In Orange County, California, COVID-19 vaccination in healthcare personnel (HCP) was connected with a 94% reduction in HCP cases 3 weeks after second doses of mRNA-based vaccines were administered, according to a JAMA Network Open research letter yesterday.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) announced today that it is partnering with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to launch a center focused on research into antimicrobial resistance and tuberculosis (TB).
A study of hospital patients in Israel found a link between multidrug-resistant gut bacteria and exposure to commonly used non-antimicrobial drugs (NAMDs), researchers reported last week at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
Today a consensus statement by several leading public health organizations and a commentary in the Annals of Internal Medicine voiced support for mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in US healthcare workers (HCWs).
Patients in several high-income countries still have limited access to most of the new antibacterials approved since 2010, and as a result sales revenue for these drugs has been insufficient—findings that highlight the poor commercial prospects for new antibiotics, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Half of 399 hospitalized COVID-19 patients developed bacterial infections 48 or more hours after hospitalization, according to a PLOS One study yesterday. The bacterial superinfections were associated most strongly with lung disease, encephalopathy, mechanical ventilation, hospital stay of 8 or more days, and steroid treatment.
Yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine results from a phase 3 trial showed that a combination of bamlanivimab plus etesevimab monoclonal antibodies led to a lower incidence of COVID-19–related hospitalization and deaths.
New data presented today indicate that a shorter treatment regimen for highly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB) remains highly effective with reduced doses of one of its components.
A multicomponent intervention implemented at nursing homes in Michigan significantly reduced the prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in residents' rooms, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial reported today in JAMA Network Open.
While Latino people have lower rates of mortality despite their higher rates of poverty compared with White people in the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic erased it, at least in Los Angeles County, according to a JAMA research letter yesterday.
The Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) and the country's Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Network have published a new One Health–focused report that proposes improvements to a pan-Canadian AMR governance structure and optimal models for responding to AMR.
Children and teens spread COVID-19 to household adults after returning home from a sleep-away camp in June 2020, according to correspondence published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday.
Patients with a history of COVID-19 were more likely to have side effects after their first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine than those who were never infected, according to a Vaccine study yesterday.
In the wake of media reports from India that said the country has detected its first human avian flu case, the health ministry today confirmed that H5 was found in a child who had underlying health conditions and died on Jul 12. The ministry report in Hindi was translated and posted by Avian Flu Diary (AFD), an infectious disease news blog.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 22
Nearly two thirds of COVID-19 patients without bacterial or fungal co-infections in Michigan hospitals received antibiotics during the first wave of the pandemic, University of Michigan researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Out of 574 multiple-occupancy dorm rooms, roommate transmissions occurred only 20% of the time, according to a study during the fall 2020 semester at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The discontinuation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) at a South Korean hospital led to a rapid return of antibiotic use patterns observed before the ASP was implemented, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Republicans' intended COVID-19 vaccine uptake rose 7% after watching and reading endorsements from elite Republican leaders versus those from Democrat leaders, according to a study published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
COVID-19 reduced lifespan by up to 9 years in parts of the United States, per a new "mean unfulfilled lifespan" (MUL) metric, according to a study published yesterday in PLOS One.
The MUL is a new indicator of the impact of mortality shocks, such as the novel coronavirus or other natural disaster, on peoples' lifespan.
Five research institutions in France are under a 3-month moratorium on prion research after a retired lab worker who handled prions was diagnosed as having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), according to a report today in Science.
A new report from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) shows a global decline in the use of antimicrobials in animals.
Vaccine effectiveness (VE) for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine against COVID-19 was 91% up to 6 months after the second dose, according to a non–peer-reviewed study published yesterday on the preprint server medRxiv.
Originally published by CIDRAP News Jul 29
Researchers found that different age-groups had different associations with various COVID-19 symptoms, according to a Lancet Digital Health study late last week. The study was evaluating an artificial intelligence (AI) model for early COVID-19 detection (1 to 3 days of symptom onset).
