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Interleukin-17 and IL-23 inhibitors do not increase the risk for tuberculosis reactivation among patients with psoriatic disease who have a latent tuberculosis infection, according to a retrospective study.

People with drug use-associated infective endocarditis are at high risk of mortality and future hospitalization for bacterial infections, including endocarditis, skin and soft tissue infections and bacteremia, researchers found.

We caught up with Gonzalo Bearman, MD, MPH, at the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring Conference to ask how he got “Hooked on ID.”

An investigation of mpox cases during a 2023 outbreak revealed that cases were likely due to frequent behaviors associated with mpox transmission despite most patients being vaccinated with a relatively highly effective vaccine.

The FDA has granted emergency use authorization for Labcorp’s Mpox PCR Test Home Collection Kit, the company announced in a press release.

The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is getting a new name.

Given my family history of MDs — my father, siblings and spouses of my siblings are all physicians — I actively tried to steer clear of medicine, but in the end, I just couldn’t help myself.

The FDA this week approved the antibiotic Zevtera for the treatment of three bacterial infections 17 years after it was first submitted to the agency.

Artificial intelligence has emerged as a potentially important tool for patient care, including in infectious diseases.

When I was in high school, I was given the opportunity to take a part-time job that was a little out of the ordinary for my age: I worked for a clinical microbiologist selling sterile sheep blood to microbiology laboratories to make bacterial culture agar.