A paper today in Clinical Infectious Diseases calls for more engagement between antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs), dentists, and orthopedic surgeons to curb unnecessary dental antibiotic prophylaxis.
An international group of researchers, in a phase 3 trial, have demonstrated that ceftolozane-tazobactam—an antibiotic approved in 2014 for complicated urinary tract and intra-abdominal infections—is non-inferior to meropenem for serious cases of nosocomial (hospital-acquired) pneumonia, paving the way for a potential new tool for the disease.
Enhanced surveillance has identified five US cases of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid infections associated with travel to Pakistan, according to a report today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Insufficient clean water and poor sanitation raise the risk of acquiring XDR typhoid in Pakistan.
Scientists have identified the genetic basis for an XDR typhoid outbreak in Pakistan.
Health officials in Los Angeles County today announced the area's first sexually transmitted Zika case, which involves a male resident who traveled to Mexico and had Zika symptoms in early November and his female partner, who did not travel.
In the largest-ever genetic study of mosquitoes, researchers tracked the movement of insecticide resistance between different African regions and identified several rapidly evolving resistance genes that could be used to develop new tools for tracking resistance, monitoring insecticide use, and developing new control methods. The team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute reporting its findings yesterday in Nature.
The World Health Organization (WHO) advisory committee that reviewed the most recent influenza developments and recommended strains for the Southern Hemisphere's 2018 flu season also looked at the newest genetic findings with zoonotic influenza viruses and recommended three new candidate vaccine viruses (CVVs).
Veterinary officials in Burkina Faso and Turkey reported more highly pathogenic H5N1 avian flu outbreaks, as their counterparts in Taiwan reported that highly pathogenic H5N2 has struck 10 more locations, according to separate reports to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
Through a review of DNA data from listeriosis cases, federal health officials have identified two more patients who were affected by a Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Blue Bell Creameries products, increasing the case count to 10.
