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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.
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.
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.
The company will phase out the use of the highest-value human antibiotics in its global chicken supply.
The country's first poultry outbreak has been confirmed to be caused by H5N6.
A study today involving 111 patients found that early fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) dramatically improves survival in severe Clostridium difficile infections (CDIs).
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) reported two new cases of MERS-CoV today, one in Dumah Al Jandal and the other in Hail, both in the north-central part of the country.
Scientists detail a rare mutation that causes resistance to levofloxacin.
In an ongoing multistate Cyclospora outbreak, 96 more patients without a history of international travel who were sick on or after May 1 have been reported to the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), boosting the national total to 347, according to the agency's latest update.
Men who contract Zika virus have lower sperm counts for 1 to 2 months after infection.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a new case of MERS-CoV yesterday, in a patient who had contact with camels, a known risk factor for contracting the virus.
In a study designed to help clinicians and health policy makers decide whether to recommend and offer annual flu vaccination, a new meta-analysis published today found no evidence that prior season immunization blunts the protection of the current seasonal vaccine.
Researchers from Ontario and Hong Kong published their meta-analysis of observational studies today in BMC Medicine.
Ebola survivors have 7 times the disability rate of close contacts, and the virus likely causes muscle damage.
In other developments, a few more cases were reported in the Americas and mosquito trials showed a risk of spread in major Kenyan cities.
Dutch investigators have identified the colistin resistance gene MCR-1 in nearly 25% of samples of Dutch retail chicken meat, according to a new study in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
For the study, the investigators bought 214 chicken meat samples from four supermarket chains throughout the Netherlands in 2015. They collected 53 or 54 samples from each chain.
A total of 961 cases of Salmonella illness have been linked to exposure to backyard poultry, according to an update today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The outbreaks have occurred in 48 states and resulted in 215 hospitalizations and 1 death.
