Infection News

In a Healio video exclusive, Edward V. Loftus Jr., MD, warned that, despite being the smallest virus capable of causing human disease, hepatitis delta virus holds an outsized global impact as the most severe form of viral hepatitis.

Diagnostic stewardship helped reduce the number of inappropriate tests ordered for Clostridioides difficile by 20 percentage points in a Florida health care system, according to a study.

Another person has died in a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to sliced deli meats, bringing the death toll to three, according to the CDC.

Routine childhood vaccinations prevented more than 1.1 million deaths among children born during the past 30 years in the United States, CDC researchers found.

A new study provides the first evidence that illicit fentanyl use may play a role in hepatitis C transmission among injection drug users, according to researchers.

A triple therapy of vonoprazan, amoxicillin and bismuth potassium citrate achieved an eradication rate of just over 90%, similar to that of the standard quadruple therapy, in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection, according to data.

Every year on July 28th, clinicians and researchers recognize World Hepatitis Day to bring awareness to one of the world’s deadliest but preventable viruses and continue efforts to meet the global goal of eliminating viral hepatitis by 2030

Tenofovir alafenamide was safe and maintained virological response in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection and renal or hepatic impairment who switched from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate or other antivirals, according to data.

The risk for developing long COVID declined over the course of the pandemic but has remained significant, researchers reported.

A 2023 outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 involving at least 13 children in Utah was linked to untreated municipal irrigation water, according to a CDC investigation published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.