Vabomere was developed to treat serious infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.
The study of people in Salvador, Brazil, shows infection rates exceeding 60% in many populations.
The study underscores the difficulty of identifying and isolating infected people.
Scientists are sifting through which of dozens of serologic tests are going to be useful for assessing how many people have been exposed. But only one test has been reviewed by the FDA.
Italian clinicians report 10 cases in about a month, a 30-fold increase.
Among all patients studied across 24 nations, 51.2% had pulmonary complications and 38.0% died.
Antibiotic therapy with CRP-guided duration or fixed 7-day duration were found to be non-inferior to 14 days of antibiotics.
(CIDRAP News) Minnesota health groups today unveiled two preliminary guidance reports designed to help the state make and implement difficult decisions about allocating scare resources such as antivirals, respirators, ventilators, and vaccines during a severe influenza pandemic.
Experts say the cost of a scale-up is $34 billion but would pay for itself 8 times over.
The Asian Zika virus strain was found to be the cause, a first for an African country.
Two of the three wild poliovirus strains are now eradicated globally.
It's approved for complicated UTIs caused by gram-negative bacteria—with a caveat.
Experts say two new reports provide deeper insight into how and why antibiotics are being used in US agriculture.
Researchers find an increase in vaccine virus shedding and seroconversion.
If a new bill is passed, Congress would provide $11 billion over 10 years to support antibiotic development.
A 5-pronged critique of messaging since the beginning of the pandemic and what we can learn to improve going forward.
As many as 1 in 100 hospitalized COVID-19 patients may experience a pneumothorax.
The WHO says further investigation is under way into two new variants recently detected in Brazil.
"COVID-19 has really put a spotlight on the importance of preparedness."
Common missteps include failure to proclaim uncertainty, fake consensus, prioritizing health over truth, failure to own mistakes, not addressing misinformation credibly and empathetically, and politicization.
In another study, researchers found that COVID-19 vaccine incentives didn't increase vaccine uptake.
Study reveals a small link between school closures and worse mental health, particularly in older and minority students.
The problem is USDA testing doesn't verify claims of no antibiotics, experts note.
In this episode, Dr. Osterholm and Chris Dall discuss the state of the pandemic in China, South Africa, and the U.S.; the latest data on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine; and CIDRAP's Coronavirus Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap. Dr. Osterholm also answers a COVID query about fourth doses of mRNA vaccines and shares a beautiful place from one of our listeners.
(CIDRAP News) – Data on recent salmonellosis outbreaks indicate that drug-resistant strains of Salmonella enterica serotype Newport are becoming increasingly common in dairy cattle and are causing a growing share of infections in humans, according to a foodborne disease expert with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
