Infectious Disease News Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.

Table of Contents

• Increased exposure may be cause of rising HPV-related cancer rate
• Lyme disease: Staying on track Margaret C. Fisher, MD
• Compounded methylprednisolone acetate injection under FDA investigation
• Depression, antidepressants increased risk for C. difficile
• Reasons unknown for recent increase in vancomycin use
• Remembering an Infectious Disease News Editorial Board member: Alan Tice, MD
• Report outlines ‘vast variations’ in hospital costs
• Report outlines ‘vast variations’ in hospital costs
• The most common STI you have never heard of
• Unknown toxin may be cause of pertussis cough
• WHO: Yellow fever vaccination 'booster' unnecessary
• Michigan reported half of spinal, paraspinal infection cases during meningitis outbreak
• Only half of those with HCV complete confirmatory RNA test
• New guidelines offer help in diagnoses,
 treatment of C. difficile infection Casey Owens, MD; Christina Surawicz, MD
• Back to the future: The story of colistin Donald Kaye, MD, MACP; Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH
• Surveillance tool aims to detect, monitor public vaccine concerns
• Bacterial coinfections often found in viral-associated hospitalizations
• CA-MRSA colonization more likely in patients with HIV
• CD4 decline linked to cancer, CVD in virally suppressed patients
• Condom use reduced HPV risk among high-risk men
• Food preparation errors to blame in many foodborne illnesses
• HCC risk persists 8 years after HCV eradication
• High CMV levels associated with HIV shedding
• Maternal influenza increased bipolar disorder risk in offspring
• Population immunity to H7N9 very low
• Progress reported in reducing central line-associated infections
• Research unlocking clues to bacterial vaginosis
• Resistant salmonella strain potential risk to public health
• TB programs affected by isoniazid shortage
• Travel to tropical countries aids in spread of influenza
• Neurologic complications associated with influenza in hospitalized children
• Similar efficacy seen in three treatments for H. pylori
• SVR associated with better quality of life in chronic HCV
• Timing is critical for exchange transfusion as treatment of pertussis
• Pharmacologic advances, opportunities in 
C. difficile infection management Leah Steinke, PharmD