The findings provide another hint that the rare bacterial infection, typically linked to travel to tropical regions, might have domestic sources in the US.
Though the funding covers melioidosis and Marburg tests, ASPR said the new capability can be repurposed to develop and produce tests for other biological threats when needed.
Venatorx Pharmaceuticals announced this week that it has received a contract from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) to develop the combination antibiotic cefipime-taniborbactam for treatment of melioidosis.
Environmental sampling indicates Burkholderia pseudomallei is endemic in the Gulf Coast region.
The Indiana Board of Animal Health (IBAH) said today that initial tests at a third turkey farm in the state are positive for H5 avian flu. The new detection marks the United States' fifth recent outbreak in poultry. Further testing is under way to assess if the virus is the same highly pathogenic H5N1 strain that struck the first Indiana farm.
Experts faced 4 cases with little in common, and the disease is known as the "great mimicker," another difficulty.
Formula feeding is associated with a 70% increase in antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) abundance in the gut microbiome of infants compared with breast milk, US and Finnish researchers reported this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today that lab tests have identified a rare, potentially deadly bacterium in an aromatherapy spray.
Guinea's ministry of health (MOH) has confirmed the country's first Marburg virus case, also marking the first in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said today in a statement.
The global prevalence of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) has more than tripled in the past two decades, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis yesterday in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control.
