Coffee rust seen in Moloka’i and Kaua’i
The Hawaiian state agriculture board has now confirmed the presence of Coffee Rust on two additional islands, Moloka’i and Kaua’i. Previous sightings on Maui and Oahu have generated a swift [...]
Dangerous Fungus Resistant to All Drugs and First Found in Asia Is Identified in the US for the First Time
The CDC has issued a bulletin noting patients infected with drug-resistant Candida auris in two US cities. First identified in Asia in 2009, this is the first US ‘patient to patient’ spread of a [...]
Global travelers pick up numerous genes that promote microbial resistance
Dutch researchers worked with microbiologists from Washington Univ. in St. Louis to prove that antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and their antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes can spread by hiding [...]
Global travelers pick up numerous genes that promote microbial resistance
Danish researchers worked with microbiologists from Washington University in St. Louis to prove that antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and their antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes can spread by [...]
Medical Students Call for Congressional Action on AMR
A group of more than 150 medical students from 22 states today called on Congress to make the Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Upsurging Resistance (PASTEUR) Acta priority. In a [...]
COVID-19- Reason for Coronavirus deaths revealed
The authors of a new study found when compared with the overall mortality rates in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, the mortality rates in this retrospective examination of 17,534 patient records [...]
COVID’s rise is elevating another concern
We must keep in mind that while this pandemic caused by a respiratory virus (SARS-CoV-2) is top of mind, superbugs (multidrug resistant bacteria- MDR) still kill ~35,000 people in the US each [...]
Health Experts Establish Targets to Improve Hospital Antibiotic Prescribing
National data shows inappropriate prescribing, opportunities for improvements. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections [...]
U.S. Healthcare Costs of Six Resistant Pathogens
Six types of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria create $4.6 billion annually in healthcare costs, according to estimates from the CDC and the University of Utah. This is one of [...]
CDC Warns of Drug-Resistant Typhoid Fever Outbreak
A new multi-drug resistant Salmonella typhi bacteria has been found in 71 patients here in the US. “This marks the first time cases of ceftriaxone-resistant Typhi infections have been [...]
