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The guidelines continue to focus on hand hygiene and proper cleaning of hospital equipment but elevate stewardship to an essential practice.
Antibiotics significantly reduced bacterial diversity and altered the gut microbiome of infants in low- and middle-income countries.
The DNR aims to focus restrictions on areas at greatest risk for the spread of chronic wasting disease.
In Australia, clinic visits for flu increased, and in South America, flu declined in Chile but rose in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Following Brazil's first detection of high-path H5N1 avian flu in wild birds in early May, the country confirms its first outbreak involving poultry.
An adult in Montezuma County, Colorado, has been infected with plague bacteria, likely on private property.
More than 1 million COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Hong Kong when Omicron swept through a largely immune-naïve population.
The CDC said malaria infection is a medical emergency that requires rapid testing and treatment.
The designation means that the NgG vaccine, which is in a phase 2 trial, will receive expedited review by FDA officials.
Priorities include improving access to new and existing antibiotics, diagnostics, and antibiotic alternatives.
Long COVID was reported in 64% of patients at 1 year, but it wasn't tied to a history of tropical diseases, including dengue, malaria, and Zika.
An approach normally used in older patients was associated with a sharp reduction in MRSA infections in critically ill infants and young kids.
Preliminary tests show the virus in cats is different from the one infecting gulls in the country.
The findings suggest COVID-19 does long-term damage to the male reproductive tract.
No transmission was detected when both the infected person and the household contact were vaccinated against COVID-19.
The reports shed little new light on the origins of the pandemic.
The case in Texas follows two similar cases in Florida.
Twenty-six percent of patients with non-mild COVID-19 cases report frequent pain.
Amid the global decline, Israel reported its first mpox case of 2023.
US Cyclospora infections typically rise in the summer, but the increase began in April this year.
