Gastrointestinal Infections News

Last year, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, issued an advisory on health worker burnout and well-being, declaring the situation a “crisis” and naming it a “top national priority.”

There has been an alarming increase in extensively drug-resistant Shigella infections reported through national surveillance systems.

The introduction of eight WHO-recommended vaccines into national immunization schedules slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported in MMWR.

ORLANDO — A hospital reduced the rate of hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile infection with a standardized system for early recognition and testing, researchers found.

Illnesses linked to foodborne pathogens have returned to pre-COVID-19 levels after declining during the first 2 years of the pandemic, according to a study.

Two-step Clostridioides difficile testing was associated with decreased reported incidence of hospital-onset C. difficile infection and C. difficile-specific antibiotic use, researchers found.

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President Joe Biden on Friday officially announced that former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, will be the next director of the CDC.

Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a period of waning cases in Haiti compared with PCR testing, according to the results of a small study.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored challenges in the prevention and treatment of health care-associated infections.