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Data collected from Canadian acute care hospitals show significant increases in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) bloodstream infections (BSIs) in recent years, according to a study in the Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR).
An international study found similar results with either a 5-day or 10-day course of the antiviral drug.
US cases top 1.7 million, and Washington state patients are now trending younger.
Ventilation, filtration, disinfection, and avoidance of air recirculation are possible steps.
Brazil's surge shows no sign of slowing, with more than 20,000 new cases.
CARB-X today announced an award of up to $6.1 million to support the preclinical development of an inhaled antibiotic to treat cystic fibrosis (CF)-related pulmonary infections
Yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine a study of Louisiana COVID-19 patients showed major racial and ethnic differences in both hospitalization rates and in-hospital deaths.
In Connecticut, 2.9% of asymptomatic pregnant women tested positive, while in Boston it was 1.5%.
Another study of hydroxychloroquine was paused to look for safety signals, with some nations banning its use.
Also, a new poll shows only about half of Americans saying yes to a vaccine once it's available.
A study yesterday in the Annals of Internal Medicine of more than 2,000 Europeans diagnosed as having mild to moderate COVID-19 shows that 87% reported loss of smell, and 56% reported taste dysfunction. The study suggests olfactory symptoms and taste disorders may be a common feature of COVID-19 infection.
A review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) has found no conclusive evidence that post-operative antibiotic prophylaxis reduces incidence of surgical-site infections, a finding that supports the World Health Organization's (WHO's) recommendation for discontinuation of the practice, researchers reported yesterday in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Antibiotic use among sick children under the age of 5 increased 17% from 2005 to 2017.
Worries are also rising about the pandemic's impact on the healthcare of Latin Americans who have noncommunicable diseases, who make up 25% of the population.
The community infection rate dropped 58% after the orders were issued.
Health officials in St. Louis are calling for Lake of the Ozarks partygoers to quarantine for 14 days.
An assessment of community antibiotic prescribing in French children found high rates of prescribing for viral respiratory tract infections (RTIs) and broad-spectrum antibiotic use, particularly among clinicians 50 years and older, French researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Low oxygen levels at hospital admission and signs of inflammation were the strongest predictors of serious COVID-19 illness and death in a prospective cohort study published late last week in BMJ.
Also, hospitals in India and Chile are reaching their limits.
The data show the antiviral drug cut recovery time from 15 to 11 days.
