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Enhanced surveillance has identified five US cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid infections associated with travel to Pakistan, according to a report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Mozambique declared an outbreak of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) after two cases were detected in the Zambezi province. Details of the outbreak are published today in the latest weekly update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Intensive 5-day training aims to engage students in scientific discovery.
In research news, tests in animals show promise for a new monoclonal antibody therapy.
A patient in a Laramie County, Wyo., hospital has been confirmed to have an infection caused by an Enterobacteriaceae containing the MCR-1 resistance gene, which confers resistance to the critical antibiotic colistin, the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said yesterday in a news release.
Because of the federal government shutdown, now in its third week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended all routine inspections of domestic food-processing facilities, a move that alarms some food safety advocates.
US kids receive more than 2 million unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions a year in ERs.
Safety profile was good, and sensitivity analysis favored delamanid as part of MDR-TB treatment.
Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case today in the city of Jeddah. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 2 notification.
Public Health England (PHE) is investigating two cases of extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
Infection rates were 10 times higher in children from an Orthodox Jewish community.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's health ministry today reported two new cases, edging the outbreak total to 627 cases, including 579 confirmed and 48 probable infections. One of the new case-patients is from Oicha, and the other is from Katwa.
Health officials are still investigating 98 suspected Ebola cases.
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who received the seasonal influenza vaccine had a38% reduction in influenza-related hospitalizations compared with those who were unvaccinated. The findings, based on a Canadian study, are published in Chest.
For the flu shot, effectiveness was 67%, and for FluMist it was a not-significant 20%.
The DRC recorded 16 new Ebola cases from towns and cities across North Kivu and Ituri provinces
Today Saudi Arabia's ministry of health (MOH) reported a new MERS-CoV case, the third case connected to a household cluster in Riyadh. The notice came in an epidemiologic week 2 notification.
Researchers in Finland report in a study yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection that the use of oral antibiotics before joint replacement surgery is common and may lower the risk for periprosthetic joint infection (PJI), but indiscriminate use of antibiotics before such surgeries cannot be recommended.
Nineteen states report high flu-like illness activity, and pediatric deaths rose to 13.
The DRC update for yesterday reported 2 more deaths, bringing the fatality count to 370.
