Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• More than 1 year into Ebola outbreak, DRC facing ‘a new normal’
• CMS changes include ‘first pull incentives’ for antimicrobial development
• Q&A: Supporting diversity, inclusion in the infectious disease field
• Q&A: Using social media to promote infectious disease research
• Researchers argue for new ID subspecialty covering addiction
• Transmission of Xofluza-resistant flu virus reported in Japanese siblings
• USPSTF recommends screening all adults for HCV
• WHO: Pretreatment HIV drug resistance exceeds 10% in many places
• WHO: Women can use any reversible contraceptive without increased HIV risk
• Was it the right decision to introduce a second vaccine in the DRC Ebola outbreak?
• B. microti: Looks like malaria, smells like malaria, but isn’t malaria Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA approves monkeypox, smallpox vaccine
• FDA warns about rare instances of liver injury, failure with HCV therapies
• Merck’s Ebola vaccine, used widely in DRC outbreak, up for FDA approval
• New technologies have potential to prevent HAIs
• Hooked on ID with Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH
• Antibiotic resistance rising in farmyard chickens and pigs
• Canada sees 30% decline in hospital infections
• Carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii colonization persists for months
• Community hospitals ‘likely’ to use new antibiotics for off-label indications
• Doxycycline prophylaxis promising for bacterial STI prevention
• Elevated fatty liver index in HCV/HIV coinfection predicts mortality risk
• Facebook, Instagram to promote CDC, WHO vaccine information
• HIV-exposed, uninfected kids hospitalized at twice the rate of unexposed kids
• HPV vaccine offers herd protection against oral HPV in men
• Implementing ASP via telehealth represents a ‘viable’ strategy
• Longer sleeves reduce contamination during PPE removal
• Maternal quinolone exposure increases risk for resistant infection in child
• More than 70% of UTIs are non-device associated
• Mortality risk for Ebola survivors in Guinea five times greater than general population
• MRSA colonization common on intake at Chicago jail
• N95 respirators, medical masks offer similar protection from flu
• Nearly 25% of maternal deaths in US are sepsis related
• Novel drug combination noninferior to meropenem for treating cUTIs
• Ongoing infection risk reduces long-term survival for PWID with infective endocarditis
• Oseltamivir for flu prophylaxis in health care personnel comes with challenges
• Proximity to outbreak, trust in government influence vaccine views
• Rectal gonorrhea associated with increased HIV infection risk in MSM
• Short-course parenteral antibiotics effective for bacteremic UTI in infants
• Social support, HIV self-management improve transition from pediatric to adult care
• Stewardship-focused rounds improve guideline adherence among medical residents
• Study finds no association between ‘extreme grooming,’ STIs in women
• Study: Malaria eradication achievable by 2050
• TB rates declining among US children, but disparities persist
• Researchers uncover ‘hidden’ Zika outbreak
• Treatment options for severe malaria ‘grim’ in US, clinicians urged to act
• UTI diagnosis occurs increasingly in virtual care setting
• Only 52% of US adults plan to get flu vaccine, survey shows