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April 10, 2024Posted: April 10, 2024Read MoreThe CDC is alerting doctors to be on the lookout for certain types of rare, serious meningococcal infections that are on the rise in the United States.
This alarming increase is caused by Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, which has caused 1 in 6 people to die, a higher fatality rate than they typically see with meningococcal infections.
These cases are also unusual because they are striking middle-aged adults. Typically, meningitis infections strike babies or adolescents and young adults.
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April 03, 2024Posted: April 03, 2024Read MoreThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released its 2022 Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Surveillance Report providing U.S. data for nationally notifiable STI’s for federally funded control programs.
According to the report, syphilis cases (all stages and congenital syphilis) increased 80 percent from 2018-2022. More than 3,700 congenital syphilis cases were reported in 2022, reflecting an alarming 937 percent increase in the past decade, said Laura Bachmann, MD, MPH, Acting Director, CDC’s Division of STD Prevention in her announcement letter included in the report.
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March 14, 2024Posted: March 14, 2024Read MoreAs hundreds of thousands of patients come face-to-face with health issues related to antibiotic-resistant infections, the scientific community must address the significance of antimicrobial stewardship and its core principles.
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February 28, 2024Posted: February 28, 2024Read MorePostoperative infections are one of the most common complications in general surgery, and rates have been reduced with the routine administration of perioperative antibiotics (1). GG is reportedly more common after penetrating trauma or major surgery and is rarely reported without obvious predisposing events, such as edema, fever, malaise, and pain. Previous documents have only reported gas gangrene once after an open rectal surgery or laparoscopic cholecystectomy (2, 3). However, the authors of the case documented in the Frontiers in Surgery report say this is the first case of GG of the pelvic wall, after laparoscopic resection for rectal cancer, occurred.
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February 05, 2024Posted: February 05, 2024Read MoreThe purpose of the Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion susceptibility test is to determine the in vitro susceptibility of bacteria and fungi to various antimicrobial compounds. It is a standardized test that can be performed in a laboratory setting and is a valuable tool for both clinicians and microbiologists.
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January 12, 2024Posted: January 12, 2024Categories: Clinical, Industry Insights, Public Health Alerts, Health & Wellness, Product SpotlightsWe began to see an increase in the number of strep throat cases in beginning in late spring of 2023, not only in pediatric patients, but adults as well. Now in December, cases of Group A Streptococcus (GAS) continue to rise. During one newscast out of the Midwest, some physicians say 2023 was the worst year for strep throat that they can remember.Read More -
January 10, 2024Posted: January 10, 2024Read More...Hepatitis C is the primary cause of liver cancer and the need for liver transplants among patients infected with the virus.
Infection is often the result of coming into contact with contaminated blood, usually through injected drug use, but also
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January 04, 2024Posted: January 04, 2024Read MoreCarbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales or CRE, are a group of gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to “last line” antibiotics and are very challenging to treat. These microorganisms may confer their resistance via the production of a carbapenemase, an enzyme that inactivates carbapenem antibiotics.
The five most common types of carbapenemases are KPC, OXA-48-like, VIM, IMP, and NDM.
Knowing the type of carbapenemase is crucial for therapeutic purposes, infection control, and for preventing outbreaks.
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September 20, 2023Posted: September 20, 2023Read More...Hydrogen peroxide vapors utilized in patient hospital rooms may be a significant way to control this deadly disease.
The 2019 edition of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Antibiotic Resistance Threats Report estimated that Clostridioides difficile is responsible f
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September 08, 2023Posted: September 08, 2023Read More...May 11th of 2023 marked the end of both the public health emergency and the national state of emergency for the COVID-19 pandemic. However, health professionals are concerned with the rise of the EG.5 variant, an up-and-coming SARS-CoV-2 strain that is potentially more transmissible than any of the current circulating strains in the United States. (1) EG.5 is a descendant of the Omicron lineage XBB.1.9.5
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April 06, 2023Posted: April 06, 2023Read More...How could anything so cute be so dangerous?
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the top ten global public health threats facing humanity.¹
Ironically, humans are to blame; yet, in recent years, the increase of AMR strains in animals, specifically companion animals,
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January 20, 2023Posted: January 20, 2023Read More...Clostridioides difficile (formerly named Clostridium difficile, and widely known as C. diff) is a Gram-positive, spore-forming, obligate anaerobe that causes life-threatening diarrhea in people who take antibiotics, are hospitalized or in nursing homes, and people with weakened immune systems.(1)
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November 21, 2022Posted: November 21, 2022Read More...Two years ago, there was virtually no flu season due to COVID-19 isolation.
In addition, experts predict another COVID-19 surge this fall and winter.(2) According to the World Health Organization’s early October global situation report, more than 1.5 million COVID-19 diagnosis were reported across Europe during the week ending Oct. 2, a
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September 30, 2022Posted: September 30, 2022Categories: Clinical, Industry Insights, Public Health Alerts, Health & Wellness, Product SpotlightsRead MoreEmerging hand in hand with the Pandemic...
A new 2022 special report from the CDC is sounding the alarm that antimicrobial resistance to some of the most concerning bacteria and fungi significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic (1) One such highly drug resistant yeast noted in the report is Candida...
