Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• ‘Negative Fauci effect’? ID reckons with disappointing Match Day Stephen I. Feller
• Another HIV vaccine fails to provide protection in discontinued trial Stephen I. Feller
• CDC publishes first estimates of bivalent boosters’ effectiveness against XBB.1.5 Gerard Gallagher; Caitlyn Stulpin
• Children bore brunt of ‘early and intense’ flu season Rose Weldon
• Covering N95 respirator with face mask can increase risk of leakage Caitlyn Stulpin
• Diversion device successfully aids in lowering blood culture contamination rates Caitlyn Stulpin
• FDA committee endorses plan to simplify COVID-19 vaccines Stephen I. Feller
• Integrating ID, substance use care reduces risk for readmission, death Stephen I. Feller
• More than half of patients with TB had no symptoms before testing positive Caitlyn Stulpin
• Still unclear if procalcitonin can aid in antibiotic prescribing for lower respiratory tract infection Caitlyn Stulpin
• Q&A: Pan-resistant gonorrhea ‘may be inevitable’ without changes Stephen I. Feller
• Safety signal for COVID-19 booster unlikely to be ‘true clinical risk,’ officials say Stephen I. Feller
• Single dose of Jynneos mpox vaccine reduces hospitalization risk, disease severity Stephen I. Feller
• Study: Absolute effectiveness of recent COVID-19 booster against hospitalization is 81% Caitlyn Stulpin
• Survey results indicate nearly 19 million US adults may have long COVID Caitlyn Stulpin
• Uganda declares end of Ebola outbreak that killed 55 Caitlyn Stulpin
• Vaccine coverage among US kindergarteners declines again Rose Weldon
• ‘Very reassuring’: COVID-19 vaccination safe for children after MIS-C Rose Weldon
• XBB.1.5 finds ‘evolutionary sweet spot,’ becomes most transmissible subvariant Stephen I. Feller
• Do ID physicians have a good quality of life?
• Hooked on ID with J. Glenn Morris Jr., MD, MPH&TM
• GAS on a stewardship fire: Treatment alternatives for pediatric group A strep pharyngitis Hunter O. Rondeau, PharmD; Jennifer Ross, PharmD, BCIDP