Gastrointestinal Infections News

Intent Solutions announced a partnership with the University of Kentucky in a $15 million federal grant program aimed at eliminating hepatitis C in an eastern Kentucky county that has particularly high rates of chronic infection, according to a press release.

For the second time in 2 years, a multistate outbreak of Salmonella has been linked to papayas imported from Mexico. This one is being caused by Salmonella Uganda, a rare serotype, an expert said.

Vibration-controlled transient elastography outperformed aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index and Fibrosis-4 index as a noninvasive biomarker for advanced fibrosis in patients with hepatitis B and HIV coinfection, according to a study published in Hepatology.

Recent vomiting is the main source of airborne norovirus and a likely cause of outbreaks in health care facilities, according to study results published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

The pangenotypic direct-acting antiviral Mavyret demonstrated 100% sustained virologic response in adolescent patients aged 12 years to 17 years with a safety profile consistent with adult patients, according results from part one of the DORA study.

Since its introduction in 2011, adoption of diverting loop ileostomy for fulminant Clostridioides difficile colitis has more than doubled, and the procedure appeared to be a viable alternative to total colectomy, according to study findings published in JAMA Surgery.

Findings from a prospective cohort study of healthy infants suggest with toxigenic Clostridiodes difficile, or TCD, immune response against the toxins “natural immunization.

A multistep process hemodialysis patients according to findings published in Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology.

SAN DIEGO — Patients who receive antibiotic treatment for Helicobacter pylori infection experience gastric cancer at rates higher than the general population, and several risk factors can increase that risk even further, according to data presented at Digestive Disease Week.

Antibiotic prophylaxis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is less effective in cirrhotic patients with known multidrug-resistant organisms, according to a recent study.