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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.
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.
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.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
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.
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.
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.
The 8-month probe chronicled several failures that still fuel massive surges, with experts recommending a host of bold overhauls.
A trial of the Pfizer vaccine in 2,260 young teens found only 1 serious side effect, a fever higher than 104°F.
The researchers estimate a 40% increase in the annual incidence of resistant Salmonella.
Half of the patients had altered brain function or structure, and almost 1 in 5 were in a coma.
Twice as many mothers with babies 6 months or younger reported postpartum depression during the first UK COVID-19–related lockdown, according to a Frontiers in Psychology study yesterday.
Watching a brief video about antibiotic treatment prior to a family practitioner visit reduced patients' expectations about receiving antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) but had no influence on physician prescribing, according to a randomized controlled trial published this week in the Annals of Family Medicine.
As daily cases stay above 300,000, scores of bodies turn up in some of India's rivers.
Tomorrow CDC advisers will vote on whether to recommend the shot for this age-group.
