Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Women in ID push against glass ceiling
• Most HCP agree with employer-mandated flu vaccination policies
• New study confirms efficacy of permethrin-treated clothing against tick bites
• Study IDs significant infection control gaps at small rural hospitals
• Study reveals nonmedical vaccine exemption ‘hotspots’ in US
• Study supports safety concerns of world’s only dengue vaccine
• Two-drug HIV regimen effective in treatment-naive patients
• Should conferences require that half of presenters be women?
• The liberating message of ‘Undetectable = Untransmittable’ Dawn Averitt; Elizabeth Connick, MD; Judith D. Auerbach, PhD; Jenna Conley
• Yellow fever: Still a menace for humans and other primates Thomas M Yuill, PhD; Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA considers changing reimbursement model for new antimicrobial drugs
• ID clinicians experience burnout but may be spared some root causes
• Asymptomatic C. difficile carriers key source of nosocomial transmission
• Cryptosporidium infection stunts kids’ growth
• Foreign-born women in US less likely to be vaccinated against HBV
• Insurance denials for HCV therapy increase in US
• Large study finds rampant antibiotic misuse for respiratory infections
• Mucus protects airborne flu in humid conditions
• Two-thirds of patients with HIV had missed opportunities for PrEP
• Vaccination program leads to decline in high-risk HPV in England
• Another source of foodborne disease to consider: kitchen towels
• Bacteriophages may play role in Parkinson’s disease
• No pan-resistant C. auris isolates in NYC outbreak
• PRO 140 on track to be part of combination MDR HIV treatment
• Regulatory T cells may help block mother-to-child HIV transmission
• Researchers ‘solve’ mock burglaries using microbiome
• Resistance genes shared among unrelated bacteria in CRE outbreak
• T2Bacteria Panel demonstrates ‘excellent’ sensitivity, specificity
• US military explores microbiology of combat wounds
• What is on the horizon for flu treatment? Jeff Brock, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP