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Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Apr 26
India's health ministry has announced the launch of a nationwide, multi-sectoral effort to curb antimicrobial resistance.
China this week recorded a slowdown in new H7N9 avian influenza cases, but activity continued across a wide geographic range, including Beijing, and one of the illnesses occurred in a young child, according to update today from Hong Kong's Center for Health Protection (CHP).
Saudi Arabia today reported three more MERS-CoV cases, all of them in men from different parts of the country, two of whom had direct contact with camels.
Tocantins joins Para, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo, and Minas Gerais as states with confirmed human yellow fever cases.
In avian flu developments today, Russia reported two more highly pathogenic H5N8 outbreaks and Vietnam reported another H5N1 detection in backyard poultry, according to notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
In addition, Sweden and Hungary report H5N8 avian flu outbreaks in poultry.
A WHO official said the hospital cluster involves 17 illnesses, 9 of them fatal, and specimens from 6 people who died tested negative for Ebola.
As more and more Americans consume unpasteurized, or "raw," milk and cheese, a new study in Emerging Infectious Disease found that the unpasteurized products cause 840 times more illnesses and 45 times more hospitalizations than their pasteurized counterparts.
Combination antibiotics may be necessary only for the most severely ill patients.
New study estimates about 2,100 travelers return with the disease each year and almost 1,500 need hospitalization.
In its latest weekly influenza report, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today confirmed 29 new H7N9 avian flu cases in mainland China, the most since late February. There have now been 616 cases of H7N9 reported in China since October of last year, in what is the country's fifth wave of the disease, the CHP said.
Data presented at the 27th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), which wrapped up today, suggest that equipment already owned by most hospitals can quickly and accurately detect resistance to last-resort antibiotics like colistin.
Within 2 months of admission, 29% of C diff patients died, compared with 14% of the control group.
Officials plan to vaccinate the entire city of Rio this year, but current coverage is spotty.
Two new studies show fatal spinal damage and cognitive impairment associated with Zika infection.
Recommendations replace 2007 guidance and aim to improve planning and decision-making for use of nondrug mitigation strategies.
The World Health Organization (WHO) today noted two MERS-CoV cases in household contacts in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while Saudi health officials noted three asymptomatic cases.
The UAE cases involve roommates living in Abu Dhabi, the WHO said. One died on Apr 16, and the other was identified via contact tracing. The second patient was asymptomatic.
People who've had drug-resistant bacteria detected in their urine or feces have a higher risk of developing a drug-resistant bloodstream infection for several years afterward, according to a study presented yesterday at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
Study finds that phage lysins combined with elements of antibodies combat MRSA in mice.
