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Ebola infections have been confirmed in 12 more people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including 6 in Katwa, one of the more recent hot spots, the country's health ministry said today.
Contrafect Corporation announced yesterday that it has received an additional $2.3 million in funding over the next 2 years from CARB-X for the development of a phage lysin therapy to treat drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
Experts found 23.2% of antibiotics were inappropriate, but many other prescriptions fell in gray areas.
Peter Salama says high rates in children might be due to facility types.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday posted a summary of five MERS-CoV cases reported by Saudi Arabia during December, covering new clinical details that weren't included in initial reports.
About one fourth of children younger than age 2 who are seen in US emergency departments (EDs) for bronchiolitis, a common viral lung infection in that age-group, received an antibiotic prescription, despite 2006 recommendations against the treatment in the absence of documented bacterial infection.
Oral antibiotic prescribing by dermatologists fell 37% from 2008 through 2016, but use in some areas rose.
Italian researchers report that an antimicrobial stewardship program based on a clinical pathway (CP) was associated with both an improved choice of antibiotic and duration of perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis (PAP) in pediatric surgical patients. The findings appeared yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak grew by five cases today, with illnesses reported in four different location, according to the health ministry's daily update.
The new cases and 6 new deaths bring the outbreak total to 658 and the fatality count to 402, with 200 cases still being investigated.
The review recommends categorizing patients into low-, medium-, and high-risk.
About 400 staffers have returned from furlough, 150 of them for food inspections.
Today Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 3 notification.
A study of pig farms in nine European countries suggests antimicrobial use during the fattening phase is associated with antimicrobial resistance, researchers from the European Union Ecology from Farm to Fork Of microbial drug Resistance and Transmission (EFFORT) project reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Also, a US health worker who was possibly exposed was released from monitoring.
Researchers with Public Health England (PHE) report that a survey of England's National Health Service (NHS) hospitals found that the vast majority have made progress in establishing antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs), but many lack senior leadership and dedicated funding, and there was no significant correlation between stewardship scores and antimicrobial usage.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today recorded 3 new cases of acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), bringing the total for 2018 to 196 confirmed cases. The confirmed cases are among the 357 reports that CDC received of patients under investigation.
2018 has seen the most AFM cases of any year since the CDC began tracking the mysterious illness in 2014.
The CDC estimates 2.9 million to 3.5 million have needed to see a doctor, and up to 83,500 have been hospitalized for flu.
Late-career docs were 50% more likely to prescribe long courses than younger docs.
