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A surveillance study of patients in a Veterans Administration (VA) long-term care facility and its affiliated acute care hospital detected the clonal outbreak of a newly recognized Clostridioides difficile strain, researchers reported yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
After going 63 days with no new cases, the Kalunguta health area now has 4 new infections.
The bankruptcy underscores the financial challenges faced by companies developing new antibiotics
Three more child flu deaths were reported, all from influenza B.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 26
A federal spending bill passed by Congress and signed by President Trump late last week includes millions in additional funds for agencies addressing antibiotic resistance. But funding remained flat for some efforts.
Qatar has reported three more MERS cases to the World Health Organization (WHO), the WHO said yesterday. The three cases are related, and all case-patients are from Doha.
The first case-patient is a 67-year-old woman who developed symptoms of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infection at the end of November, and died on Dec 12. The source of her illness is still under investigation.
In a new development, health officials enlisted the help of a resistant pastor to help support response efforts.
Earlier sites of CWD prion transmission in Minnesota have links to cervid farms.
Flu levels continued to rise in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia, with some countries reporting higher than normal influenza B activity, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Dec 20 in its latest global flu update.
Influenza B is still outpacing other flu viruses in a season now 6 weeks old.
Officials report new CWD cases in previously unaffected parts of Texas and Montana.
Regulators in Africa are reviewing the vaccine for licensing in at-risk countries.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Dec 19
Yesterday, French diagnostics company bioMerieux announced that that the Fleming Fund has selected it as a supplier in a tender process to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 18 low- and middle-income countries.
The multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections tied to contaminated romaine lettuce has grown by 36 illnesses, for a total of 138 cases in 25 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update yesterday.
Analysis reveals that 171 of the isolates are closely related and form a distinct lineage.
Three more Ebola cases have been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising the outbreak total to 3,354 cases, according to numbers reflected on the World Health Organization (WHO) online Ebola dashboard.
Health officials are still investigating 488 suspected cases. Also, 3 more people died from their infections, lifting the fatality count to 2,220.
By the age of 5, children in these countries receive 25 antibiotic courses on average.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO's) Ebola dashboard, two new cases of the viral disease were recorded today in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising the outbreak total to 3,351 cases including 2,217 deaths.
Officials are still investigating 519 suspected cases
