The proportion of candidemia in patients with injection drug use more than doubled.
Health officials in New York's Rockland County today declared the end of a 2018-2019 measles outbreak that sickened 312 people, a development that decreases the chance of the United States losing its measles elimination status on Oct 2.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday that the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)/World Health Organization (WHO) have designated the CDC's Center for Global Health as a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Biosafety and Biosecurity.
A study conducted in Dutch hospitals has found that an isolation strategy of contact precautions in a multiple-bed hospital room was non-inferior to a strategy of contact precautions in a single-bed room for preventing the spread of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae, Dutch researchers reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Taco Bell announced yesterday that it aims to reduce the amount of medically important antibiotics used in its US and Canadian beef supply chains by 25% by 2025.
Could climate change have played a role in the emergence of the multidrug-resistant fungus Candida auris?
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the approval of Recarbrio, a new three-drug antibacterial product developed by Merck, for treating patients with complicated urinary tract infections (cUTIs) and complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAIs) caused by gram-negative pathogens.
The number of confirmed and probable cases of the multidrug-resistant fungus Candida auris in the United States rose to 716 as of May 31, reflecting an increase of 32, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in its most recent case-count update.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Health (MOH) recently reported a new MERS-CoV case, which involves a 71-year-old woman from the capital city of Riyadh.
The woman's contact with camels isn't known, and authorities have classified her exposure to MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus) as primary, meaning she probably wasn't exposed to another sick patient, according to an update to the MOH's epidemiologic week 24 report.
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) yesterday issued a health alert about an increase in carbapenemase-producing carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CP-CRE) cases this year. After detecting 7 each year in 2017 and 2018, officials have already confirmed 12 CP-CRE infections so far this year.