Gastrointestinal Infections News

My journey in infectious diseases started out with an intense hatred and utter confusion.

The CDC issued a health advisory alerting clinicians to a spike in extensively drug-resistant shigellosis in the United States, urging them to consider this infection in cases of acute diarrhea, especially among higher risk patients.

SEATTLE — The effort to find a cure for hepatitis B faces steep challenges, Anna Suk-Fong Lok, MD, told Healio after her plenary presentation at the Conference for Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

As the COVID-19 pandemic grew, so did the feeling that the field of ID might begin to attract more physicians, drawn by the important and rewarding work that was so suddenly in the public eye.

I grew up in Bangkok, where I saw first-hand the impact of cholera, dengue, malaria and other tropical diseases — and experienced the early waves of the seventh pandemic of cholera.

Physicians have cited overwork and burnout as contributing factors making it difficult to recruit physicians for a career in infectious diseases.

A recent study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases outlined the clinical characteristics of invasive Escherichia coli disease by stratifying cases by acquisition setting, patient age and infection outcome.

The FDA has rejected Phathom Pharmaceutical’s vonoprazan new drug application for erosive esophagitis, as well as its post-approval supplement for Helicobacter pylori, due to the presence of nitrosamine impurities.

Bezlotoxumab and fecal microbiota transplantation were similarly effective at preventing both early and late recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

A probiotic safely reduced Staphylococcus aureus colonization in a phase 2 human trial without harming other gut microbiota, suggesting a potential approach to preventing infection without using antibiotics.