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The patch produced a strong immune response and was well tolerated in 50 volunteers.
The authors of the study say they're concerned the gene may already be widely disseminated.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) today sent a letter to members of congressional appropriations committees urging them to reject President Trump's proposed cuts to antimicrobial resistance (AMR) initiatives.
One more illness cluster has been reported among 21 recent H7N9 avian flu infections reported in China, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in an update today. Its report covers 9 lab-confirmed cases reported to the WHO by China on Jun 2 as well as 12 cases reported on Jun 9.
In the wake of new laws and tighter federal oversight, the FDA has done more than 400 inspections, sent 150 warning letters, and overseen 125 recalls.
A review and meta-analysis of studies on bacterial transmission and antibiotic resistance during the annual pilgrimage to Mecca has found rising rates of resistance among certain gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria, researchers report in Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.
Current viruses fall into 2 geographically separate clades.
Two years of conflict have cut 14.5 million people off from access to clean water and sanitation.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) updated its MERS-CoV statistics for the first time in more than a week, noting two new cases not related to current hospital outbreaks in Riyadh.
Researchers with the University of Texas at Austin report that the incidence of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasing among cancer patients, according to a new study in BMC Infectious Diseases.
The 10 cases, 2 of which were fatal, are an increase from 5 reported last week.
The virus may have been introduced multiple times, and environmental spread seems to have played a bigger role than did farming.
Also, a new study estimates that safe burials may have saved 1,400 to 10,400 lives in West Africa's outbreak.
A study involving rhesus macaques suggests that pre-existing dengue virus immunity does not result in more severe Zika disease, the second study this week to report this type of finding.
The company that owns fast-food chains Burger King and Tim Hortons has vowed to stop purchasing chicken raised with antibiotics that are also used in human medicine, according to Reuters.
Restaurant Brands International Inc said its brands, which also include Popeye's Louisiana Chicken, will switch to chicken raised without medically important antibiotics by the end of 2018.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Also, a new US report outlines the usefulness of testing placental and fetal tissue.
Researchers have found no elevated risk of autism in babies born to woman in Norway infected with influenza during pregnancy, a study yesterday in mSphere reported.
Even in the absence of scientific pro, the highest court of the European Union (EU) said yesterday that courts can decide whether a vaccination led to someone developing an illness without definitive scientific proof, the New York Times reported.
A new rapid screening method streamlines the process of identifying "synergistic" drug combinations.
