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A computer modeling study suggests that implementing a registry that tracks patients with extensively drug-resistant organisms (XDROs) could reduce the spread of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in a regional healthcare network, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A gastrointestinal illness outbreak involving several different pathogens linked to oysters imported from Mexico has sickened 16 people in 5 states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today.
Two people have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. The illnesses began Dec 16, 2018, and Apr 4 was the most recent onset.
Adults who had respiratory symptoms spread the virus to more people than other patients did.
The girl was beset with a multidrug-resistant non-TB Mycobacterium infection, and doctors had run out of tools.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) ministry of health confirmed that Ebola outbreak response activities partially resumed today in Butembo, after being suspended for 5 days due to several acts of violence.
Research today in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that nearly two-thirds of Americans enrolled in health insurance plans filled a prescription for an antibiotic over a 4-year period.
Response activities have been curbed owing to violence for 4 straight days, as deaths hit 1,069.
The national preparedness index score was 6.7 out of 10 in 2018, a 3.1% improvement.
Despite pockets of vaccine resistance that has led to a surge in measles cases in the United States, a new poll found that 87% of Americans believe the measles virus is dangerous and that 87% believe the vaccine against it is safe.
Researchers from Cornell University have discovered another variant of the mobile colistin-resistance gene MCR, according to a study yesterday in mBio.
Other high-priority diseases include West Nile, plague, rabies, and brucellosis.
Changes that broaden the reach of the vaccines reflect persistent insecurity problems, feedback from experts, and input from Ebola-hit communities.
A study yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases by Pakistani researchers describes the wide range of invasive infections and high mortality rate associated with the multidrug-resistant fungus Candida auris.
A 38-year-old man and his pregnant wife, 37, died in Mongolia from bubonic plague after eating tainted marmot meat, according to a report in The Siberian Times.
The Mongolian Ministry of Health confirmed the cause of death, and issued a quarantine for Ulgii, the town where the couple lived, leaving several dozen tourists stranded. The quarantine lifted yesterday, the BBC reported.
But gentamicin combined with azithromycin might be appropriate for some patients.
With 43 new cases and 37 new deaths, the outbreak has reached 1,572 cases and 1,045 deaths.
The US count grew by 60, to 764 cases, the most in 25 years, while Europe has recorded 13 deaths.
Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program intervention at 27 nursing homes in North Carolina was associated with reductions in urine culture and culture-positive rates, according to a study today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. But high proportions of antimicrobial resistance were still observed among common urinary pathogens.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) recently recorded a new case of MERS-CoV in Riyadh in an epidemiologic week 18 update.
A 59-year-old man from Riyadh was diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The man's case is listed as "primary," meaning he likely did not contract the disease from someone else. It is unknown if he had recent contact with camels.
