Infection News

Patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease had a significantly greater risk for severe infection requiring hospitalization vs. the general population, with an absolute risk difference of more than 17%at 20 years after diagnosis.

The addition of peripartum antiviral prophylaxis to reduce neonatal hepatitis B virus infection could have “substantial extra health benefits,” although decreased diagnostic costs are needed to make this strategy cost-effective.

Healio will present its sixth annual Disruptive Innovators Awards for gastroenterology and hepatology this fall.

Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a period of waning cases in Haiti compared with PCR testing, according to the results of a small study.

CHICAGO — In a Healio video exclusive, Paul Feuerstadt, MD, FACG, AGAF, discusses data showing consistent safety and efficacy of Rebyota when administered via colonoscopy for prevention of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection.

CHICAGO — In a Healio video exclusive, Sarah Khan, MD, explains that patients with advanced liver disease and concurrent fungal infection had worse acute-on-chronic liver failure and higher mortality than those with bacterial infection.

Roughly 40% of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States are caused by a sick or infectious food worker despite most food establishments having policies against employees coming to work when ill, data show.

An intervention requiring that infectious diseases approve testing for Clostridioides difficile infection increased the appropriateness of testing for hospital-onset C. difficile and lowered the positive testing rate by more than 50%.

In a Healio video exclusive, Jeff Baxter, president and CEO of VBI Vaccines, discusses the current burden of hepatitis B virus infection and shares updates on prevention and treatment strategies for Hepatitis Awareness Month.

In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you Healio’s top headlines from DDW 2023.