Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Public-private partnerships critical in fight against infectious diseases
• Racing toward the right answers: Treating gram-negative bacterial infections
• Complications common in Spanish children with extrapulmonary TB
• AASLD, IDSA update HCV guidance
• CDC: Number of HPV-associated cancers rises
• CDC's Ebola reports detail key programs, lessons from epidemic
• CRISPR-Cas9 technology shows promise in ID, presents ethical quandary
• Drug trial to eliminate Ebola traces in semen opens in Liberia
• Electronic surveillance identifies vaccine-related health events during MenB outbreak
• Experts call for England's National Health Service to fund PrEP
• Increased risk for HIV among gay, bisexual adolescent males
• Labs handling hazardous agents report no accidental transmissions in 2015
• IAS-USA releases new recommendations on ARVs
• Mismatched 2014-2015 flu vaccine more effective than initially reported
• New guideline for HAP, VAP recommends shortened antibiotic therapy
• First female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika reported in New York
• NIH-funded study will monitor US Olympic, Paralympic teams for Zika infection
• Obama outlines progress, future of ACA
• One-hour test detects MRSA, CoNS
• PARTNER study: ART prevents HIV transmission among serodiscordant couples
• Women of childbearing age show increased risk for HCV
• Researchers discover Zika virus in female genital tract for first time
• Foreign aid programs effective, should be better funded
• Zika: Path to pathogenicity Scott B. Halstead, MD
• The global yellow fever threat and how to deal with it Donald Kaye, MD, MACP; Jack P. Woodall, PhD; Thomas M Yuill, PhD
• FDA approves Viekira XR for HCV genotype 1
• FDA approves Roche’s cobas HPV Test for use with SurePath Preservative Fluid
• FDA delays approval decision for Merck’s bezlotoxumab
• Model suggests sexual transmission accounts for 3% of new Zika cases
• Telementoring program improves HIV practitioners’ confidence, knowledge
• In-house assay effective for monitoring HBV in resource-limited countries
• Primary care intervention does not improve sepsis survivors' mental health QOL
• Electronic monitoring system for hand hygiene reduces MRSA rates
• AAP recommends pediatricians provide sex education to patients
• Aboriginal Canadian infants taking Synagis remain at greater risk for RSV
• EV-D68, acute flaccid myelitis linked during 2014 Colorado outbreak
• Maternal immunization protects infants against influenza for 8 weeks
• TB prevention response in US averts up to 319,000 cases from 1995-2014
• Age, presence of toxin B antibodies influence C. difficile recurrence
• ARFI elastography predicts fibrosis in patients with HCV who achieved SVR
• Artificial intelligence identifies bat species that could harbor Ebola
• Azithromycin-resistant gonorrhea emerges in US
• Circumcision, ART reduce new HIV infections in rural Ugandan men
• Colistin resistance detected in US for second time
• DAAs may benefit in long term for patients with decompensation
• Demand for new HIV providers will outstrip supply by 2019
• Prisoners share disproportionate HIV, hepatitis, TB burden
• Enteric infections constitute majority of infections in New York City infants
• Experts call for response to antibiotic resistance similar to UNAIDS
• Flu vaccination reduces respiratory, CV hospitalizations for patients with diabetes
• HCV increases risk for head, neck cancers
• Head size not always indicative of Zika-related abnormalities
• Infected kidneys suspected in rabies deaths of transplant patients in China
• Maps show US counties with Aedes mosquitoes since 1995
• Mechanical ventilation, MDR organism carriage increases risk for CP-CRE transmission
• Medical tourism to Dominican Republic results in multistate mycobacteria outbreak
• Migratory waterfowl may help spread novel H5N6 viruses in China
• Mortality from viral hepatitis increases as other ID-related deaths decrease
• Past dengue exposure may increase potency of Zika infection
• Type 2 diabetes patients exhibit higher rates of antibiotic use, infections
• PrEP can cut new HIV infections by one-third in next decade
• Pyrazinamide, fluoroquinolone resistance varies among TB-burdened countries
• Reducing antibiotics for RTIs yields no increase in bacterial complications
• ‘Super-spreader’ patient infected 82 with MERS at South Korea hospital
• Universal ED screening identifies younger HCV cases
• IGNITE2: Eravacycline inferior to levofloxacin, but IV formulation shows promise
• Single IV dose of Dalvance treats ABSSSI in IDUs equally well
• Novel HCV DAAs could be mass-produced under $90 per person
• Four fast-track cities announce 90-90-90 data on HIV/AIDS
• HIV vaccine development continues after promising early data
• Old and new: How MDR-TB treatment requires drugs of all ages Rachel S. Bacher, PharmD; Stephen M. Small, PharmD