Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Plan to require ASPs in ambulatory settings raises questions
• CDC: Most US adults have never been tested for HIV
• Researchers push for revision of IDSA diabetic foot infection classification
• Sanofi Pasteur says flu vaccine shipments to be delayed 1 month
• Risk for neural tube defects from dolutegravir lower than previously thought
• Should ASP leaders in ambulatory care settings receive extra pay?
• ‘Long past time’: WHO takes crucial step in declaring Ebola an emergency Lawrence O. Gostin, JD
• Herpes zoster: A potentially dangerous but preventable disease Donald Kaye, MD, MACP; Kenneth M. Kaye, MD, FACP; Muneerah Aleissa, PharmD; Brandon Dionne, PharmD, BCPS-AQ ID, BCIDP, AAHIVP
• FDA approves Recarbrio for complicated UTIs, intra-abdominal infections
• Advocacy in ID: The ‘critical’ role of physicians
• ACIP recommends ‘shared clinical decision-making’ for HPV, pneumococcal vaccines
• Hooked on ID with Gitanjali Pai MD, AAHIVS Gitanjali Pai, MD
• 82 cases of rat lungworm disease reported in Hawaii over 10 years
• Age not associated with hospital-onset CDI in colonized patients, study suggests
• CDC lab tests show Ebola treatments being used in outbreak are effective
• Educational program improves cleaning in acute-care facilities
• Fluoroquinolone resistance has relatively large impact on mortality
• Globally, 3 in every 1,000 people carry latent MDR-TB
• HBV serostatus identification is critical before hemodialysis
• HEV in pigs a ‘permanent zoonotic disease risk’
• HIV persists in CSF of patients on ART; linked to cognitive impairment
• Hospital surveillance data show shift in focus from MRSA to gram-negative bacteria
• Less than 30% of high-risk adults protected from HBV
• Lyme disease often misdiagnosed, resulting in unnecessary antibiotics
• Melioidosis is a major neglected tropical disease, researchers argue
• New skin test for bovine TB outperforms standard assay
• Nigeria monkeypox outbreak shows evidence of human-to-human transmission
• Obesity increases risk for developing SSIs
• Pandemic MDR E. coli strains persist in guts of healthy adult women
• Pharmacist-driven HCV treatment model yields high SVR rates
• Pitt bacteremia score predicts mortality in nonbacteremia CRE infections
• Policies in California improve vaccine uptake among kindergarteners
• Proactive MRSA surveillance with whole genome sequencing reduces cases, costs
• Procalcitonin levels should not guide CAP diagnosis, treatment
• Prompt NAI treatment reduced hospital stays by 19% during last flu pandemic
• Providing DAAs to PWID in primary care increases uptake, cure rates
• Same-day PrEP initiation a favorable option for patients at risk for HIV
• Texas man contracts rare eye infection caused by trematode
• Vancomycin dosing should be guided by AUC, study suggests
• Vomiting linked to airborne norovirus, hospital outbreaks
• Bacteria in probiotic beverages harbor antibiotic resistance genes
• CBD demonstrates activity against gram-positive bacteria
• Ocean swimming changes skin microbiome, could raise infection risk
• RADAR: ‘Tremendous amount’ of M. genitalium detected rectally with off-label testing
• Researchers investigate nonbite transmission of P. multocida
• Resistant bacterial strain persists in California hospital for over 3 years
• S. aureus prevalent on cell phones of nursing students
• Students find phages in their kitchen sponges
• Students get their hands dirty searching soil for new antibiotics
• Hepatitis B vaccine shortage: Unknown impact on future disease Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP