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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an additional claim for the cobas Zika test, manufactured by Roche Molecular Diagnostics, the company announced today in a news release. The approval allows the test to be used to screen pooled blood and plasma donations for the Zika virus.
According to Roche, the new application will streamline the screening process of multiple individual blood or plasma donations.
The outbreak area covers 37 miles of rough, difficult-to-access terrain.
CARB-X yesterday announced funding for the development of a rapid test to speed up diagnosis and treatment of chlamydia and gonorrhea, including drug-resistant strains.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Twelve more people in five states have been sickened with Salmonella from eggs produced by an Indiana farm, bringing the outbreak total to 35 cases in nine states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
The WHO said, of 21 cases, 17 have links to other cases and 3 are in health workers.
Researchers say the findings bolster the case for antibiotic stewardship.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) yesterday confirmed that six Canadian Escherichia coli infections are tied to the 29-state US outbreak in which contaminated romaine lettuce has been implicated.
The extra testing cost about $42 million and identified only 9 positive donations.
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The United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) today issued draft guidance for the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Experts agree that the next flu pandemic could well be devastating—and how ill-prepared the world is.
There was no sign of active MERS-CoV circulation in recent years.
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.
