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Rates of prevention of recurrent C diff were similar, with fewer side effects.
Japan-based Takeda announces the launch of a phase 1 trial of its Zika vaccine.
The agency reports increased activity overall, 5 pediatric deaths, and a variant H1N1 infection in Iowa.
England has experienced an unprecedented resurgence in scarlet fever infections that began in 2014, but so far the reasons for the escalation aren't clear, researchers from Public Health England reported yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The strain resulted from a mix of high-path H5N8 and low-path H3N6.
Fever, crackling in the lungs, high pulse, and low blood oxygen may be predictive.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV over the past week, according to its daily updates on the disease.
The results of a small phase 1 clinical trial show that an activated charcoal product helped protect the gut microbiome in volunteers treated with moxifloxacin, French researchers report in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Nov 22
Because of its low-moisture properties, flour is an unusual conduit of E coli bacteria.
Researchers detail both intra-hospital and between-facility disease transmission.
An analysis of 40 human H7N9 avian flu clusters from five waves of disease activity in China found a stable pattern in number and size, suggesting that the human-to-human transmission risk hasn't changed since the virus emerged in 2013. A team from China and their collaborators at the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention reported its findings yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program was associated with lower use of antimicrobials deemed high risk and some reduction in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), according to a single-center study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
The new parasite is closely related to Plasmodium falciparum, which causes malaria in humans.
The CDC says everyone who consumed milk from Udder Milk in the past 6 months should receive antibiotics.
The number of reported Candida auris infections in the United States has risen to 157, according to the most recent case count from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Experiments in guinea pigs to explore possible routes of Zika transmission found that infected animals can pass the virus to healthy cagemates, perhaps through tears or saliva, researchers from China reported today in Nature Communications.
Isolates shared a background that took shape in 2006, when MCR-1 was first mobilized.
In South Korea, H5N6 developments in poultry prompted a move to the highest avian flu alert level.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a new case of MERS-CoV over the weekend.
