Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Expanded HPV vaccination could significantly impact public health
• 4 months of rifampin noninferior to 9 months of isoniazid for latent TB
• FDA adds 4 tropical diseases to priority review voucher
• FDA committee recommends omadacycline for approval
• Global survey shows progress, gaps in antimicrobial resistance efforts
• Measles cases hit record high in Europe, nearly doubling 2017 total
• Q&A: Bacteria in dog and cat saliva can make humans sick Marley V. Ghizzone
• Record 2.3 million STDs reported in US, CDC says
• WHO updates treatment guidelines for multidrug-resistant TB
• Zika causes health concerns in 14% of infants exposed in US territories
• Guidelines for managing community-acquired pneumonia in need of re-evaluation Larry M. Bush, MD, FACP; Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA approves two, once-daily doravirine treatments for HIV
• Janssen receives FDA approval for Symtuza
• CDC graphic novel teaches kids about variant flu, epidemiology
• ‘Could have been much worse’: India stops deadly Nipah outbreak
• Hooked on ID with Susan C. Bleasdale, MD Susan C. Bleasdale, MD
• Active screening for CRE feasible in ICUs
• Azithromycin inferior to doxycycline for uncomplicated murine typhus
• Catch-up HPV vaccination effective for women up to age 20 years
• Community-onset C. difficile infection accounts for large number of cases
• Ebola outbreak has lasting impact on Liberians’ livelihood
• Ebola survivors experience increased neurologic symptoms decades after outbreak
• Experts find discrepancies between FDA, CDC vaccine recommendations
• Fluoroquinolones most common UTI treatment despite black box warning
• Gaps found in adult vaccination referrals, administrations
• HCV reinfection after SVR common in recent injection drug users
• Heart transplant with HCV-positive organs successful, virus cleared
• HIV prevention intervention in young transgender women results in safer sex
• HIV viral suppression rates nearly triple in US, disparities remain
• Japanese encephalitis circulates in nonrural settings, suggesting wider vaccination efforts needed
• Most acute gastroenteritis outbreaks in youth camps from food, water
• MRSA colonization significantly increases risk for subsequent infection
• Obesity nearly doubles duration of influenza A virus shedding in adults
• Patients disease-free at 1 year following HCV-infected kidney transplant
• Patients with candidemia have significant risk for CDI coinfection
• Patients with chronic HBV die at younger age
• Patients with UTI, penicillin allergy at increased risk for ciprofloxacin resistance
• Post-treatment HIV control more common in patients who received early ART
• Study: Antimicrobials commonly prescribed for dying patients despite limited efficacy
• Trained dogs can detect C. difficile in stool
• Treating HCV in prison ‘microenvironment’ reduces transmission
• POET: Oral antibiotics viable residual treatment for left-sided endocarditis
• Biomarker-guided antimicrobial stewardship: The next target, or missing the mark? Leah Molloy, PharmD
• Which is the better use of resources: increasing HPV vaccine uptake or developing new vaccines that protect against all oncogenic HPV strains?