped cut infection-related hospitalization and reduced prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria.
The study found that opioid exposure was associated with a nearly four-fold risk of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci colonization.
Hospital workflow delays resulted in slower stroke diagnosis and treatment during waves 1 and 2 and the lull, likely due to hospital SARS-CoV-2 infection-prevention mandates.
The novel oral antibiotic could provide a new option for treating drug-resistant gram-negative infections.
The older clade, known to circulate in Cambodia's poultry, was also identified in cases the country reported earlier this year.
In temperate South America and the Caribbean, activity was low.
Florida's dengue cases have been concentrated in Miami-Dade County (47 cases) and Broward County (3), with single cases reported in Palm Beach, Hardee, and Polk counties.
The study provides proof of concept of a new tool for curbing outbreaks that avoids thorny issues with vaccination.
Experts say it could be better defined and measured through well-designed longitudinal studies that take children's unique presentations into account.
Previously vaccinated children in a county with the greatest COVID-19 severity had a lower predicted probability of receiving a flu vaccine than those in a county with the lowest severity.
Seventy percent of those who did not use telehealth said they did so based on personal preference.
The latest Gates Foundation funds support mRNA vaccine production in Africa and other lower-income regions.
It's not clear if the virus is an older clade that infected two people earlier this year or the more recent clade circulating globally.
While antibiotic use has declined over the pandemic, nearly two-thirds of non-critically ill, hospitalized COVID-19 patients received antibiotics in 2022, most of them on admission.
The authors found no statistically significant difference in risk of VTE among cases and controls in the 6 months following a COVID-19 diagnosis.
Researchers also examined timing of maternal vaccination and the possibility of a blunting effect after infants got their pertussis shots.
Test positivity last week was 10.9%, down 1.2% from the previous week, and hospitalizations were down 6%.
Relative to controls, COVID-19 patients had significantly higher risks of conditions such as alopecia areata, alopecia totalis, Crohn disease, and sarcoidosis.
The findings were based on patients seen in King County, Washington.
The intervention at a large NYC hospital focused on reducing unnecessary urine cultures.
