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Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Mar 17, 2021

Indian scientists isolate Candida auris in the environment

A team of Indian scientists yesterday reported the detection of Candida auris isolates from two sampling sites on islands in the Indian Ocean—the first time the multidrug-resistant yeast has been isolated in a natural environment. The discovery was reported in mBio.

  • Candida auris in the environment
  • Contact precautions for MRSA

COVID-19 Scan for Mar 10, 2021

Minorities bore brunt of COVID among young Americans early in pandemic

Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 infection rates were significant among Americans younger than 25 years early in the pandemic, particularly for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Hispanic people, according to a study today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR).

  • COVID-19 among young minorities
  • 'Long COVID' symptoms
  • COVID-19 and pneumococcal vaccine
  • Fungal infection with COVID

News Scan for Feb 08, 2021

DRC reports new Ebola case in earlier outbreak hot spot

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) yesterday announced a new Ebola case, its first since September, which involves a woman who died from her infection in Butembo, one of the main hot spots in the country's 10th outbreak that was centered in North Kivu and Ituri provinces.

  • Ebola returns to DRC
  • PAHO Candida auris alert
  • Avian flu outbreaks

Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Jan 22, 2021

Barriers to antibiotic stewardship at hospital discharge identified

Five barriers to better antibiotic decision-making at hospital discharge emerged after John Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers interviewed healthcare workers and discharged patients.

  • Hospital discharge antibiotics
  • Candida auris uptick

News Scan for Dec 30, 2020

Hospital-acquired infections complicate COVID-19 recovery

An Italian study in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy yesterday found that 21.9% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients acquired bacterial or fungal superinfections—infection by a secondary pathogen—that complicated the course of their recovery.

  • COVID-19 hospital infections
  • Yellow fever in Senegal

COVID-19 Scan for Aug 28, 2020

Coinfections with COVID-19, Candida auris confirmed in India

Scientists in New Delhi, India, report infections with worrisome multidrug-resistant Candida auris in 10 of 15 critically ill COVID-19 patients who also had candidemia over a span of several months, according to a report yesterday in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

  • COVID-19, C auris coinfections
  • COVID inflammatory syndrome in Chile, Iran

Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Jul 14, 2020

Survey highlights antifungal stewardship in pediatric hospitals

The results of a survey sent to pediatric antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) physicians and pharmacists indicate that most pediatric ASPs conduct antifungal stewardship but many don't feel confident about making antifungal recommendations, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

  • Pediatric antifungal stewardship
  • Less carbapenem use in Australia

News Scan for May 06, 2020

Study describes C auris bloodstream infections in Colombian kids

In a study today in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, US and Colombian researchers report that nearly one-third of the pediatric invasive Candida bloodstream infections (BSIs) analyzed at two Colombian pediatric hospitals were caused by Candida auris.

  • Pediatric Candida auris infections
  • Burundi measles outbreak

Stewardship / Resistance Scan for Apr 07, 2020

Nursing home study finds mixed results for antibiotic time-outs

Despite an increase in the frequency of early discontinuation of broad-spectrum antibiotics, the use of an antibiotic time-out (ATO) in nursing homes in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania had mixed results overall, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

  • Nursing home antibiotic time-outs
  • Antifungal stewardship in hospitals

News Scan for Feb 28, 2020

WHO marks week with no new Ebola cases in DRC

No new cases of Ebola were reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) over the past week, according to an update yesterday from the World Health Organization (WHO), leaving the case count at 3,444. It marks the first time since the outbreak began that no new confirmed cases were reported over a 7-day period.

  • No new DRC Ebola cases
  • US candidemia burden

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