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A New York resident who drank raw milk from a Pennsylvania dairy has contracted the nation's third known case of brucellosis caused by the antibiotic-resistant Brucella RB51 strain, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in a Health Alert Network (HAN) notice. The previous two illnesses occurred in 2017.
Outcomes were similar in the 2 groups, but oral-step-down patients had shorter stays.
Thirteen of 18 health zones in the region have reported cases in the past 3 weeks, and deaths have reached 439.
Dengue immunity, however, doesn't seem to generally protect against Zika infection, the researchers find.
According to a series of tweets made by Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, the agency is trying its best to handle food safety inspections and other critical work during what has become the nation's longest government shutdown.
Experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control that establishing nationwide antibiotic stewardship programs to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections in hospitals would result in an annual net benefit of $25.5 billion.
The number of confirmed cases in the DRC has jumped by 19 in recent days.
A new study by Emory University researchers reports that more than half of the patients visiting primary care clinics in the university's healthcare network with acute respiratory infections (ARIs) received antibiotics, with substantial variation in prescribing rates by site and provider. The findings were published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
Washington state's Clark County, which is part of the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area, has declared a public health emergency related to a measles outbreak, with 22 cases confirmed so far, along with 3 more suspected cases.
A total of 62.4% of patients taking tafenoquine were free of P vivax after 6 months.
Three more pediatric flu deaths were reported, bringing to 19 the number of deaths in children this season.
Japanese researchers describe two H3N2 flu viruses with mutations that may increase antiviral resistance.
Ebola infections have been confirmed in 12 more people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including 6 in Katwa, one of the more recent hot spots, the country's health ministry said today.
Contrafect Corporation announced yesterday that it has received an additional $2.3 million in funding over the next 2 years from CARB-X for the development of a phage lysin therapy to treat drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
Peter Salama says high rates in children might be due to facility types.
Experts found 23.2% of antibiotics were inappropriate, but many other prescriptions fell in gray areas.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday posted a summary of five MERS-CoV cases reported by Saudi Arabia during December, covering new clinical details that weren't included in initial reports.
About one fourth of children younger than age 2 who are seen in US emergency departments (EDs) for bronchiolitis, a common viral lung infection in that age-group, received an antibiotic prescription, despite 2006 recommendations against the treatment in the absence of documented bacterial infection.
Oral antibiotic prescribing by dermatologists fell 37% from 2008 through 2016, but use in some areas rose.
