More than one third of the 10,007 bacterial isolates collected from 13 West Bank hospitals were classified as multidrug-resistant.
The deaths are likely due to poor health-seeking behavior among patients who seek medical intervention too late.
In a new report, the WHO says financing and access strategies need to be implemented to ensure the demand for future TB vaccines doesn't outstrip supply.
The most common disease trajectories involved mental illnesses and neurologic, respiratory, and metabolic or digestive diseases.
The modeling study predicts the rate of drug-resistant BSIs will rise sharply in Europe over the next 5 years, driven primarily by an aging population.
The intravenous formulation of fosfomycin has a novel mechanism of action and no known cross-resistance to other antibiotic classes.
Those found in coastal South America, Southeast Asia, and equatorial Africa are more likely to carry pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2.
In lab experiments and chickens, peptides derived from a strain of probiotic bacteria inhibited Salmonella strains that commonly cause foodborne illness.
Elsewhere, 2 large poultry outbreaks were reported in Lagrange County, Indiana.
So far the site of exposure is unknown.
So far 11 people in 7 states have been sickened.
Findings from a phase 3 trial show Qdenga, Takeda's live-attenuated dengue vaccine, provided 61.2% vaccine efficacy against infection and 84.1% against hospitalization after 4.5 years.
The results are likely to be more relevant to patients in sub-Saharan Africa than to those in high-resource settings, the authors say.
Seven new illnesses and 2 additional deaths have been confirmed in the outbreak, which has grown to 27 cases and 6 deaths.
The bat harbored the BRZ batCoV virus, which the researchers say has likely been silently circulating in Latin America for some time.
The revamped open-access site tracks scientific progress toward the development of broadly protective coronavirus vaccines.
Prior to this year, there had only been 1 confirmed measles case in Utah since 2020.
Participants with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or recurrent major depressive disorder were at a 10% higher risk of persistent symptoms.
The trial was investigating whether selective decontamination of the digestive tract cut in-hospital deaths in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients compared with standard care.
Grant County, Washington, recently had 7 avian flu detections in wild birds.
Antiviral prescribing for influenza-positive kids at risk of severe illness in US emergency departments declined 53% compared with the prepandemic period.
In September cholera cases were down 27% from August.
Officials waited more than 3 months after 2 whooping cough deaths to issue a statewide health alert.
Among the findings was that Black patients in the US had methicillin-resistant S aureus (MRSA) rates that were 2 to 3 times higher than White patients.
The team will examine the role that the gut microbiome plays in making some people resistant to colonization by Salmonella Typhimurium, a leading cause of invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella disease.
