Gastrointestinal Infections News

As typhoid fever becomes increasingly resistant to antibiotics, a study published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine showed that a conjugate vaccine for the disease proved effective for Malawi’s younger population.

I began my training at the beginning of the HIV pandemic. I still remember a lecture during my second year of medical school in which a young man told us that his friends were dying of a new disease called gay-related immunodeficiency disease, subsequently known as AIDS.

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, data indicate that there has been a surge in interest among U.S. college students in pursuing medicine as a career.

CDC researchers identified 28 food items that caused disease outbreaks for the first time between 2007 and 2016 in the United States.

A novel modeling method demonstrated that, when it comes to identifying hot spots for bacterial contamination in patient hospital rooms, distance matters.

Among asymptomatic children, the prevalence of Clostridioides difficile is greatest among infants aged between 6 and 12 months, according to the results of a symptomatic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.

The CDC is investigating two multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections that have been linked to consumption of Italian-style meats.

I chose ID as a medical specialty because of the intellectual stimulation and investigative nature that accompanies the study of microbes within humans.

People who inject drugs experienced sustained increases in health-related quality of life when they were successfully treated for hepatitis C during opioid agonist treatment, according to a study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

In a small study, researchers detected gastrointestinal pathogens in 45% of men who have sex with men taking HIV PrEP, according to findings published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.