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A non-restrictive antibiotic stewardship intervention was associated with reduced fluoroquinolone prescribing at two community hospitals in Los Angeles, researchers reported yesterday in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.
The authors said it's not clear if reduced severity stemmed from vaccination or from Omicron characteristics.
Also, Alaska reports its first case, leaving only 3 states without known illnesses.
A US surveillance study found 10% of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales infections were community-associated.
Rebound has also been seen in untreated people and in those who took molnupiravir, and the bottom line is treatments cut severe outcomes.
Nursing homes in US states with COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers saw a 7 percentage-point increase in staff vaccine uptake over homes in non-mandate states during a 5-month period in 2021, with no worsening of worker shortages, finds a study published late last week in JAMA Health Forum.
Officials from the two hot spots declared the emergencies to help free up more resources and streamline the monkeypox response.
Vaccine contracts with both Moderna and Pfizer come ahead of booster dose campaigns expected to begin in September.
COVID-19 patients who have a stroke are more than twice as likely to die than uninfected stroke patients and are often younger and healthier, finds research presented yesterday at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS's) 19th Annual Meeting in Toronto.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 28
An analysis of urine specimens from male patients in Germany found high levels of antibiotic resistance in the most frequent causes of urinary tract infections (UTIs), researchers reported today in Eurosurveillance.
Though vaccine hesitancy plays a role, decreased access to vaccination sites may be another overlooked barrier, researchers suggest.
Environmental sampling indicates Burkholderia pseudomallei is endemic in the Gulf Coast region.
CDC today also provided a racial and symptom profile of US cases, which are quickly nearing 5,000 infections.
A systematic review and meta-analysis published yesterday in BMJ estimates that 5.6% of COVID-19 survivors may face long-lasting changes to their sense of smell or taste, adding to concerns about the overall burden of long COVID.
The head of the WHO today urged men who have sex with men to cut their risk by reducing their number of sexual partners and exposure to new partners.
As the pandemic worsened the opioid crisis, some states saw steeper methadone distribution declines than others, though it's not clear why.
Of hospitalized COVID patients, 53% still had brain fog 13 months later.
Studies suggest the market didn't just amplify virus spread, it was the early epicenter and site of SARS-CoV-2 emergence.
The AMR Register will enable companies to share surveillance and susceptibility data with researchers.
