The annual reports describe resistance patterns in samples from humans, retail meat, and animals at slaughter.
The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Health (MOH) announced a new case of MERS-CoV today.
The patient is a 72-year-old man from Tabuk, a city in northwestern Saudi Arabia near the Jordanian border. He presented with symptoms of MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) infection and is in stable condition. The man had direct contact with camels, a known risk factor for contracting MERS.
Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) today reported a new case of H7N9 avian flu in Liaoning province, further evidence that the virus has not disappeared during the summer.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said 39 cases of Campylobacter infections have been identified in people who had recently come into contact with puppies at Petland pet stores.
A detailed look at variant influenza cases from seven agricultural fairs in Michigan and Ohio in 2016 found that of 18 variant H3N2 (H3N2v) cases in humans, 16 were infected with a reassortant that contains the hemagglutinin gene from the 2010-2011 seasonal H3N2 strain in humans, a strain increasingly seen in US swine herds.
A new study in Emerging Infectious Diseases describes the physical and financial burden of a nosocomial outbreak caused by New Delhi metallo (NDM) beta-lactamase–containing Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Saudi Arabia today reported three more MERS-CoV illnesses linked to ongoing hospital-related outbreaks in Riyadh, according to a statement from the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
New lab tests make it difficult to compare year-to-year FoodNet data, the CDC says.
Report finds extremely high multidrug resistance in a Salmonella strain that can sicken humans.
Multidrug-resistant C jejuni rose from 19.1% in 2008 to 43.4% in 2014-2015.