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Clinical follow-up of 141 babies born with congenital Zika virus problems who were evaluated at a referral center in Brazil revealed that 67% experienced epilepsy, a prevalence that was higher than the 9% to 50% reported in earlier studies. Researchers from Brazil described their findings today in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine.
A systematic review and analysis of available evidence by researchers in the United Kingdom has identified previous antibiotic exposure, underlying disease, and invasive procedures as the top risk factors for antibiotic resistance in humans.
Cases are at 112 (84 confirmed); officials are also tracking 18 suspected cases.
The new data mark a 4th straight year of "steep and sustained" increases.
The British Society of Gastroenterology and the Healthcare Infection Society have published guidelines for the use and screening of fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) in patients with recurrent or refractory Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a case of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or "mad cow" disease) in a 6-year-old beef cow in Florida.
The resistant E coli sublineage ST131-H22 has become established in poultry.
A new study in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy shows that Internet-based communication training might be a cost-effective way to limit primary care antibiotic prescriptions when compared with C-reactive protein (CRP) testing.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) recently announced a collaboration with Germany-based IDT Biologika worth up to $36 million to develop and produce a vaccine against Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Also, 3 experts assert that pregnant and lactating women should get the vaccine.
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and Empire Kosher Poultry, Inc. late last week issued a public health alert over Salmonella illnesses in several states that might be tied to raw chicken products.
The substitution of bedaquiline for second-line injectable antibiotics (SLIs) in a small group of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) resulted in improved outcomes, South African researchers report in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The oropharyngeal cancer rate increased 2.8% per year in men and 0.6% in women.
ACIP suggests vaccination by the end of October—but the start date is less clear.
There are as many as two more suspected cases in the town in North Kivu.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reported yesterday that French diagnostics firm bioMerieux has recalled two of its antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) cards because of false results for some strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
For the third week in a row the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed four cases of variant H1N2 (H1N2v) flu, this time in California and Ohio.
Almost 500 more people have been vaccinated, bringing the total to 2,179.
The patient is thought to have contracted the disease while in the Middle East.
