Following Listeria outbreaks and recalls, an ongoing review identified several steps that can be quickly implemented.
Differences were driven by improved response rates for patients with pneumonia who were treated with ceftolozane–tazobactam.
After problems with earlier samples, a fuller picture of the outbreak is emerging following another round of testing.
At six Veterans Affairs clinics, quarterly antibiotic use reports and adverse event letters were associated with lower antibiotic prescribing.
The affected buck was harvested by a hunter on November 19 in the southeast corner of the reservation, which is located in northeastern Wisconsin.
Africa CDC shared findings from a review of the response and said doses of the LC16 vaccine from Japan will arrive this week.
The case was identified in a nursing home patient in North Carolina, but no transmission was detected.
The report urges citizens and healthcare workers not yet vaccinated against COVID-19 or seasonal flu to do so as soon as possible before next week's holidays.
The affected animals were a mule deer buck harvested north of Columbus and a male white-tailed deer west of Nye.
About half of the claims were related to COVID vaccine, but the vast majority of money paid for claims—$6.5 million—was for harms tied to the H1N1 flu vaccine.
In addition, the FDA has increased the case counts in 2 other multistate E coli outbreaks.
A man from the outbreak area recently died following hemorrhagic fever symptoms, and samples have been sent to Kinshasa for testing.
In patients with Enterobacterales BSIs, early phenotype-desirable antimicrobial therapy was associated with better 30-day outcomes than delayed therapy.
Two African countries reported more circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 cases.
The infected bull was transported to Idaho in March 2023 from Alberta, and the Canadian ranch later confirmed a CWD-positive elk.
Belgium reported the case on December 18 in an adult traveler returning from an African country where the clade 1b virus circulates.
The case-fatality rate was about 23%, which is at the low end of the 24% to 88% range.
The WHO says it is monitoring some JN.1-related variants, still in low proportions, that might have more immune escape than XEC.
In more than 8,000 UK pneumonia patients, researchers found no evidence adjunctive macrolides lowered 30-day mortality or shortened time to hospital discharge.
The multivalent toxoid vaccine candidate from LimmaTech Biologics AG is designed to prevent skin and soft-tissue infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus.
Among community-dwelling older adults in Ontario, longer outpatient antibiotic courses were not associated with a greater risk of harm or than shorter courses.
Further tests found seasonal flu, rhinovirus, COVID, and other common respiratory viruses, alongside malaria and complications from malnutrition.
The disease was confirmed in a dead cow elk near Jackson, Wyoming, and a hunter-harvested deer in Alabama's Colbert County.
A review and meta-analysis of data from 28 countries found significant increases in resistance to clarithromycin, metronidazole, and amoxicillin from 2020 to 2023.
Approximately 40% of participants did not seroconvert or achieve a conservative neutralization threshold post-vaccination.
