Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• One Health approach essential to controlling public health threats
• American Samoa experience may guide Zika testing in asymptomatic pregnant women
• ASCO issues global guidance on HPV vaccination to prevent cervical cancer
• Blacks perceive greater risk with influenza vaccine than whites
• Committee outlines path to eliminate viral hepatitis in the US by 2030
• On the brink of eradication: Polio over 30 years
• On the brink of eradication: Polio over 30 years
• READI Act offers incentives for new antibiotics, rapid diagnostics
• Researchers find mcr-1 in pet food in China
• Review confirms DAAs effective
• TB cases hit record low in US, but progress toward elimination lags
• Vaccine breakthrough prevented 10.3 million deaths
• WHO releases list of ‘priority pathogens’ in urgent need of new antibiotics
• Zika concerns prompt CDC warning about semen donations in Florida
• HPV vaccination in older individuals: A mess, perhaps mitigated by herd protection Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD, FACP, FRACP, FASCO
• Dengue: The beginning of the end?
• Antibiotics increase risk for hearing loss in patients with cystic fibrosis
• B. cepacia outbreak yields pointers for multi-institutional response
• Cardiovascular events significantly increase mortality in pneumonia
• Computer model predicts West Nile virus outbreaks
• E-consults frequently change physicians’ plans for treatment
• High-dose influenza vaccine more effective at preventing deaths among seniors in 2012-2013
• Higher bacterial burden increases E. coli transmission odds
• Hospital floors a greater source of infection than previously thought
• Influenza treatment during pregnancy does not endanger newborns, study confirms
• Prevalence of drug-resistant HIV reaches ‘alarming levels’ in Aruba
• Protein signature in mucus reveals infection status
• Rapid active sampling quick, effective in measuring norovirus in rural Guatemala
• Researchers track spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria in hospital sinks
• Study highlights burden of community-onset antimicrobial resistance in India
• Three-dose penicillin regimen not superior to single dose for syphilis in patients with HIV
• Transplant recipients with nocardiosis face 10-fold greater mortality
• Urban ED HCV screening programs should be expanded, researchers say
• Vaccination reduces severe herpes zoster complications in seniors
• A. baumannii colonization upon ICU admission increases likelihood of infection, mortality
• Antimicrobial stewardship program sees results in Israeli hospitals
• Researchers explore link between substance abuse and HIV
• Standard treatment emerges for N. fowleri
• What caused the West African Ebola outbreak?