Caitlyn Stulpin

Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis for adolescents and adults.

VIENNA — Schistosoma haematobium can trigger cancer-related gene activity in the cervix, increasing the risk for cervical cancer, according to data presented at the ESCMID Global meeting.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal with regularly.

The Trump administration has shut down a CDC laboratory dedicated to tracking STIs, which experts said could weaken the country’s ability to keep an eye on drug-resistant infections, including gonorrhea.

A colleague who spends summers in New Mexico, where there is an ongoing measles outbreak, had a question for Healio’s infectious diseases news team: If she was vaccinated against measles in the 1960s, does she need another shot?

The mass layoffs initiated by HHS this week, including in the upper echelons of the NIH, have sowed chaos and will make Americans less safe from disease, experts warned.

Clostridioides difficile isolates with reduced fidaxomicin susceptibility may emerge during treatment and could spread to other patients, researchers found.

The FDA approved gepotidacin for the treatment of uncomplicated UTIs in women and adolescent girls aged 12 years or older, GSK announced.

President Donald J. Trump has nominated Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next director of the CDC.

This influenza season has been particularly severe in the United States, with CDC data showing a rate of hospitalization related to flu that is higher than any other season in the past 14 years.