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Over 90% of the world's population live in a nation that has created or is working on an action plan.
Commitments included scaling up research investments and building a framework for country accountability on steps to reach the declaration's goals.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV infection in Az Zulfi in the central part of the country near Riyadh.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) this week launched an Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) in Primary Care and hospital guidelines on multidisciplinary prescribing as two key steps in rolling out the Hong Kong Strategy and Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Analysis of blood samples provides clues about how the disease unfolds and which patients are more likely to die.
Scientists can't be sure phage therapy saved a man's life, but it holds much promise in treating dangerous superbugs.
Canadian researchers have identified a ceftriaxone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhea isolate in a Canadian patient, according to a new report in Emerging Infectious Diseases. It's one of only a handful of ceftriaxone-resistant N gonorrhea isolates reported worldwide.
Tests on a traditional healer in Kenya who was a contact of one of the lab-confirmed Uganda Marburg patients has tested negative, and other high-risk contacts in Kenya have completed their 21-day monitoring periods, with no other illnesses detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
The report shows increasing trends in several bacteria, most notably in rates of combined resistance for E coli.
The first-ever global guidelines aim to prevent 3 types of superbugs in healthcare settings.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) today published guidelines on screening for and prevention of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) that include hospital stay, chemotherapy treatment, and link to a CRE carrier as risk factors.
In its latest global flu update, the World Health Organization (WHO) notes that flu increased slightly in the Northern Hemisphere last week and globally influenza A H3N2 is still the dominant strain.
According to the WHO, respiratory illness indicators were at or below seasonal thresholds in Mexico and the United States, and following historical trends in Canada.
The study of people in Salvador, Brazil, shows infection rates exceeding 60% in many populations.
Bulgaria and South Africa report outbreaks, and the USDA approves the first poultry DNA vaccine.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today launched an interactive research tool called Resistome Tracker to track antibiotic-resistance genes.
The report shows a first-time drop in medically important antibiotic use in animals.
Almost two thirds of US hospitals now have full-scale antibiotic stewardship programs and the incidence of several antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) infections are declining in the country, according to a progress report on 2 years of US efforts to combat AMR, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said today.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV infection today.
Eight of 11 states that border high-incidence states saw cases increase.
