A study yesterday by experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that the incidence of Clostridium difficile in long-term care facilities decreased 17.5% annually from 2011 to 2015 at 10 US sites, along with a concomitant decline in inpatient fluoroquinolone use.
Health officials in Los Angeles County today announced the area's first sexually transmitted Zika case, which involves a male resident who traveled to Mexico and had Zika symptoms in early November and his female partner, who did not travel.
A study yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases reports high long-term success rates of fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) against recurrent Clostridium difficile infection (CDI).
Emory University researchers contacted all eligible patients who received FMT for recurrent CDI from Jul 1, 2012, to Dec 31, 2016. Of 190 eligible patients, 137 (72%) completed the telephone survey.
A 3-track system would offer key advantages to the FDA's approach, the experts say.
China has detected two new human avian influenza cases, one involving an adult sickened by H7N9 and the other a young child infected with H9N2, according to government reports in the region.
Rates of prevention of recurrent C diff were similar, with fewer side effects.
The results of a small phase 1 clinical trial show that an activated charcoal product helped protect the gut microbiome in volunteers treated with moxifloxacin, French researchers report in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program was associated with lower use of antimicrobials deemed high risk and some reduction in Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), according to a single-center study yesterday in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) this week launched an Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) in Primary Care and hospital guidelines on multidisciplinary prescribing as two key steps in rolling out the Hong Kong Strategy and Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
A study of Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals has found that cases of community-associated Clostridium difficile infection (CA-CDI) are on the rise, researchers from the University of Texas at Austin reported yesterday in the American Journal of Infection Control.
