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About a quarter of the 200 colonized patients had clinical illness, including 27 with bloodstream infections.
The review didn't find any new evidence to drive policy changes, but said more research and new antivirals are needed.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV today in a man from Medina.
The 67-year-old expatriate is in stable condition after presenting with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The man had indirect contact with camels. Indirect contact with camels, including drinking camel milk, is a known risk factor for the disease.
Overall, cases have declined some, but some locations are still reporting 5,000 suspected cases each day.
The patients, hospitalized at a speciality center, had a variety of complications and some unusual features.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV over the weekend.
The 89-year-old Saudi man from Baljurashi in the southwestern part of the country is in stable condition after being diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The source of his infection is listed as "primary," meaning it's unlikely he contracted the disease from another person.
Also, the species might be resistant to cold temperatures.
The way bacteria adapted to antibiotics in the past may change their future evolutionary path.
In South Africa, H5N8 has been detected at 2 ostrich farms in the southwest.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Aug 10
A team of researchers in Sweden have developed a test that can determine antibiotic susceptibility in less than 30 minutes, according to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS today in healthcare workers from Dumah Al Jandal, the site of a growing hospital-based outbreak.
Overall flu vaccine effectiveness was 48%, but a change in the 2009 H1N1 vaccine strain didn't fix the problem with the inhaled vaccine's effectiveness in children.
Data on infants born to women suspected of having a Zika virus infection in Texas show higher-than-average rates of birth defects and suboptimal levels of testing, according to a report today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).
The goal is to spur global discovery of new antibiotics to battle gram-negative bacteria.
New early-stage research out of the United Kingdom has identified a potential antibiotic candidate for treatment of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
So far nine cases have been reported in the cluster, though illness reports continue from other parts of Saudi Arabia.
Researchers also found changes in bacterial sources, but they didn't see any changes in risk factors.
The World Health Organization (WHO) released their weekly global flu update, noting that activity remained high in the temperate zone of the Southern Hemisphere and in some countries in Southeast Asia. Influenza A (H3N2) is still the predominate strain worldwide.
A review of 10 linked studies yesterday in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene indicates that introduction of rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Africa and Afghanistan curbed use of anti-malaria drugs but was also linked to increased antibiotic prescribing.
The proposal combines market entry rewards, population-based contracts with insurers.
