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Researchers in Switzerland have identified an increase in New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)–producing Enterobacterales, according to a report published today in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Cloth or surgical facial masks reduced SARS-CoV-2 RNA 77% in exhaled coarse aerosol particles and 48% in exhaled fine aerosol particles, offering "modest" source control, according to a Clinical Infectious Diseases study yesterday. The study also found that the Alpha (B117) COVID-19 variant contained 43-fold more fine-aerosol viral RNA compared with earlier virus strains.
While welcoming the move, African leaders pushed for multiple ways to boost vaccine access, including easing export bans.
Of the cancer patients, 62% reached the highest possible antibody levels.
More than 243,000 child COVID-19 cases were reported from Sep 2 to Sep 9, the second highest weekly total of the pandemic.
A review and meta-analysis of point-prevalence surveys conducted in Asia over the past two decades found concerning levels of resistance to first-line and last-resort antibiotics in foodborne pathogens isolated from aquatic animals, researchers reported late last week in Nature Communications.
Hospitalized COVID-19 patients were more likely to have autoantibodies, or self-attacking antibodies, than those without COVID-19, according to a study today in Nature Communications.
Americans are evenly split on requiring proof of vaccination for everyday activities.
Researchers suggest low staff vaccination rate may have affected the outbreak.
Any gain "will not outweigh the benefits of providing initial protection to the unvaccinated," one expert says.
US counties with more excess deaths not attributed to COVID-19 had less health insurance coverage and primary care as well as more at-home deaths, according to a research letter today in JAMA Network Open.
The researchers looked at 2020 data from the US National Center for Health Statistics for 2,096 counties with 319.1 million residents and divided county characteristics into quartiles.
Across 51 NICUs on a single day, the prevalence of antibiotic use ranged from 0% to 59%.
In the coming months, two thirds of the US workforce will be mandated to get vaccinated.
More than 68,000 US cases and 16,000 deaths may have gone uncounted.
In the Delta era, unvaccinated people have 10 times the risk of severe COVID-19 than vaccinated people do.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Sep 9
A study of US veterans hospitalized with community-acquired sepsis shows an overall decline in time-to-antibiotics, with significant variation across hospitals, researchers reported this week in JAMA Network Open.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed two new variant flu cases in Iowa, according to its weekly Fluview update.
One case involves the influenza A H3N2 variant (H3N2v) and the other the influenza A H1N2 variant (H1N2v). Both infections are in children. Neither was hospitalized, and both have fully recovered, the CDC said.
A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study shows that 65.9% of a sample of US adults who tested positive for COVID-19 reported at least one lingering symptom more than a month later.
UN agencies warn of erosions on schooling in West Asia, as well as on employment and maternal health in Latin America.
Biden's goals are to keep schools open, mandate vaccines for all federal workers, and increase testing.
