Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Bad flu seasons test US hospitals
• CDC: Marburg virus found in West Africa for first time
• Children often receive inappropriate antibiotics in nonpediatric EDs
• Novavax’s NanoFlu continues to demonstrate positive results in older adults
• Q&A: Differences in antibiotic prescribing between acute medical and surgical specialties
• Q&A: Developing an effective malaria vaccine
• Varicella: An annoying and potentially serious disease Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA approves Tdap vaccine Adacel for repeat vaccination
• Dolutegravir monotherapy ’not a valid option’ for patients with HIV
• EHRs: Causing burnout with the click of a button
• Hooked on ID with Anthony P. Cannella, MD, MSc, FACP Anthony P. Cannella, MD, MSc, FACP
• 42% of adults with HBV are coinfected with HDV, study finds
• Almost 16% of pediatric transplant recipients hospitalized with vaccine-preventable diseases
• Collaborations between rural clinics, pharmacists provide ‘excellent’ HCV outcomes
• Contaminated tea dispenser causes MBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae outbreak
• De-escalation not detrimental to patients with bacteremia
• Eastern equine encephalitis transmitted via solid organ transplantation
• Experts suggest more frequent mass distribution of azithromycin
• Face masks protect hog farm workers from drug-resistant S. aureus
• Flavored levofloxacin more easily accepted by children with MDR-TB
• HIV self-testing kit, financial incentives increase men’s linkage to care, prevention services
• HIV viral suppression under Ryan White care comparable to Medicaid, private insurance
• Imported cases of Lassa fever often missed for days
• Late-career physicians more likely to prescribe prolonged antibiotic courses
• Mupirocin successfully decolonizes NICU patients with S. aureus
• OVIVA: Oral therapy noninferior to IV therapy for bone and joint infections
• Prolonged course of IV cefepime increases risk for neutropenia
• Rat hepatitis E may be ‘under-recognized’ cause of hepatitis infection
• Real-time AMS a predictor of faster time to optimal therapy
• SFTS virus may be transmitted via aerosols
• Specific genotype linked to severe norovirus outbreaks, could be target of vaccine
• Strategy of screening for HBV, then treating or vaccinating is cost-effective
• Study: 14% of transgender women, 3% of transgender men have HIV
• Study: Probiotics do not reduce C. difficile in hospitalized patients
• Vaccination halves risk for flu-related hospitalization among adults
• Wound botulism outbreak associated with black tar heroin use
• XDR typhoid infections in 5 US children linked to Pakistan outbreak
• Opioid epidemic poses treatment conundrums for community-acquired MRSA infections Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP
• Should physicians prescribe antivirals to patients at high risk for flu-related complications more than 2 days after symptom onset?