The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this week that it's investigating a cluster of tuberculosis (TB) infections in patients who've recently undergone spinal surgery that used a single lot of a bone repair product.
US lawmakers today re-introduced a bill to reinvigorate the antibiotic development market.
Until COVID, TB was the world's top infectious cause of death, and the pandemic threatens to derail efforts to curtail it.
The results of a National Institutes of Health-funded phase 2 study indicate the new tuberculosis (TB) drugs delamanid and bedaquiline, when combined, have only a modest effect on the electrical activity of the heart, US, South African, and Peruvian researchers reported last week in the Lancet Infectious Diseases.
A 4-year-old boy living outside of Milan with no travel history is now the earliest confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case in Italy, a team based in Italy reported in a research letter to Emerging Infectious Diseases yesterday.
A study published late last week in the British Dental Journal suggests that restricted access to dental care in England during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a sharp rise in dental antibiotic prescribing.
Today CARB-X announced it is funding $3.94 million to Cellics Therapeutics, based in San Diego, to further its nanomedicine treatment for sepsis.
Tuberculosis notifications in the hard-hit countries of India, Indonesia, and the Philippines have fallen 25% to 30% because of pandemic-related disruptions.
A case report today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes three cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among workers at an Ohio food-processing facility.
Seven more Ebola cases and three more deaths have been confirmed over the past few days in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC's) Equateur province outbreak, raising the total to 41 cases, which includes 17 deaths.