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Some other Asian nations are facing their biggest surges of the pandemic, and 7 African nations report notable rises.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding up to $4.1 million to Summit Therapeutics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to develop a first-in-class antibiotic to treat multidrug-resistant bacterial infections.
Fewer high-risk outpatients with mild or moderate COVID-19 needed hospitalization or died within 28 days when given bamlanivimab soon after infection compared with their matched peers, finds an observational study yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
For the first time since the pandemic started, all states are reporting declining cases.
Convalescent plasma did not improve survival or other important outcomes.
"While the situation in India is tragic, it is not unique." Surging cases are taxing healthcare systems.
An investigation into a Listeria moncytogenes outbreak linked to a New Jersey company's queso fresco cheese has ended, with 14 cases reported in four states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said May 14 in a final update.
Almost two thirds of homeless patients hospitalized for COVID-19 were of non-White descent and more than 80% had at least one comorbidity, according to a descriptive study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases yesterday.
In the UK, quickly rising B1617.2 cases in some areas have triggered surge testing and other actions.
The studies assess whether tube placement is needed for recurrent ear infections and if stewardship practices can cut back on delayed antibiotic prescriptions.
Some say they need to confer with health officials to weigh local transmission status and risks.
Scientists also detected binding and neutralizing antibodies in infant cord blood and in breast milk, which were somewhat reduced for variants.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A rapid, cartridge-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) platform developed by scientists at Johns Hopkins University for detecting gonorrhea infections and providing antibiotic susceptibility results showed promising results in a study published this week in Science Translational Medicine.
A crowdsourcing appeal for creative solutions for safely reopening the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill amid the COVID-19 pandemic in fall 2020 netted 82 submissions from 110 students, faculty, and staff, according to a qualitative study today in JAMA Network Open.
Vaccinating with both Pfizer and AstraZeneca is linked with more systemic symptoms in older adults.
"If you are fully vaccinated, you can start doing the things that you had stopped doing because of the pandemic."
The world's second most populous country has only 2.8% of its population fully vaccinated.
The inaugural cohort of Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Activity Rehabilitation Program (CARP) for post–COVID-19 syndrome (PCS) were mostly women, younger, had few pre-existing comorbidities, and experienced milder forms of COVID-19, but only a third were able to return to full-time work.
An analysis of administrative claims data in Japan found that newer, third-generation fluoroquinolones were not associated with an increased risk of Achilles tendon rupture, Japanese researchers reported this week in the Annals of Family Medicine.
