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Sepsis patients who received a slightly higher emergency department (ED) triage score received antibiotics faster, a crucial step for survival, researchers from Intermountain Medical Center reported yesterday at the American Thoracic Society annual meeting under way in Dallas.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday closed its investigation into a multistate Salmonella outbreak tied to frozen tuna after confirming two new cases.
The 19 new infections raise the outbreak total to 1,866 cases amid continued threats.
Two strategies—handshake stewardship and diagnostic stewardship—rose to the top.
US scientists have developed and validated a clinical decision guideline (CDG) for flu testing in emergency departments, according to a study yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) today reported one more MERS-CoV case, which involves a patient from Al Kharj. This is the second case to originate in that city in the past week.
Seventeen of 20 companies now have publicly available policies.
In another development, arson threats at Masereka health facilities impeded infection prevention steps.
It a development that has the potential to replace cold chain antiviral vaccine storage systems that make it difficult to immunize people in remote and low-resource regions of the world, researchers today described a stable, affordable system for storing fragile vaccines for weeks. Researchers based at McMaster University described their findings today in Scientific Reports.
A letter sent to the highest antibiotic-prescribing General Practitioners (GPs) in Northern Ireland was tied to a nearly 5% reduction in prescribing in those practices over the course of a year, researchers reported yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
"One of the world's most dangerous viruses in one of the world's most dangerous areas," WHO director-general says.
The agency is tracking 10 active outbreaks across the country, including one involving almost 500 cases in New York City.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) yesterday reported one more MERS-CoV case, which involves a patient from Al Kharj. Also, the World Health Organization (WHO) provided new details about nine cases reported in Saudi Arabia from Apr 9 to Apr 30, including five that were part of ongoing clusters in three different cities.
The study supports WHO guidance for conserving vaccine during shortages.
The government of Northern Ireland yesterday announced a 5-year, One Health action plan to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) ministry of health confirmed 17 new cases of Ebola today and 16 more deaths in the ongoing outbreak in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
So far 68% of deaths have occurred outside of Ebola treatment centers, a worrisome statistic.
International travel and low vaccination rates have combined to ignite outbreaks.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday that it, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state health partners are investigating a multistate Salmonella Concord outbreak linked to imported tahini.
The outbreak comes less than 3 months since the CDC wrapped up an investigation into a different Salmonella Concord outbreak linked to tahini.
