Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Lyme disease underreported, incidence still on the rise
• Most ID physicians support PrEP but with differing views on practice
• CDC: Young, middle-aged adults severely affected by pH1N1 this flu season
• Polio vaccines reaching Syrian children
• HCW pertussis exposure can be prevented through intervention
• CDC: Flu vaccine prevented 6.6 million illnesses last season
• Targeting bacteriophage T7 protein may aid in fight against resistant bacteria
• Chikungunya reported in French part of Saint Martin
• Malaria: Things are getting better … or not Philip J. Rosenthal, MD
• Salmonellosis: We are what we eat Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA approves new labeling for Complera
• Food processing aid approved to eliminate Salmonella
• FDA seeks proof of effectiveness, safety of antibacterial soaps
• FDA requests changes in antibiotic use in food-producing animals
• CMV not responsible for lower response to pneumococcal vaccine
• PrEP not associated with increased sexual risk behavior
• High fungal burden predicted mortality in cryptococcal meningitis
• IDSA guidelines urge vaccinations for immunocompromised patients
• Vaccine antibodies correlated with protection against HSV-1
• Active TB increased VTE risk
• ART projected to save millions of years of life in South Africa
• Barriers to HCV care include lack of physical symptoms, treatment side effects
• HCWs' hands harbor C. difficile after routine CDI patient care
• Hypertonic saline not superior to normal saline for bronchiolitis treatment
• Sequencing clinical samples rapidly, accurately identified bacteria
• Serial norovirus infections in childhood suggest multiple genotype vaccine needed
• Telaprevir reduced HCV treatment duration in HIV-coinfected patients
• Immobilizing specific proteins restored immune cells exhausted by HIV
• TB vaccine may benefit patients at risk for MS
• Number of female sex partners, smoking predicted bacterial vaginosis
• New methods for real-time influenza forecasting appeared effective
• Frozen meals responsible for 18-state Salmonella outbreak
• IDSA, SHEA, PIDS voice support for universal HCW immunization
• New directions in hepatitis C treatment Leah Molloy, PharmD