Findings from a trio of recently published studies shed new light on the mobile colistin-resistance gene MCR in Latin America, including one spotlighting the first detections of MCR-1 in Escherichia coli in Uruguay. A second report is a research letter detailing the spread of the MCR-5 gene on Paraguay’s poultry farms. And the third is a review [...]
Summary Background Little is known about the compensatory profile in autism; that is, people with autism spectrum disorder who show few symptoms in their behavioural presentation, despite continuing to report autism-related cognitive difficulties or differences. Even less is known about the specific compensatory strategies that these individuals use to disguise autism at the behavioural surface, [...]
Canadian researchers are reacting with puzzlement to the news that a “policy breach” has caused the nation’s only high-containment disease laboratory to bar a prominent Chinese Canadian virologist, her biologist husband, and a number of students from the facility. On 5 July, officials at the National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, Canada, escorted Xiangguo Qiu, biologist Keding [...]
Last week the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)reported a spike of Salmonellaillnesses connected to backyard poultry, including two deaths, and a multidrug-resistant (MDR) Salmonella outbreak tied to pig ear dog treats has grown by 48 infections, to 93 total. Almost 500 cases tied to live poultry As of Jul 12, a total of [...]
A study today in the Annals of Internal Medicine hints that using antibiotics without medical supervision may be a common practice in the United States. In a review of surveys conducted among various US populations over the past two decades, researchers from Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere found that the prevalence of nonprescription antibiotic use ranged [...]
In a development likely to further roil the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC’s) already difficult battle against Ebola, the country’s health minister resigned today following the president’s decision over the weekend to put outbreak leadership in the hands of a government expert committee. In a statement released on Twitter on Jul 20, the DRC [...]
Measles Cases in 2019 From January 1 to July 18, 2019, 1,148** individual cases of measles have been confirmed in 30 states. This is an increase of 25 cases from the previous week. This is the greatest number of cases reported in the U.S. since 1992 and since measles was declared eliminated in 2000. CDC/NIP/Barbara [...]
Abstract Active screening for resistant multidrug strain carriers remains an important component of infection control policy in any healthcare setting indifferent of financial and logistical costs. The objective of our study was to determine the spectrum of bacterial colonization individually among intensive care unit patients. A retrospective observational study was performed in the Intensive Care [...]
Abstract Allergic and hypersensitivity reactions such as anaphylaxis and asthma exacerbations may occur during air travel. Although the exact incidence of in-flight asthma and allergic emergencies is not known, we have concerns that this subject has not received the attention it warrants. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, Wikimedia Commons Read more… The post In-flight [...]
Abstract Background Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the major public health problems in Ethiopia. Data on genetic diversity and resistance profile of circulating TB strains is critical for informing the national TB control program. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted on 213 smear positive pulmonary TB patients between 2015 and 2016. Sputum samples were cultured [...]
