Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Preventing foodborne disease a ‘farm to fork issue’
• Avycaz reduces risk for death from CRE by 23% compared with colistin
• Bacteria from guinea pigs may cause severe pneumonia in people
• Chicago LGBTQ center increases STD testing, infection disparities persist
• Company stops Zika vaccine trials after BARDA ends funding
• Cuts in foreign aid for HIV place millions at risk
• Evidence-based care reduces mortality among patients with S. aureus bacteremia
• Ex-CDC chief Frieden launches global health program with $225M in funds
• Experts issue recommendations for reducing antibiotic use in livestock
• Fake patients test NYC emergency preparedness for measles, MERS
• Gardasil 9 efficacious in preventing HPV
• How to get retweeted at a medical conference
• HPV vaccination rate up among teens, but improvement still needed
• Latest H7N9 epidemic biggest yet, new vaccines sought
• Lesotho HIV sites see ART start-up increases around 80%
• New hypervirulent superbug kills 5 in Chinese ICU, alarming experts
• Officials urge influenza vaccination as coverage rates lag in some groups
• Pediatric vaccination rates down after ACIP recommends against LAIV
• Pet turtles cause multistate outbreak of Salmonella
• Q&A: Treating older adults with HIV
• Report highlights challenges of HIV care in rural deep South
• Reported US cases of three STDs reaches record two million
• Third vaccine dose shows short-term benefits in Iowa mumps outbreak
• Transgender HIV testing rate about half that of gay, bisexual men
• Should all food be irradiated?
• The critical role of antimicrobial susceptibility testing in medical decision-making Ellie J.C. Goldstein, MD
• ‘Sepsis’ is in the eye of the beholder Larry M. Bush, MD, FACP; Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• HPV over 3 decades: A preventable epidemic
• A. baumannii, P. aeruginosa outnumber CRE in US hospitals
• Antibiotic spending falls 16.6% amid growth in stewardship programs
• Antimicrobial stewardship program feasible, effective in NICU
• Bivalent vaccine reduces HPV prevalence in younger men
• Community-acquired pneumonia hospitalizes more than 1.5 million patients each year
• Disabilities persist in Ebola survivors 1 year after illness
• Elevated chymase levels in serum predict severe dengue
• Epstein-Barr virus increases risk for MS across multiple races
• Few antibiotic trials convey purpose, efficacy goals to patients
• Gaps persist in global yellow fever vaccination coverage
• HCV-based liver transplant survival jumps in early DAA era
• HIV care retention better with 6- month intervals in Zambia
• HIVMA releases chronic pain treatment guidelines for patients with HIV
• India avoids 1 million child deaths, reduces infectious disease mortality
• Lower respiratory tract infections remain leading infectious cause of death worldwide
• Mummified remains may shed light on modern parasitic infection
• New combination treatment comparable to WHO-recommended ACT in children with malaria
• New drug trials for hospital-acquired pneumonia cost $89,600 per patient
• Nine genes may predict immune response to influenza vaccine
• Novel rapid tests improve influenza diagnosis
• Patient empowerment intervention improves hand hygiene
• Patients with HCV engage in risky behavior, causing excess mortality
• PEP highly effective in preventing measles during 2013 NYC outbreak
• Physicians: 20% of medical care unneeded, malpractice fears common
• Researchers detect rare resistance mutation in UTI-causing pathogen
• Researchers improve design of Xpert MTB/RIF assay
• Routine rapid HCV testing cost-effective in younger generations
• Sharing injection paraphernalia does not lead to HCV transmission
• Short-course superior to long-course antibiotic therapy for cIAIs
• DAAs safe, effective for heart transplant recipients with HCV
• Surgical scrubs embedded with antimicrobials do not reduce contamination in ICUs
• TB a leading cause of death among children worldwide
• Vaccination decreased measles antibody in plasma donors
• Zika virus infection lowers sperm count in men
• Adjuvanted influenza vaccine more effective for young children
• Children with asthma often prescribed unnecessary antibiotics
• HCV treatment cures patients despite injection drug use
• The changing HCV treatment cascade Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP; Jocelyn Mason, PharmD