Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Supercharged bacteria a concern for infectious disease physicians
• Adjuvanted pandemic flu vaccine efficacious in children and young adults
• Assay comparable with TST in diagnosing TB in children at high risk for illness
• FDA approves HPV vaccine for anal cancer
• Secondhand smoke associated with invasive meningococcal disease
• With adult immunization, everything old is news again William Schaffner, MD
• Hajj 2010 regarded as a success in public health circles
• Electronic health records had little effect on quality of care
• President signs bill forestalling Medicare physician payment cut for 1 year
• Cancers, diabetes associated with increased risk for L. monocytogenes
• CDC updates STD guidelines
• Ceftaroline well-tolerated, comparable to ceftriaxone in community-acquired pneumonia
• Cholera strain in Haiti came from outside Latin America, linked to South Asia
• Emergence of dual-resistant influenza viruses poses public health concern
• Expanding HIV screening cost-effective measure to reduce spread
• Fetal antiretroviral therapy exposure may impair myocardial growth, improve depressed LV function
• Genetic, immunologic patterns may offer insight into second malignancy etiologies
• H1N1 influenza vaccine safe, effective in people with asthma
• Health care-associated infections more common in developing vs. high-income nations
• HIV-1 replicates, evolves in HIV-1 controllers
• Monovalent vaccine decreased incidence of pandemic influenza strain in Beijing
• Neonatal HSV incidence varied by geography, health insurance status
• Oral tenofovir disoproxil fumarate had no effect on HSV shedding rates in adults co-infected with HIV-1
• Plastic cover for stethoscopes may curb hospital-acquired infections
• Researchers explore future of influenza vaccines
• Stem cell transplant may have cured HIV infection in Berlin patient