Emerging Diseases News

Socioeconomic disparities among residential neighborhoods may be associated with the prevalence of five specific antimicrobial-resistant organisms, especially AmpC beta-lactamase producers and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with more than 50,000 lost electrophysiology procedures totaling more than $7 billion in revenue in 2020, researchers reported in HeartRhythm.

A first-in-human trial of a nasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate began enrolling adults aged 18 to 64 years who have received at least three prior doses of a COVID-19 messenger RNA vaccine, according to the NIH.

CHICAGO — Antioxidant therapies showed varying levels of effectiveness when used as a treatment for COVID-19, according to results of a recent systematic review and meta-analysis presented at NUTRITION.

A 15-day course of Paxlovid demonstrated no significant benefit for patients with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to data published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

A Florida hospital doubled the size of its infection prevention staff over a 4-year period and saw a substantial decrease in hospital-related infections, researchers reported at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual meeting.

Installation of a stethoscope disinfection device improved hand hygiene compliance among health care workers at an urgent care clinic and ED, researchers reported.

Patients with long COVID symptoms demonstrate elevated levels of several inflammatory molecules — findings that could have important implications in both rheumatology and the search for a potential treatment for long COVID.

A dairy farm worker in Colorado became the fourth person to test positive for avian influenza in the ongoing outbreak affecting dairy cows in the United States, the CDC announced Wednesday.

HHS announced that it will give Moderna around $176 million to accelerate the development of a messenger RNA-based pandemic influenza vaccine amid an ongoing outbreak of avian influenza.