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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 27
MRSA is driven both by introduction of novel strains and by transmission within the household, the study found.
Mortality was lower for 2 therapies—mAb114 and REGN-EB3—that earlier showed promise.
Scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report that a diagnostic test they developed allows simultaneous detection of genotype and phenotype, enabling rapid and accurate antibiotic susceptibility determination in under 4 hours, according to their findings detailed in a letter in Nature Medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday that 27 more people have been sickened in an Escherichia coli outbreak tied to romaine lettuce grown near Salinas, California.
Resistance is more prevalent in bacterial infections tied to devices like catheters and ventilators compared with surgical infections.
With 1 new case confirmed today, the Ebola outbreak has grown to 3,304 infections, including 2,198 fatal ones.
The recent Lassa fever infections, one of them fatal, of two Dutch citizens working in Sierra Leone, along with related high-risk exposures in three United Kingdom citizens, are part of a healthcare Lassa cluster, according to new details about the event in the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office's weekly outbreaks and emergencies update.
An analysis of flu viruses during Japan's 2019 flu season suggests that 2009 H1N1 and H3N2 viruses can rapidly acquire the I38T mutation in the polymerase acidic (PA) protein, which has been linked to reduce susceptibility to baloxavir marboxil, a new antiviral. A team based Japan reported their findings yesterday in Nature Microbiology.
In other developments, a small but steady stream of cases continue in the outbreak areas.
Ceftriaxone resistance in Salmonella isolated from people rose from 2.8% in 2015 to 3.4% in 2017.
A comprehensive educational antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) implemented in 214 Spanish primary care clinics was tied to improved use of antibiotics and a sustained reduction of infections caused by extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli, according to a new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli is connected to romaine lettuce grown in the Salinas, California growing region and is advising people not to eat romaine from that area.
"At this stage of the outbreak, one case matters."
The percentage of clinic visits for flulike illness rose above the national baseline, and 1 more child has died from flu.
An analysis of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in Tennessee in 2016 shows that a small number of prescribers were responsible for a "dramatically disproportionate" number of prescriptions, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today that a wild white-tailed buck harvested during the state's recent archery season in Dunn County near Menomonie in the western part of state has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
News of the CWD detection comes on the eve of the opening of Wisconsin's 9-day gun deer season.
An attack on civilians leaves 8 dead, and WHO leaders voice their concern.
The CDC confirmed 356 cases in 2018 and 2019, but illnesses continue to be noted.
