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German researchers have found a significant increase in strains of Escherichia coli carrying a gene linked to extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production, according to a study yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Older adults were hardest hit by Guillain-Barre syndrome in northeast Brazil.
Molecular respiratory viral testing had minimal impact on reducing antibiotic utilization among viral pneumonia patients, according to a study yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday said French officials have notified it of a fatal yellow fever case in a 43-year-old Brazilian woman in French Guiana whose vaccination status isn't known.
Vabomere was developed to treat serious infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
The hypervirulent, highly drug-resistant, and highly transmissible strains killed all 5 infected patients.
"It would be a mistake to divert important resources during this time toward tetanus vaccination."
Today the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new MERS-CoV cases in Dumah Al Jandal. At this time, it's not known if the new cases are related to a hospital outbreak in that city first reported at the beginning of August.
The roadmap includes 11 recommendations on antibiotic use in food animals split into 3 key areas.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said a Salmonella outbreak linked to pet turtles has sickened 37 people in 13 states, about one third of them children younger than 5 years.
The number of people sickened in France's outbreak has grown from 2 to 13.
The annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca begins on Wednesday.
Marshals sieze 5 vials of vaccinia virus vaccine, reserved only for those at high risk of smallpox.
Mexico, Belize, and Costa Rica are among the few Americas countries reporting small increases in Zika virus activity, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said in its Aug 25 epidemiologic update.
Researchers have discovered that more than 10% of patients with chronic ear infections at an ear, nose, and throat clinic in Angola were co-colonized with a fluoroquinolone-resistant bacterium commonly found in bird feces.
Though coverage still isn't optimal, for the first time rates topped 60%, with the boys' level gaining ground on the girls'.
The two reports suggest US antibiotic stewardship programs are paying off.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
UK researchers have discovered that microbes living at low populations densities—dubbed "lonely" microbes—have higher rates of mutations that cause antibiotic resistance, according to their study yesterday in PLoS Biology.
An investigation into a 73-year-old Arizona woman's death related to a Francisella tularensis infection (tularemia) in June 2016 revealed that she probably contracted the bacterium, classified by federal health officials as a tier 1 select agent, from her pet dog.
China reported two H7N9 avian flu infections this week, both of them involving men in Xinjiang autonomous region in the far northwest of the country, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said today in an update.
