Antabio announced that it raised $25 million in financing to complete phase 2 research on its antibiotic/beta-lactamase inhibitor combination.
Black patients were more likely to be diagnosed later and wait longer to receive appropriate antibiotics.
The median time to symptom resolution was 6 days, and 12% of participants still had symptoms at day 10.
In the COVID-19 pandemic years 2020 to 2021, IPD incidence dipped to a low of 1.6 per 100,000 children.
Flu levels continue to climb in North America, as well as other locations including China's northern provinces.
No long COVID was reported among vaccinated athletes.
Current vaccines neutralize current variants, but there are limited data on the impact against JN.1, a steadily rising part of the BA.2.86 family.
Researchers say new cleaning and disinfection methods that can better eradicate C difficile spores could help reduce the risk of healthcare transmission.
The study authors say the findings add to evidence from prior studies, which have found limited improved clinical outcomes with combination therapy.
China recently reported four H9N2 avian influenza detections, all in children. The cases were noted yesterday in a report in Chinese from Taiwan's health ministry that was translated and posted by FluTrackers, an infectious disease news message board.
The detections follow an outbreak in seabirds in the same area and are the first on the West Coast.
The findings came from the European Primary Oral Insulin Trial.
A letter to Senate leadership calls for changes to the Animal Drug User Fee Act.
Of the 399 cases with information on probable transmission routes, 95.2% identified sexual contact, 3.3% cited nonsexual contact, and 0.5% reported healthcare-associated spread.
The patients are from a part of India where cases were reported in 2018 and 2021.
The agreement is a major step in efforts to bridge global gaps in access to critically needed, innovative antibiotics.
A quality improvement initiative at a Denver health system was associated with significantly reduced antibiotic prescribing for pediatric conjunctivitis.
The 5-year grant was awarded to the Icahn School of Medicine.
Two people, relatives of one of the deceased patients, are hospitalized with Nipah infections.
The infected sea elephants were found in an outbreak area where dead sea lions were also found.
Among survey respondents, 64% reported very good to excellent hospital support for their infection prevention and control programs, but 49% said they were burned out.
Among 5 Nipah cases, 2 have proved fatal, and officials are following up with 77 high-risk contacts.
Wastewater testing rose in prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Other services," manufacturing, transportation, and retail trade also had higher death rates.
The team will collect more than 20,000 samples from wildlife such as eastern chipmunks, gray squirrels, and raccoons.
