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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed 28 new cases of Escherichia coli infections and four newly affected states in an outbreak tied to eating romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Ariz., growing region that has caused higher rates of severe disease than is typically seen with E coli.
A survey of final-year medical students in Europe has found that most feel they still need more education on antibiotic use, a team of European researchers report today in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
In the past 5 weeks, 21 cases of viral hemorrhagic fever have been reported in the area, 17 of them fatal.
In addition to circulating in blood, Plasmodium vivax is now known to accumulate in bone marrow.
The cases indicate a need for action to preserve the last remaining effective treatment.
The United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) today issued draft guidance for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
There was no sign of active MERS-CoV circulation in recent years.
Experts agree that the next flu pandemic could well be devastating—and how ill-prepared the world is.
In response to cholera outbreaks in several African countries over the past several months, the World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the largest cholera vaccination drive in history, with a goal of reaching 2 million people.
CARB-X announced today that it's awarding more than $2 million to Melinta Therapeutics to help the company advance a new class of antibiotics into clinical development.
Rain, war, and other factors have helped create the largest cholera outbreak in history, researchers say.
In its weekly update on yellow fever activity, Brazil yesterday reported 39 more lab-confirmed cases, along with 30 more deaths.
Since Jul 1, 2017, the country has reported 1,257 cases and 394 deaths.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The burden of antibiotic resistance in European intensive care units (ICUs) remains high, according to a surveillance report today from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The report calls on PHAC to speed up development of a plan to address antimicrobial resistance.
An online survey of 180 nurses found that nursing professionals are well positioned to be integrated into antibiotic stewardship programs, but clinical practice and hospital culture influence perceptions of their role—and barriers include nurses not included in rounds, interdisciplinary power differentials, and nursing input not actively sought—according to a study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Contr
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recorded a new case of MERS-CoV yesterday in Sakakah, a city in the northwestern corner of the country.
The first outbreak-related death occurred in California, and cases have now reached 121.
The study raises ethical issues for a possible life-saving drug.
Scientists in China are reporting the emergence of a new strain of hypervirulent, carbapenem-resistant of Klebsiella pneumoniae.
A new meta-analysis of 42 flu studies found that vaccination over two consecutive seasons didn't reduce flu vaccine effectiveness (VE) compared with people vaccinated during the current season, but the researchers included the caveat that the overall quality of evidence was low, due to inconsistency and imprecision among the studies.
