Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- The microbiome: Looking at microbes as more than pathogens
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- Use of e-health care in HIV has benefits, drawbacks
- AASLD/IDSA recommend HBV testing in HCV guidance update
- Adults with HIV, depression have elevated risk for MI
- Americas becomes first region declared free of measles
- Emergence of colistin resistance represents ‘threatening development’
- Experts hope for better vaccination rates for 2016-2017 flu season
- Global survey reveals Europeans most skeptical about vaccine safety
- Health organizations urge Senate leaders to pass PATH Act
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- Legionella infections linked to device in hospital’s hot water system
- Liberian semen testing program supports male Ebola survivors
- Methadone users’ misconceptions about HCV delay treatment
- NARMS annual report now includes Salmonella data from CDC
- New antibiotic shows promise against gonorrhea amid news of resistant Hawaii strain
- One-step HCV test demonstrates 99% specificity, 100% sensitivity
- Rare case of ‘parrot fever’ sickens English bird-keeper
- Scrub typhus now endemic in South America
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- Treating prisoners for HCV necessary to eliminate disease worldwide
- UN addresses ‘great challenges’ of antimicrobial resistance
- Universal HIV testing recommended for children from low-income countries
- USPSTF recommends latent TB screenings for at-risk adults
- WHO declares Sri Lanka malaria-free
- Supplements serve ‘an important function’ and are appropriately regulated
- Transitioning HIV-infected youth to adult care Alisha Liggett, MD
- Zika virus’ surprising tricks Donald Kaye, MD, MACP; Thomas M Yuill, PhD
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- Senate committee weighs in on laboratory developed test regulation
- Researchers say barriers to HCV eradication must be addressed
- CDC issues guidance for B. procyonis caused by roundworms in raccoons
- Computer-based screen identifies new antiviral targets for existing drugs
- Estimates show high global burden of human hookworm infection
- Gonorrhea cases increase fivefold in Utah from 2011-2014
- Herpes zoster subunit vaccine efficacious in older adults
- IBD prevalence in HBV patients similar to that of general population
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- Integrase inhibitors associated with improved viral suppression in HIV
- Intra-abdominal pathology associated with increased CLABSI risk in newborns
- Prenatal exposure to H1N1 flu vaccine not associated with congenital malformations
- PrEP, test-and-treat offer most cost-effective methods for HIV prevention
- Procalcitonin testing associated with lower costs, shorter lengths of stay for sepsis
- Prompt ART reduces HIV patients' cancer risk
- Rates of antibiotic use in US hospitals unchanged
- Resistant nontyphoidal Salmonella more prevalent in blood than stool
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- Rift Valley fever virus associated with miscarriage in Sudanese women
- Scope contamination occurs despite reprocessing guideline compliance
- Spread of rabies epidemic in China warrants need for specific vaccines
- Stronger data needed to clarify TB’s effect on lung microbiota
- Teen vaccination coverage greater in 'blue' states vs. 'red' states
- Indian pharmacies incorrectly supply drugs to suspected TB patients
- New regulatory requirements for implementation of antimicrobial stewardship — barrier or opportunity? Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP