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The rate of antibiotic prescribing and the proportion of patients receiving antibiotics in primary care settings in England declined consistently from 2014 through 2017, researchers from King's College London reported yesterday in BMJ Open.
Ceftazidime-avibactam, meropenem-vaborbactam, and plazomicin were added as "reserve" antibiotics.
Fully 67.8% of patients received antibiotics for longer than recommended.
The drug was active against flu A, B, C, and D, as well as avian and swine strains.
As many as 1,465 cases and 293 to 520 deaths from MERS-CoV may have been averted.
In one group, 35% scored below average for language, 10% for cognitive development, and 16% for motor development.
In an interview with The Guardian, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the political climate in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is preventing an end to the current Ebola outbreak.
Data from Pakistan and South Africa highlight advantages of vaccination early in life.
With 29 new cases over the weekend and today, outbreak totals climb to 2,418, and Ebola deaths have now reached 1,625.
Late last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed nine new salmonellosis cases in a multistate outbreak and pinned the infections to just one brand: Cavi.
Officials have confirmed 51 infections since the beginning of the week.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Today the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported nine newly recorded polio cases in several countries, including Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Angola.
Seven of the new cases are wild poliovirus type 1 cases, recorded in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the virus is still endemic.
Data from a single-center study indicate widespread misdiagnosis of Lyme disease and unnecessary antibiotic treatment, particularly among those with unexplained symptoms lasting longer than 3 months, a team of US researchers reported today in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
USAID announces it wlll give the DRC $98 million to help fight the outbreak, which is now at 2,369 cases.
The rate of kindergartners not up to date on their vaccines dropped from 9.8% before the laws to 4.9% afterward.
A system recently launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor health-related workplace absenteeism during influenza seasons has yielded more evidence that the 2017-18 flu season was unusually severe, the CDC reported today.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that it is investigating a multistate outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella infections with suspected links to contact with pig-ear dog treats.
Vaccine effectiveness was 44% for the H1N1 strain but essentially zero for H3N2.
With 16 new infections, the outbreak total has grown to 2,354 cases, including 1,586 deaths, with 402 suspected cases.
