Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Prevention of HAIs critical to cancer care
• Bipartisan agreement crucial to antibiotic research, development
• Differences in food consumption observed between men, women
• FDA approves self-administered HIV test
• Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis found in desert regions
• HIV prevalence high among female sex workers
• HIV vaccine regimen more efficacious at 1 year, among low-risk patients
• Inadequate treatment linked to drug-resistant TB epidemic in China
• Listeriosis risk increased in older adults, pregnant Hispanic women
• Older age, nursing home residency increased risk for death from MRSA
• Point-of-care tests increased rate of syphilis testing in pregnant women
• Reduced visceral adipose tissue improved metabolic profile in HIV
• Simplified double-dose influenza vaccine algorithm recommended by ACIP
• Socioeconomic factors associated with plague differ between decades
• Three-step critical pathway reduced length of stay in patients with CAP
• Tigecycline associated with increased risk for death
• Undiagnosed TB related to low CD4 counts in HIV
• ACIP backs combo pneumococcal vaccine regimens for immunocompromised adults
• Health care planning for summer travel Herbert L. DuPont, MD, MACP
• Antibody response to flu vaccine lower if vaccine contains same strain year to year
• Reducing TB hotspots effective at reducing overall transmission rate
• Delamanid effective in multidrug resistant TB