Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Clinicians face new challenge in HIV: Obesity
• Access, watch, reserve: WHO committee advises when to use common antibiotics
• Adjunctive antibiotic therapy improves cure rates for simple skin abscesses
• Arizona newborns diagnosed with Legionnaires’ disease after water births
• CDC: Health care-associated Legionnaires’ disease widespread in US
• CDC reviews HIV prevention strategies among discordant couples attempting conception
• FDA approves Baxdela for ABSSSIs; more treatments in the pipeline
• Five French patients infected with hepatitis E strain found in rabbits
• In US territories, birth defects in 5% of pregnancies affected by Zika
• No science needed to blame vaccines for illness, EU court rules
• Q&A: Physician prescribing behavior impacts drug resistance
• Researchers call attention to malaria epidemic in DRC
• Researchers report hospital outbreak of mcr-1-producing K. pneumoniae in China
• Two-dose Cervarix HPV vaccine remains noninferior to three doses at 36 months
• US yellow fever vaccine to disappear in July; alternative vaccine supplied
• Zika spread in Americas long before detection
• What is the best approach to reducing obesity in people living with HIV?
• Funding for medical research and public health must reflect reality William Powderly, MD
• The confusing status of colistin dosing Donald Kaye, MD, MACP; Jessica K. Ortwine, PharmD; Jason M. Pogue, PharmD; Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH
• FDA approves first generic version of Truvada for treatment, prevention of HIV
• Antimicrobial resistance over 3 decades: Moving toward a post-antibiotic era
• Antimicrobial stewardship paired with allergy testing increases appropriate therapies
• C. kroppenstedtii-related mastitis potentially linked to psychiatric illness
• Depression prevalent in patients with outward signs of lymphatic filariasis
• Electronic HCV screening intervention improves testing, linkage to care in baby boomers
• Financial incentives increase viral suppression in HIV patients
• HAIs caused by gram-negative bacteria, MRSA increase mortality risk
• HIV may prompt progression of HPV infection to cervical precancer
• ID team increases survival of patients with severe sepsis/septic shock
• Investigational HCV regimen shows promise in two phase 3 trials
• Malaria drug improves efficacy of glioblastoma treatment
• Rapid tests for respiratory viruses show high specificity, wide range of sensitivity
• Recreational water-based cryptosporidiosis outbreaks doubled in 2 years
• Rise in multiply recurrent C. difficile increases demand for therapies
• CD4+ T cells rebound in HIV patients after chemotherapy
• Scientists develop more powerful form of vancomycin
• Kaposi sarcoma risk persists despite advances in HIV treatment
• Study findings challenge recommendations for defining recurrent CDI, reinfection
• Study indicates potential link between influenza during pregnancy and autism
• Study reveals microbiome of newly opened hospital
• Australia’s national screening program for syphilis shows progress
• ‘Tweak’ in order set increases HCV screening among patients with HIV
• ACIP remains opposed to LAIV
• Home-based self-sampling vaginal swab preferred by 80% of patients
• Inadequate vaccination, malaria prevention among teens traveling internationally
• Inspections reveal bacterial growth on reprocessed ureteroscopes
• Intervention significantly reduces MRSA in Veterans living center
• Lefamulin effective in vitro against CABP, other respiratory infections
• Long-term care facilities in US lack resources for infection prevention
• Mortality risk nearly doubles for patients with MDR P. aeruginosa
• New UTI test detects more bacteria than standard test
• Next-generation sequencing test identifies pathogens quickly in stem cell transplant patients
• Plazomicin associated with reduced mortality, serious complications among CRE patients
• Study: 37% of heater-cooler devices contaminated with M. chimaera