Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Antibiotic overuse: A multidisciplinary concern
• BCG vaccine demonstrates effectiveness after 40 years
• CDC, ACP ask physicians to curb antibiotic prescribing for common respiratory infections
• Number, severity of acute gastroenteritis outbreaks on cruise ships declining
• Older men more likely to purchase sex, less likely to use condoms
• Pet infects teenager with rare rat-bite fever
• ‘Pox parties’ still pose risk for severe chickenpox complications
• Prevention strategy focuses on HIV epidemic in Indiana
• Senate report pins ERCP scope-related ‘superbug’ outbreaks on FDA, manufacturers, hospitals
• TAF safe, effective against HBV
• Trials underway to evaluate solithromycin for gonorrhea, NASH
• The exciting future of fecal microbiota transplant Ari Grinspan, MD
• Fine-tuning vs. destroying guidelines Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA accepts Merck’s biologics license application for bezlotoxumab
• FDA approves Zepatier for HCV genotypes 1, 4
• FDA issues safety alert for antifungal medication dosages, approves label revisions
• Americas battle Zika virus
• Acute flaccid myelitis of unknown etiology linked to enterovirus D68
• Analysis shows mismatch of public funding for antibiotic resistance research
• Ancient H. pylori offers insight into history of early bacteria, European settlers
• ART uptake increases among pregnant Chinese women
• Azithromycin safe, effective treatment for chlamydia
• Children at highest risk for contracting Salmonella from turtles
• Clinicians seek ways to use remaining 4vHPV vaccine
• Close contact between elephants, humans leads to multispecies TB outbreak
• Commercial PCR flu test reduces cost, waiting time for patients
• Comprehensive molecular testing improves pathogen detection for CAP
• Continuous HIV care critical to viral suppression, long-term outcomes
• Deforestation linked to emergence of zoonotic malaria
• Delayed prescription reduces antibiotic use, increases respiratory infection symptoms
• Dog, opossum cases suggest new reservoirs for vaccinia virus
• Expanded screening, treatment needed to eliminate HCV in US
• Fewer than one in five nurses fully comply with standard precautions
• Fluconazole use during pregnancy increases risk for spontaneous abortion
• Fluoroquinolones fail to treat patients with enteric fever in Nepal
• Gene expression helps monitor effect of early flu therapy
• Global burden of lethal B. pseudomallei ‘substantial, increasing’
• Hodgkin’s lymphoma therapy, survival disparities seen in patients with HIV
• Iatrogenic transmission fueled early spread of HIV pandemic in Africa
• ICU setting associated with higher CDI rate
• Improved care pathways increase number of UK patients treated for HCV
• Incentives improve rabies vaccination coverage
• Influenza A persists in environment during swine pen outbreaks
• Journalists mobilize to improve polio vaccination in northern Nigeria
• LAIV ineffective in 2013-2014 flu season
• Light-activated nanoparticles may serve as alternate therapy for infections
• Loperamide safe alternative for traveler’s diarrhea
• Lyme disease vectors spread to nearly half of continental US counties
• More than five drugs for MDR-TB improve treatment response
• Obesity, diabetes increase risk for group A Streptococcus
• Opt-out HIV screening choice increases testing rates
• Phase 3 DAA trials do not reflect wider HIV/HCV population
• Plague persisted in Europe for 3 centuries, DNA analysis shows
• Polio surveillance improves in Nigeria
• Preventive malaria treatment for Ebola contacts cost-effective
• Quiz predicts STI risk in young women
• Rapid diagnostic tests detect malaria in pregnant women when used early
• Statins lower risk for decompensation, death in HCV
• Simple blood test may reduce inappropriate antibiotics
• Supervised injection facilities may be cost-effective
• Targeted school closings may help prevent widespread flu transmission
• UK strategy could prevent 7,400 HIV infections in MSM by 2020
• Viral load useful in making Ebola treatment decisions
• Zoonotic infections may linger undetected for years before human outbreaks
• Zygomycosis hospital outbreak traced to contaminated linen
• HPV vaccine: Three shots at disease prevention Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP; Rebecca Nolen, PharmD, BCPS