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Over the weekend, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office reported a suspected Ebola case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) North Kivu province, and today an official from the country's national lab confirmed the finding, according to media reports.
Nonhospitalized, high-risk, vaccinated COVID-19 patients who received nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (NMV-r, or Paxlovid) saw a 45% drop in their relative risk of emergency department (ED) visits, hospitalization, and death by 30 days, suggests a study published late last week in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Rates of "brain fog," dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures remained elevated.
Multiple surface sites tested positive for virus DNA in the home of 2 patients.
A study of hospitalized pneumonia patients in Denmark found similar outcomes between short-course and prolonged-course antibiotic therapy, Danish researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
A study of California public transportation workers published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) shows public transportation workers have higher rates of both COVID-19 incidence and mortality compared to other industries.
Our weekly wrap-up of antimicrobial stewardship & antimicrobial resistance scans
Nations around the world have seen a spate of shortages of drugs to treat conditions such as HIV and diabetes.
A secondary analysis finds that metformin may hold some promise.
A related study in South Korea shows waning vaccine effectiveness in teens.
In the US, officials are making more vaccine doses available.
A new study offers a complex picture of COVID-19 incidence among the US homeless population and illustrates the difficulty of tracking disease spread among this population. The study was published today in JAMA Network Open and found the incidence of the disease lower than among the general population.
After COVID-19 issues, the CDC has a plan to prioritize public health and outbreak response.
The lack of awareness "likely had a role in rapid transmission," the authors note.
Also, a review of clinical guidelines on monkeypox finds a dearth of good information.
Using a test-to-stay (TTS) strategy in K-12 schools during the winter of 2021-22 resulted in substantial reduction in missed school days, according to a study yesterday in Pediatrics.
Prescribing data from a children's hospital network in Chicago showed considerable variation in antibiotic durations for children treated for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and urinary tract infections (UTIs) in ambulatory settings, with the variability largely unrelated to the severity of symptoms, researchers reported late last week in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.
New data suggest that vaccination of only known contacts may not by itself prevent transmission.
Hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients before and after SARS-CoV-2 vaccine availability had significantly higher odds of venous—but not arterial—thromboembolism than those hospitalized for influenza before the pandemic, finds a study published today in JAMA.
Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) and Accelerate Diagnostics yesterday announced a commercial collaboration agreement to bring rapid identification and antibiotic susceptibility tests to more clinicians and patients worldwide.
