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Since November 2018, hospitals in the Tuscany region of Italy have reported 350 cases of New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM)-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported yesterday in a rapid risk assessment.
The groups welcomed new commitments to humanitarian aid, but said a response reset is needed.
Two case contacts have fevers, and 2 nurses who cared for the man also have symptoms.
A coalition of food safety, health, and consumer groups today urged fast-food giant Wendy's to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics in its beef supply chain.
The tick was found on a manicured lawn and in sunny areas, which differs from other tick species.
An ethics committee fine-tuned an earlier vaccine recommendation, clearing its use in pregnant women past their first trimester and lactating women.
In its regular weekly report on measles, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today reported 41 more illnesses since its update the previous week, boosting the year's total so far to 981 cases. The CDC added that this year's number so far is the highest in the United States since 1992 and the highest since the disease was eliminated in 2000.
Researchers from Vanderbilt University Medical Center have found a dose-dependent association between infant antibiotic exposure and subsequent development of childhood asthma, according to a new study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Dentists "need to be included in this conversation around antibiotic use."
The death rate in infected preschoolers is 77%, compared with 57% for other Ebola patients.
The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday announced 10 more cases of Salmonella Typhimurium illness linked to pet hedgehogs, and 6 more states are affected. The new cases raise the outbreak total to 27 cases in 17 states.
Close human interaction was highly associated with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (ESBL-KP) but less so with ESBL-producing Escherichia coli (ESBL-EC) in a nursing home setting, according to a study by French researchers yesterday in PLOS Computational Biology.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A large chunk of cases are from 2 big outbreaks in and around New York City.
Experts say the outbreak likely began as far back as April 2018 and that nosocomial transmission played a big role in early spread.
The World Health Organization (WHO) polio emergency committee met for the 21st time last week and unanimously agreed that the spread of polio still remains a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under International Health Regulations.
The WHO warns that a decline in the rate of cases should be interpreted with extreme caution.
A group of patients in Inner Mongolia likely represent the first identified human cases of a new tick-borne illness, Alongshan virus (ALSV), which belongs to the jingmenvirus group in the flavivirus family. A description of ALSV and these cases was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A multicenter study looking at total durations of antibiotic exposure related to hospitalization indicates that more than a third of hospital-related antibiotic exposure occurs after patients are discharged from the hospital, researchers from Duke and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Experts say two new reports provide deeper insight into how and why antibiotics are being used in US agriculture.
