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A study today involving 111 patients found that early fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) dramatically improves survival in severe Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs).
Scientists detail a rare mutation that causes resistance to levofloxacin.
In an ongoing multistate Cyclospora outbreak, 96 more patients without a history of international travel who were sick on or after May 1 have been reported to the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), boosting the national total to 347, according to the agency's latest update.
Men who contract Zika virus have lower sperm counts for 1 to 2 months after infection.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a new case of MERS-CoV yesterday, in a patient who had contact with camels, a known risk factor for contracting the virus.
In a study designed to help clinicians and health policy makers decide whether to recommend and offer annual flu vaccination, a new meta-analysis published today found no evidence that prior season immunization blunts the protection of the current seasonal vaccine.
Researchers from Ontario and Hong Kong published their meta-analysis of observational studies today in BMC Medicine.
Ebola survivors have 7 times the disability rate of close contacts, and the virus likely causes muscle damage.
In other developments, a few more cases were reported in the Americas and mosquito trials showed a risk of spread in major Kenyan cities.
A total of 961 cases of Salmonella illness have been linked to exposure to backyard poultry, according to an update today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The outbreaks have occurred in 48 states and resulted in 215 hospitalizations and 1 death.
Dutch investigators have identified the colistin resistance gene MCR-1 in nearly 25% of samples of Dutch retail chicken meat, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
For the study, the investigators bought 214 chicken meat samples from four supermarket chains throughout the Netherlands in 2015. They collected 53 or 54 samples from each chain.
The CDC announced 3 variant flu cases among fairgoers in North Dakota, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Saudi Arabia today announced a MERS-CoV infection in a patient in Jeddah whose exposure to the virus is still under review. The case is the fourth recent one reported from Jeddah.
The latest case involves a 51-year-old male expatriate whose is hospitalized in critical condition. He is not a healthcare worker, according to the Ministry of Health (MOH).
A new study by researchers with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that availability of antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) at US hospitals has improved in recent years, but substantial gaps remain.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
In a report on an imported case from 2015, Thai researchers spelled out some of the clinial and lab challenges in diagnosing MERS-CoV.
With resistance emerging to a limited set of treatment options, new drugs for invasive fungal infections are desperately needed.
A detailed look at variant influenza cases from seven agricultural fairs in Michigan and Ohio in 2016 found that of 18 variant H3N2 (H3N2v) cases in humans, 16 were infected with a reassortant that contains the hemagglutinin gene from the 2010-2011 seasonal H3N2 strain in humans, a strain increasingly seen in US swine herds.
The WHO and its partners need the funding boost to stop measles transmission with a campaign in November to immunize 4.2 million children.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a new case of MERS-CoV today, continuing a small but steady stream of cases in the weeks leading up to the Hajj pilgrimage.
A study today in BMC Infectious Diseases reports that patients with multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR- and XDR-TB) in China's Hunan province had low rates of treatment success.
