Gastrointestinal Infections News

Health officials have traced a series of Salmonella outbreaks to backyard poultry.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about numerous challenges and a strain on processes in health care systems, including in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, or HAIs.

My career has been on the preventing infectious diseases side.

ACG developed guidelines for the preferred management of adults with Clostridioides difficile infection, published in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.

A one-time, universal screening for chronic hepatitis B infection could prevent 23,000 additional deaths from chronic HBV-related liver disease and save almost $600 million, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

When compared with Engerix-B, a three-antigen hepatitis B vaccine candidate produced significantly high seroprotection rates in all adults, including those aged 45 years and older and those with diabetes mellitus and obesity.

As early as I can remember, science, history and fiction captured my interest.

Study findings from Denmark strongly indicate that Campylobacter can be sexually transmitted, said researchers, who found that the odds of infection were 14 times higher among men who have sex with men compared with control subjects.

None of the 43 traditional antibiotics in the clinical pipeline that target WHO priority pathogens, Clostridioides difficile or tuberculosis sufficiently addresses drug resistance, according to a new report.

IDWeek organizers announced that the 2021 meeting will be entirely virtual again because of the continued presence of COVID-19 and related restrictions.