Infectious Disease News Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• ‘Paying the price for decades of inattention’: STDs resurge in US Caitlyn Stulpin
• ‘A great achievement’: Wild poliovirus type 3 eradicated globally
• Despite sick leave policies, many health care personnel work while ill
• ‘Handshake stewardship’ effective and sustainable
• M. bovis TB detected in Michigan deer hunters
• New CAP guidelines stress de-escalation
• Policy matters: Anti-LGBT legislation associated with lower rates of HIV testing, awareness
• Q&A: Antiretroviral stewardship in inpatient practice
• Q&A: Improving clinical trial design for gonorrhea treatment
• Researchers ‘encouraged’ by early data from universal flu vaccine study
• Vaccine exemption rate rises among US kindergarteners
• WHO: 7 million people diagnosed and treated for TB in 2018
• WHO: Ebola outbreak still a global public health emergency
• Xofluza reduces risk for flu by 86% in household contacts
• Should doxycycline be used as PrEP for STD prevention?
• A stewardship send-off: Optimizing antimicrobials upon discharge Jerod Nagel, PharmD; Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD
• Leptospirosis: A challenging diagnosis Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
• FDA advisory committee supports approval of cefiderocol for complicated UTIs
• FDA approves Descovy for HIV PrEP, excluding cisgender women
• How common is pneumococcal urinary antigen testing?
• ‘Like insects in amber’: ART ‘freezes’ latent HIV reservoir
• Most physicians lack on-site antimicrobials for treating gonorrhea and syphilis
• NIH announces ‘focused roadmap’ to address rise in tick-borne diseases
• Q&A: What providers need to know about congenital rubella syndrome
• Recent laxative use should not preclude testing patients for C. difficile
• Shingrix, Zostavax show promise against herpes zoster in patients with cancer
• Wireless device that transmits OPAT data to doctors wins $10K prize at IDWeek
• Hooked on ID with Elizabeth Connick, MD Elizabeth Connick, MD
• 72-hour time-out encourages de-escalation of broad-spectrum antibiotics
• Antibiotics commonly dispensed without prescription in China
• Booster doses of yellow fever vaccine may be warranted
• Broad-spectrum antibiotics may weaken flu vaccine response
• CAUTI rates decline after case definition revision, value-based incentive programs
• Chlamydia increases risk for PID, ectopic pregnancy, female infertility
• Cost of congenital syphilis hospitalizations skyrockets with increase in cases
• Current method of calculating SSIs underestimates rates of some procedures
• Ebola, Marburg viruses circulate among bats in India
• Experimental TB vaccine could have ‘vast’ impact
• Fluoroquinolone use decreases following FDA black box warning
• HBV exposure 4 times higher among female vs. male meth users
• HIV care in EDs constitutes an important strategy
• In pregnant women on ART, safer to initiate isoniazid after delivery
• Interventions push NICU vaccination coverage beyond 90%
• Is social media reinforcing gender disparities among researchers?
• IV iron does not increase risk for infection, mortality
• Long courses of antibiotics harm infant gut, promote resistance
• Maribavir shows promise against CMV in transplant recipients
• Maternal HIV infection may impact flu vaccine response in infants
• Most pregnant women do not get flu, Tdap vaccines
• Not just Lyme: 22% of blacklegged ticks collected on Long Island carry multiple pathogens
• Public reporting may impede access to valve surgery in endocarditis
• Shared patient rooms noninferior to private rooms for halting ESBL transmission
• Study demonstrates long-term success of kidney transplants between people with HIV
• HIV controllers at risk for false-negative rapid test results
• Surveillance misses many SSIs after outpatient procedures
• Tesamorelin ‘very promising’ for reversing liver disease in people with HIV
• Use of high-risk antibiotics correlates with more hospital-associated CDI
• Xpert Ultra assay identifies pediatric TB with high sensitivity
• 51% of early cases in NY measles outbreak attributed to unvaccinated adults
• Antibiotic-free or organic poultry half as likely to contain MDR Salmonella
• C. auris outbreak spreads in 9 California health facilities after single introduction
• Cefiderocol noninferior to high-dose meropenem in phase 3 trial for nosocomial pneumonia
• Cell- and egg-based flu vaccines provide similar immunogenicity, surprising researchers
• Febrile seizures following vaccination do not affect development, behavior
• Flu vaccine reduces risk for hospitalization in kids, death in adults
• H. pylori resistance to clarithromycin doubles in Europe
• HCV vaccine regimen fails to prevent chronic infections
• HIV testing increases 15-fold among teens after improvement initiative
• Integrase inhibitor-based ART may increase risk for diabetes
• Kids’ treatment for acute gastroenteritis in ED depends on race, study shows
• MSM using Grindr take more sex risks, also more likely to use HIV PrEP
• RBX2660 safe, efficacious for recurrent C. difficile prevention
• Trivalent HBV vaccine noninferior to monovalent vaccine in adults
• Valacyclovir reduces rate of fetal CMV infection by 71%
• VIDEO: Experts spend 'a day on the Hill' during IDWeek
• VIDEO: Tracking flu in the community as an 'early alert system' for hospitals
• The coming of age of rapid ART initiation in HIV Jeff Brock, PharmD, MBA, BCIDP