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Soon after vaccine advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday voted to recommend updated COVID boosters that target the original virus plus the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, endorsed the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation, paving the way for immunization to begin.
Yesterday, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) launched the Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Accreditation Scheme (GAMSAS), which aims to support healthcare organizations globally by recognizing good practices to combat antimicrobial resistance, identifying areas for improvement, and supporting education and training.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
A handful of college campuses, as well as high schools and middle schools, are dealing with monkeypox cases.
A relatively simple 6-month regimen cured 90% or more of patients who have MDR-TB.
Experts voted 13-1 to approve both boosters, which target the original strain plus the latest subvariants.
Children were more likely to be COVID orphans if they lived in poor nations with high chronic disease rates.
Infections with previous COVID-19 variants offer more protection against the Omicron BA.5 subvariant in vaccinated people compared with vaccinated people who had no previous infections, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study yesterday.
Diagnostics company Avails Medical announced today that it has received an additional $1.7 million in funding from CARB-X (the Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator) to continue developing a rapid electronic antibiotic susceptibility test (AST).
Researchers say the findings could help shift the focus of antibiotic stewardship efforts in low-resource settings.
The CDC advisory group discussions begin tomorrow, as the top WHO official urged countries to prepare for rising cases in the months ahead.
Parental risk factors for head trauma in babies during the pandemic included life stress such as job loss, intimate partner violence, and lifestyle changes.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) yesterday urged health providers to ask patients with suspected flu infections outside of the regular flu season to ask about any recent exposure to pigs.
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, of the World Health Organization (WHO) today said many European countries, including Germany and the Netherlands, were showing continued slowing of new monkeypox cases, while countries in the Americas (save for Canada) are still seeing increased case counts.
Public health professionals use some terms imprecisely, others incorrectly, and still others technically accurate but almost sure to be misunderstood by the public.
The patient who died was described as being severely immune-compromised.
Neutralizing antibody levels peaked at 84% but remained around 70% for up to 13 months.
A single-center study in North Carolina showed that a multifaceted initiative was associated with a significant and sustainable decrease in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB; bacteria in the urine) and asymptomatic pyuria (ASP; elevated white blood cells in the urine), researchers reported today in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epide
Two Omicron SARS-CoV-2 subvariants—BA.5 and BA.4.6—increased their predominance last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said today in its latest update.
The funds will support the first US-based fill-and-finish effort of Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos vaccine.
