US intensive care unit (ICU) beds increased a net 10% amid the COVID-19 pandemic, from April to July 2020, over 2019 baselines, according to a study today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
While one in four Washington, DC, child care facilities reported at least one COVID-19 case from July to December 2020, only 5.8% had COVID-19 facility-associated outbreaks, according to yesterday's Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. A facility-associated outbreak was defined as two or more lab-confirmed cases at a child care site within 14 days.
Antibiotic prescribing for young children in Israel sharply declined following implementation of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), Israeli researchers reported today in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
An investigation into a Listeria moncytogenes outbreak linked to a New Jersey company's queso fresco cheese has ended, with 14 cases reported in four states, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said May 14 in a final update.
The researchers estimate a 40% increase in the annual incidence of resistant Salmonella.
The results of a phase 2b clinical trial indicate 77% efficacy over 12 months of follow-up for a vaccine that targets malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum, according to a preprint study published this week in The Lancet.
A study of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals found that prospective audit and feedback (PAF) and prior-approval strategies focused on fluoroquinolone use were associated with lower fluoroquinolone prescribing rates, US researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.
Eight people have been hospitalized amid a 19-person Salmonella outbreak linked to wild songbirds in eight states, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigation notice released yesterday.
CARB-X announced today that it is awarding more than $10 million to GSK to develop vaccines to prevent serious infections caused by common bacterial pathogens that pose a significant health threat in the developing world.
An antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) intervention led by ambulatory care pharmacists was associated with improvements in guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing in a family medicine residency clinic, researchers reported today in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.