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Following an initial report of a case of measles at a daycare in Johnson County on Mar 8, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) said today that 10 cases in three counties have now been identified, including one not associated with the daycare center.
The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) today released a free e-book on global antimicrobial stewardship.
The CDC plans to post an announcement soon, which will include a recommendation that people not eat recalled Coconut Smiles Organic from Natural Grocers.
Yesterday and today, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced three new cases of MERS-CoV, including another household contact of a previously reported case in Jeddah.
Yesterday, the MOH said a 43-year-old Saudi man from Riyadh was in critical condition after being diagnosed as having MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus). The man had direct contact with camels.
A new surveillance report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) shows that the tuberculosis (TB) incidence rate in Europe is declining by an average of 4.3% a year, the fastest decline in the world compared with other regions. But officials warn that it's not falling fast enough to achieve the World Health Organization (WHO) goal of TB elimination in Europe by 2050.
More than 200 non-antibiotic drugs inhibited growth in at least 1 strain of gut bacteria.
New European avian flu detections include H5N6 in Sweden and Ireland, H5N8 in Italy, and low-path H5N3 in France.
Though many flu markers are declining, hospitalizations are still inching up, as expected in the latter part of the season.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) last week announced the launch of two phase 2 clinical trials of a candidate H7N9 influenza vaccine, one to assess different dosages with or without an adjuvant and the second to look at the adjuvanted vaccine's performance alongside a quadrivalent seasonal flu vaccine.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a new case of MERS-CoV late last week, in a household contact of a previously reported case.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Mar 15
A research team based in China yesterday reported that the newly identified colistin-resistance genes MCR-4 and MCR-5 occur widely in the country's pigs and poultry, according to a study in PLoS One.
With some multidrug-resistant bacteria, having infectious disease consults cut death rates 52% to 59%.
A 2-year follow-up study of the single-dose oral cholera vaccine (OCV) showed it was effective in adults and children over the age of 5 years. Consistent with results from the 6-month follow-up, the vaccine failed to protect children under the age of 5 from the disease.
In 3 similar recent studies of different populations, the rates of microcephaly have been similar: 3.4% to 5.8%.
The finding "affords us the opportunity to be aggressive about prevention."
Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) have become an increasingly common cause of healthcare-related bacteremia, and two new studies published yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy shed new light on managing the infections, one exploring treatment with high-dose daptomycin and another that found longer exposure to vancomycin, fluoroquinolone, or meropenem was associated with tha
The number of suspected cases in Nigeria's Lassa fever outbreak has climbed to 1,386 over the past week, which includes 12 more confirmed cases and 4 more deaths, the country's Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said in its latest report for the week ending Mar 11. So far 365 confirmed cases and 114 deaths have been reported.
Researchers find that 80% of local health department have communication and referral mechanisms between their maternal and child health programs and agency programs, and 78% have access to electronic lab results.
A total of 76 people in 19 states have been sickened with Salmonella linked to pet turtles, according to a final investigation report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's 10 more cases in 1 more state compared with the CDC's previous update, which was in November.
