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Iowa State University will lead a new research institute to address antimicrobial resistance, with partners including the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), two other universities, and the Mayo Clinic, Iowa State said in a news release yesterday.
Norovirus and Salmonella cause the most outbreaks and illnesses in food outbreaks in the United States, but Listeria, Salmonella, and Shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli (STEC) lead to the most serious illnesses and deaths, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) scientists reporting in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
As a commentary sounds the alarm, Lyme-carrying ticks spread into a new area in Tennessee.
In an update yesterday that came a day after the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC's) Ebola outbreak was declared over, the World Health Organization (WHO) said it now considers the risk to the region and the rest of the world as low.
In a paper today in Eurosurveillance, Swiss researchers report that prior exposure to carbapenems was the only risk factor for colonization or infection in patients with colistin-resistant Escherichia coli or Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Among 440 patients with difficult-to-treat multidrug-resistant infections, 43% died.
The Southern Hemisphere's flu season, which typically lasts through October, shows mixed patterns, with activity that may have peaked in southern Africa, is increasing in South America, and is still below seasonal thresholds in Australia and New Zealand, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in its latest global flu update.
Very low levels of antibiotics in the gut of leeches used in medicine are enough to promote antibiotic-resistant bacteria—and exposure to the leeches led to resistant infections in plastic surgery patients—an international group of researchers reported yesterday in mBio.
Zika RNA was present in semen for a median of 40 days and in vaginal fluid for a median of 14 days.
Adding even small amounts of the antibiotic cefotaxime creates selection pressure.
The declaration comes just 11 weeks after health officials sounded the alarm about the outbreak in early May.
Prenatal dengue infection may increase the risk of any neurologic congenital anomaly in an infant by roughly 50%, according to new research published yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
The Trump administration is working behind the scenes to weaken global recommendations on antibiotic use in food-producing animals, according to a story yesterday in Bloomberg.
The Liberian case from 2015 highlights a lingering threat that the DRC will face after its outbreak is declared over.
A multipronged project to improve intraoperative antibiotic redosing led to dramatic and sustained improvements in antibiotic redosing rates at an Iowa hospital, according to a new study in the American Journal of Infection Control.
In its latest epidemiologic update, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reported late last week that 2,472 cases of measles had been confirmed in 11 countries in the Americas in 2018. PAHO said Venezuela and Brazil recorded the most activity, with more than 2,200 confirmed cases between them.
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In the latest developments involving two separate Cyclospora outbreaks, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 102 more cases linked to McDonald’s salads and 10 more cases linked to Del Monte fresh vegetable trays. So far, there's no evidence to suggest the two outbreaks are related, the CDC said.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 19
Swiss researchers have identified a large outbreak of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) clone ST796 across multiple hospitals in Switzerland, according to a report today in Eurosurveillance.
