Basic molecular typing and routine hospital data can be used in resource-limited settings to do lab surveillance of antimicrobial resistance organizations, according to researchers in Sri Lanka who reported their findings yesterday in BMC Infectious Diseases.
Canadian researchers are reporting the first case of the drug-resistant fungal pathogen Candida auris in Canada.
A hands-on educational program dramatically increased primary school students' knowledge of antibiotic action and use, according to a study yesterday in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.
A new rapid screening method streamlines the process of identifying "synergistic" drug combinations.
A single-center study in Egypt found that nearly two thirds of the Enterobacteriaceae isolates collected from the feces of patients who had community-onset gastrointestinal complaints were extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producers, and 4.4% were carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE).
Researchers have identified the colistin resistance gene MCR-1 in Escherichia coli samples from two patients in Australia, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
Yesterday Brazil's Ministry of Health lifted the state of emergency caused by the Zika virus, due to the country's dwindling case counts of the mosquito-borne disease.
Two European countries—Italy and Russia—reported new highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu outbreaks, and Vietnam reported five H5N1 events that were detected back in February, according to the latest notifications from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
A new study of antimicrobial stewardship efforts at Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine has identified factors associated with positive and negative effects on antimicrobial utilization.
US lawmakers today introduced legislation that would provide a tax credit for new antibiotics and diagnostic tests.
