Gastrointestinal Infections News

Healio will have live coverage of this year’s ESCMID Global, one of the largest medical conferences dedicated to infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in the world.

Clinical Infectious Diseases has launched a new series that will provide an in-depth look at real-life complex cases and the associated diagnostic and management decisions that ID clinicians deal with regularly.

Six common pathogens were responsible for nearly 10 million foodborne illnesses in 2019, according to an analysis published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Clostridioides difficile isolates with reduced fidaxomicin susceptibility may emerge during treatment and could spread to other patients, researchers found.

Among children with suspected nonperforated appendicitis, antibiotic management appeared inferior to appendectomy, according to results of a large, noninferiority trial published in The Lancet.

Infections requiring hospitalization were associated with increased risk for future incident heart failure, regardless of infection and HF subtype, according to new data published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

A dozen people have died and 38 have been sickened in a multistate Listeria outbreak linked to frozen supplemental nutrition shakes distributed in long-term care facilities, the CDC said.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the next HHS secretary.

The CDC on Thursday published its famed Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report for the first time since the Trump administration ordered the nation’s various health agencies to freeze public communications.