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Italian researchers report that an antimicrobial stewardship program based on a clinical pathway (CP) was associated with both an improved choice of antibiotic and duration of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis (PAP) in pediatric surgical patients. The findings appeared yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak grew by five cases today, with illnesses reported in four different location, according to the health ministry's daily update.
The review recommends categorizing patients into low-, medium-, and high-risk.
About 400 staffers have returned from furlough, 150 of them for food inspections.
The new cases and 6 new deaths bring the outbreak total to 658 and the fatality count to 402, with 200 cases still being investigated.
Today Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 3 notification.
A study of pig farms in nine European countries suggests antimicrobial use during the fattening phase is associated with antimicrobial resistance, researchers from the European Union Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission (EFFORT) project reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Also, a US health worker who was possibly exposed was released from monitoring.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today recorded 3 new cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), bringing the total for 2018 to 196 confirmed cases. The confirmed cases are among the 357 reports that CDC received of patients under investigation.
2018 has seen the most AFM cases of any year since the CDC began tracking the mysterious illness in 2014.
Researchers with Public Health England (PHE) report that a survey of England's National Health Service (NHS) hospitals found that the vast majority have made progress in establishing antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs), but many lack senior leadership and dedicated funding, and there was no significant correlation between stewardship scores and antimicrobial usage.
The CDC estimates 2.9 million to 3.5 million have needed to see a doctor, and up to 83,500 have been hospitalized for flu.
Late-career docs were 50% more likely to prescribe long courses than younger docs.
Mozambique declared an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) after two cases were detected in the Zambezi province. Details of the outbreak are published today in the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Enhanced surveillance has identified five US cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid infections associated with travel to Pakistan, according to a report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Intensive 5-day training aims to engage students in scientific discovery.
In research news, tests in animals show promise for a new monoclonal antibody therapy.
A patient in a Laramie County, Wyo., hospital has been confirmed to have an infection caused by an Enterobacteriaceae containing the MCR-1 resistance gene, which confers resistance to the critical antibiotic colistin, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said yesterday in a news release.
Because of the federal government shutdown, now in its third week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended all routine inspections of domestic food-processing facilities, a move that alarms some food safety advocates.
US kids receive more than 2 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions a year in ERs.
