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A new analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial that found that mass distribution of the antibiotic azithromycin to children under 5 years old was associated with reduced childhood mortality in three African countries suggests mortality reduction may be linked to effects on pneumonia, diarrhea, or HIV/AIDS mortality.
Pregnant women hospitalized with COVID-19 had similar clinical illness and outcomes as nonpregnant women of reproductive age and did not pass the virus to their newborns, according to a retrospective study published yesterday in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
WHO officials are concerned about increasing trends in Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and some Asian countries.
Meat and cheese plants across the country close in light of COVID-19 infections in employees.
Twenty-seven (56%) of 48 nursing home residents had no symptoms when tested, but 24 of the 27 later did.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week shared new details about its investigation into H7N3 avian flu outbreaks at turkey farms in North Carolina and South Carolina, one of them involving a highly pathogenic version of the virus.
Priority antibiotics with a high potential for developing resistance are commonly prescribed to older adults in Australia, particularly those with chronic respiratory conditions, but fewer than one fifth of those prescriptions are accompanied by microbiologic tests, researchers reported in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Brisk activity continues in US hot spots, and in Brazil, hospitals in several major cities are nearing collapse after surges of patients.
In the past, such as with 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines, they weren't equitably available.
The arm of a trial involving high-dose chloroquine had to be stopped early.
Trump muses about injecting disinfectants but later says he was using sarcasm.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 23
Today researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, noted a link between frozen produce and outbreaks of norovirus on several cruise ships sailing in Europe and North America last summer and fall. The same cruise ship company was tied to all outbreaks.
France has reported COVID-19 outbreaks at 5,340 nursing homes since Mar 1.
Study reveals a 9.7% death rate in hospital patients—24.5% in those needing mechanical ventilators.
"I rightly resisted efforts to provide an unproven drug on demand to the American public," Bright says.
Hydroxychloroquine, with or without azithromycin, was not tied to lower mortality or less need for mechanical ventilation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday that it has concluded its investigation into a 10-state outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to contaminated clover sprouts that sickened 51 people, up 12 from the agency's Mar 19 update.
Public campaigns that use "fear-based" messaging to reduce antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) may be more effective if they also contain messages that empower patients to self-manage without antibiotics, UK researchers reported in a study published today in BMC Medicine.
Also, 2 studies explore infection dynamics in patients who show no symptoms.
