Emerging Diseases News

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.

As it does every year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is shining a spotlight on emerging research in HIV over the course of 4 days, this year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

To go along with our recent feature on fungal diseases, we asked Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, chair of molecular microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, why Candida auris emerged nearly simultaneously on three continents.

The latest COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk for hospitalization or visits to an ED or urgent care by around 50%, according to interim data published in MMWR.

The CDC said Friday that people with COVID-19 no longer have to isolate for 5 days if they are showing certain signs of improvement — the first time in more than 2 years that the guidance has been updated.

In January, the CDC warned physicians to be cautious when prescribing topical antifungals in light of the recent detection of antimicrobial-resistant superficial fungal infections in the United States.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Oral administration of vidofludimus calcium reduced fatigue over 14 days compared with placebo and may have a long-term positive effect in multiple sclerosis, according to a poster presented at ACTRIMS 2024.

The CDC on Wednesday recommended a spring COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for adults aged 65 years or older.

In a new clinical report, the AAP provides strategies to help pediatricians and other health care providers address parental vaccine concerns and increase immunization rates.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Long COVID, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome demonstrate overlapping characteristics that warrant further investigation, according to a speaker at the Basic and Clinical Immunology for the Busy Clinician symposium.