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A phase 2 study of an adjuvanted subunit vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) in young and middle-aged adults with the latent form of the disease found that it was 54% effective against progression to the active pulmonary form of the disease. An international team led by scientists from GlaxoSmithKline, the vaccine's developer, reported its findings today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A small single-center UK study has demonstrated that a diagnostics-driven antifungal stewardship (AFS) program was tied to an 89% drop in inappropriate prescribing, according to a study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Cases have now reached 149, including 100 fatalities.
The office of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced today that the New York State Department of Health (DOH) will partner with ILÚM Health Solutions to develop a research program to detect, track, and manage antibiotic-resistant infections at healthcare facilities across the state.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said today that six suspected monkeypox cases are associated with one of the recent monkeypox illnesses in England, in a report that noted two new confirmed cases in the same Nigerian state as the suspected cases.
The case is in Tchomia, on Lake Albert, which straddles the DRC-Uganda border.
The DoD has made only 18 of 35 proposed changes designed to enhance lab security, the report says.
Cargill Meat Solutions of Fort Morgan, Colo., has recalled more than 130,000 pounds of ground beef products after they were tied to an 18-case, four-state outbreak of Escherichia coli infections that has left one person dead, federal officials said yesterday.
A new report from CARB-X highlights the progress the public-private partnership made in its second year of operation.
The new data highlight an especially profound impact on the very young and very old.
Some health workers were not wearing adequate personal protective equipment, the report says.
The outbreak, which began in 2016, affected 118 people in 18 states.
US Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials have confirmed a second outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N3 avian flu in a California turkey flock in the same county—Stanislaus—as one reported a week ago, according to a World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) report yesterday.
Some illnesses reflect restaurant clusters linked to contaminated basil, cilantro.
As the number of Ebola cases and deaths held steady in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the last 2 days, the number of people vaccinated passed the 10,000 mark.
With HHS taking the lead, the new strategy establishes a cabinet-level biodefense steering committee.
TB remains high in many low- and middle-income nations, and about 558,000 people in 2017 developed rifampicin-resistant TB.
For the fourth year in a row, uptake of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine has fallen in the United Kingdom, and now stands at 91.2%, well below the 95% uptake recommended to prevent transmission of the communicable diseases.
Few outpatient clinics in New York City—one of the nation's most densely populated cities—have antibiotic stewardship programs, according to a study that focused on prescriptions written for acute respiratory infections. A team from several facilities in the city published its findings today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
