ASCLS eNewsBytes

• WHO hands over emergency and infection prevention control equipment to strengthen health systems in Kigoma Region July 9, 2024
  In the Kigoma Region of Tanzania, the World Health Organization with funding from the UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund Office has donated equipment and supplies to strengthen infection prevention control and WASH in health facilities, and preparedness and response against epidemics.
• Treatment with a mixture of antimicrobial peptides found to impede antibiotic resistance July 9, 2024
  A common infection-causing bacteria was much less likely to evolve antibiotic resistance when treated with a mixture of antimicrobial peptides rather than a single peptide, making these mixtures a viable strategy for developing new antibiotic treatments.
• Scientists wary of bird flu pandemic 'unfolding in slow motion' July 9, 2024
  Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts.
• Understanding how bacteria share antibiotic resistance July 9, 2024
  The Umea researchers have studied Enterococcus faecalis, which is a bacterium that often causes hospital infections, where in many cases treatment with antibiotics no longer bites because the bacteria have developed resistance.
• Reducing inappropriate C. difficile testing with a diagnostic stewardship approach July 9, 2024
  A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control describes the outcome of a new approach to testing for Clostridioides difficile guided by the principles of diagnostic stewardship.