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Today the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported nine newly recorded polio cases in several countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Angola.
Seven of the new cases are wild poliovirus type 1 cases, recorded in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the virus is still endemic.
Data from a single-center study indicate widespread misdiagnosis of Lyme disease and unnecessary antibiotic treatment, particularly among those with unexplained symptoms lasting longer than 3 months, a team of US researchers reported today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
USAID announces it wlll give the DRC $98 million to help fight the outbreak, which is now at 2,369 cases.
The rate of kindergartners not up to date on their vaccines dropped from 9.8% before the laws to 4.9% afterward.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that it is investigating a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella infections with suspected links to contact with pig-ear dog treats.
A system recently launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor health-related workplace absenteeism during influenza seasons has yielded more evidence that the 2017-18 flu season was unusually severe, the CDC reported today.
With 16 new infections, the outbreak total has grown to 2,354 cases, including 1,586 deaths, with 402 suspected cases.
Vaccine effectiveness was 44% for the H1N1 strain but essentially zero for H3N2.
A study yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the unique emergence of the pandemic multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli clone ST1193.
High activity has returned to the towns and villages where the outbreak began 11 months ago.
The median number of days for hospitals to start using any of 6 new antimicrobials was 398.
With 18 more infections recorded in the last week, the United States has seen 1,095 measles cases in 2019—the most cases in the United States since 1992 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000.
A multidisciplinary, multifaceted intervention aimed at targeting health professionals' and patients' attitudes regarding antibiotic use helped improve outpatient antibiotic prescribing at Portuguese primary care clinics, a team of Portuguese researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
"It is important to break the vicious cycle," a top WHO official says.
Viruses account for 61.4% of cases in young kids, with RSV the most common viral cause and the leading cause of severe pneumonia.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported two more outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2), according to the latest update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). The GPEI today detailed 10 new polio cases in four countries, as well as cVDPV2 in a healthy case contact.
A survey of Japanese dentists indicates that attitudes toward antimicrobial prophylaxis vary widely, with many reporting going against current guidelines, Japanese researchers reported today in a letter in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
A USAID official says 4 major donors have jump-started a new "strategic plan.'
