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The hospital says it's unclear whether the K pneumoniae infections caused or contributed to the 7 patient deaths.
The recipients are Vedanta Biosciences, whose lead candidate is a microbiome-directed C difficile therapy, and diagnostics company Pattern Bioscience for rapid bacterial susceptibility tests.
The COVID-19 emergency committee will meet on May 4 to assess if the situation still warrants a public health emergency of international concern.
Experts in antimicrobial resistance testified on the need for better surveillance data, new antibiotics and diagnostics, and more infectious disease professionals.
Vaccine effectiveness against mechanical ventilation and in-hospital death was 62% among all adults and 69% among those aged 65 years and older.
Despite rising proportions of two new subvariants, US COVID markers continue to fall.
The drug marks the first fecal microbiota therapy that can be taken orally.
Both infants were sick in the summer of 2022, and their households had received raw milk from the same cow-sharing arrangement.
The Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar both reported more cases involving circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses.
The risk of symptomatic COVID-19 was 14.7% in the BCG group and 12.3% in the placebo group during the first 6 months of the trial.
The head of the WHO said 1 in 10 people who contract COVID experience long COVID, and he urged countries to plan for longer-term care.
A multifaceted intervention did not reduce overall antibiotic dispensing or infections, but it may have helped some subgroups.
Brains may have compensated for their deficits by reorganizing networks to maintain performance.
The PASTEUR was introduced in 2020 and 2021 but never received a vote despite bipartisan support.
The initiative in Texas was associated with reduced staff burnout during COVID-19 without increased healthcare-associated infections.
Nine mpox patients had new skin or mucosal lesions after completing the 14-day Tpoxx treatment course.
Activity is rising in the Western Pacific due to local transmission in Japan, South Korea, and China.
The country is juggling several health challenges, which is complicated by a humanitarian emergency and insecurity in the northeast.
Data show that regular exercise was linked to COVID-19 infection early in the pandemic but also associated with a significantly lower risk of developing severe symptoms.
Vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant, the only strain identified through whole-genome sequencing, was 82.0%.
