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Global surveillance as an antimicrobial stewardship strategy: Updates from ASM Microbe 2018
Antimicrobial stewardship efforts and infection control and prevention begin with surveillance. ASM Microbe 2018 featured updates from several major, global surveillance studies. As reported by SENTRY, the Canadian Ward Surveillance (CANWARD) study and Program to Assess Ceftolozane-Tazobactam Susceptibility (PACTS), the gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii and Klebsiella pneumoniae were among the most common pathogens collected at medical centers worldwide, across eight Canadian provinces, in United States ICUs, and among hematology-oncology patients in Europe.
Q&A: Bacteria in dog and cat saliva can make humans sick
Dogs are man’s best friend, but recent reports served as a reminder that they carry bacteria in their saliva that can cause disease, and even death, in humans.
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FDA pushes for better antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary medicine
To combat the risk of antimicrobial resistance in animals, the FDA announced that it is pushing for better antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary settings.
Chinese vaccine manufacturer blunder could increase vaccine hesitancy in US
Changchun Changshen Life Sciences Ltd., a vaccine developer located in Changchun, China, has distributed approximately 250,000 substandard vaccines intended for the prevention of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis in children, according to the Chinese state media outlet CGTN .
Yellow fever: Still a menace for humans and other primates
Yellow fever virus and its mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, arrived in Barbados in 1647 from forests in Africa — where it still is endemic — via the slave trade and quickly spread to other Caribbean islands. Twenty-five major outbreaks subsequently occurred in the United States. Probably the most famous of these outbreaks happened in Philadelphia, which at that time was the U.S. capital. The first outbreak occurred there in 1793 and left 5,000 people dead out of a population of 50,000. Other significant outbreaks in the U.S. occurred over a nearly 100-year period: Savannah, Georgia, in 1820; New Orleans in 1853; Norfolk, Virginia, in 1855; Texas and Louisiana in 1867; and the Lower Mississippi Valley in 1878. That is ancient U.S. history, so why worry now?
Rat lungworm parasite linked to consuming raw centipedes
The Angiostrongylus cantonensis parasite, otherwise known as rat lungworm, was found in an adult mother and son in China who consumed raw centipedes, according to study results recently published in The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Azithromycin inferior to doxycycline for uncomplicated murine typhus
Recent findings from a randomized controlled trial in Laos showed azithromycin is inferior to doxycycline as oral therapy for uncomplicated murine typhus.
Researchers identify risk factors for avian influenza at live bird markets
At live bird markets, the risk for avian influenza is higher among workers at large retail markets, women workers, and workers who clean, slaughter, defeather and eviscerate poultry, according to results of a recent meta-analysis.
Researchers use tiny transmitters to track Chagas disease-spreading ‘kissing bugs’
A team of Texas A&M researchers fastened miniature radio transmitters to the backs of elusive triatomine bugs to track and study their movements in an effort to better understand their habits and it is hoped one day reduce the risk for Chagas disease.
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