Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Dwindling fellowship applicants cast doubt over next generation of ID care
• From hospital medicine to infectious diseases Jon G. Persichino, DO
• ABIM will not require practice assessment for MOC through 2018
• African straw-colored fruit bat may not be responsible for Ebola outbreak
• AMA, ACP file comments on Stage 3 meaningful use
• Early administration of antibiotics prevents severe lower respiratory infection in children
• Expanding rural, suburban syringe programs could greatly reduce HIV, HCV
• Experts: Promotion of HPV vaccination must focus on cancer prevention
• Increased congressional funding supports antibiotic resistance effort
• Mandatory applicant screening may reduce HCV, costs in the military
• Minnesota health department detects new norovirus strain
• Novel tool identifies, colors mosquitoes carrying infectious diseases
• WHO agrees to review Merck’s Ebola vaccine for emergency use
• WHO: Young children account for 30% of foodborne illness-related deaths
• Would increasing compensation have an effect on ID recruitment?
• Improved patient outcomes and collaborative care through infection prevention and control Louise-Marie Dembry, MD, MS, MBA, FSHEA
• Rethinking treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections Donald Kaye, MD, MACP; Larry M. Bush, MD, FACP
• FDA: Antibiotic sales increase for food-producing livestock
• Multistate outbreaks offer key lessons to improve food safety
• Antibiotic prescribing influences patient satisfaction
• MDROs found in ICU workstations
• Bacterial vaginosis home screening does not influence gonorrhea, chlamydia
• Cresemba comparable to voriconazole for invasive mold disease
• Drug-drug interactions common with DAA regimens for HCV
• HCV increases risk for Parkinson's disease
• HCV transmission at hemodialysis clinic suggests poor infection control
• High HCV burden in Canadian prisons requires increased attention
• Hospital surveillance program reduces adverse sepsis outcomes
• Host response proteins, fungal antigens identify invasive Aspergillus in leukemia patients
• IDSA updates candidiasis clinical practice guidelines
• Increasing tax on alcohol appears to lower rates of gonorrhea
• Influenza vaccination rates vary widely in patients with heart failure
• Influenza vaccine effectively treats obese children
• Less than half of non-VA hospitals require flu vaccination in HCWs
• More data needed on long-term outcomes of FMT for C. difficile
• More research shows diabetes increases risk for SSI
• Multidisciplinary approach may prevent pressure ulcer infection from gunshot-spinal cord injury
• Oral administration of L. salivarius PS2 prevents infectious mastitis
• Phylogenetic tracking benefits C. difficile surveillance in hospitals
• ‘Significant gaps’ found in MRSA BSI reporting from hemodialysis facilities
• Single, high-dose Dalvance infusion noninferior to two-dose regimen
• Single strategy not enough to curb HIV risk in young MSM
• Two strategies emerge to eradicate polio from Nigeria
• Universal decolonization decreases candiduria, bacteriuria in ICU
• US Ebola treatment centers offer limited capacity
• Video game cameras accurately monitor hand hygiene, PPE adherence
• Xpert Ebola assay reduces time to EVD diagnosis
• Feelings of vengeance influence sexual behaviors among MSM with HIV
• Health ads on social media reach Rhode Island MSM
• HIV diagnoses frequent among MSM attending STD clinics
• HIV progress lags for gay, bisexual minorities, Southern states
• Majority of pediatric patients with IBD nonimmune to HBV after vaccination
• MSM who exchange sex for money often unaware of HIV infection
• Novel flu vaccine strategy improves protection for oncology patients
• PCPs frequently unaware of PrEP
• PrEP use may inform sexual decision-making among MSM
• Prompt linkage to care reduces HIV progression, time to viral suppression
• Rapivab: An IV neuraminidase inhibitor Leah Molloy, PharmD