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A workgroup on behavioral approaches to antibiotic stewardship has identified research priority areas for optimizing effective implementation of antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) in hospital settings. The findings were published yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
It could be a helpful tool for antibiotic stewardship in hospitals that lack optimal specialists.
Tests on 10 people on a flight from Dubai to New York City who were hospitalized afterward showed no illnesses except for flu and common cold viruses, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health) announced today, adding that it expects all 10 people to be released soon.
According to an outbreak update from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), officials recorded three more confirmed cases of Ebola yesterday, including one in a patient who died in Butembo, a major city in North Kivu province.
Baloxavir reduced flu symptoms by 1 day and reduced viral shedding.
An Ebola-infected patient died in Butembo, a city of nearly 1 million people.
The spread of bacteria in people, animals, and the environment is a major factor in high resistance levels, new data suggest.
An Emirates Airline flight arriving at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates at about 9 am this morning was held on the tarmac after 100 people were reportedly ill on the flight. According Eric Phillips, press secretary with the New York mayor's office, there were 521 people on the flight, which stopped in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, after it began in Dubai.
Both AAP and the CDC, though, support using FluMist with the goal of optimizing vaccine coverage.
Officials confirmed 5 cases in recent days, bringing the outbreak total to 121.
The arrival of the inevitable untreatable cases is being sped up by rising rates of gonorrhea and other STDs.
Saudi Arabia's health ministry reported three new MERS-CoV cases so far in the first days of September, according to a post summarizing activity in epidemiologic week 36.
An analysis of diagnostic reports from a veterinary clinic in Singapore suggests sick companion pets could be a reservoir for multidrug-resistant bacteria, according to a letter published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Of 18 cases, 15 are in Florida; the meat producer has not been named.
One more case has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) latest Ebola outbreak, in a patient from Beni, the health ministry said yesterday in its latest update.
A new white paper from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) advises against routine testing for Clostridioides difficile (formerly Clostridium difficile) infection (CDI) in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) patients.
Goma is the capital of North Kivu province, near the border with Rwanda.
The study provides evidence that population immunity is critical for the successful phase-out of oral polio vaccines.
