Gastrointestinal Infections News

An investigation linked recent cases of Listeria infection in the United States to older cases dating back to 2014, connecting them as one continuous outbreak linked to recalled dairy products, the CDC said.

Researchers estimated that hundreds of small foodborne disease outbreaks may go undetected in the United States each year, based on a statistical analysis of data from the last 2-plus decades.

A single dose of a typhoid conjugate vaccine provided protection for at least 4 years among children aged 9 months to 12 years enrolled in a phase 3 trial in Malawi, according to results published in The Lancet.

Closing the toilet lid before flushing does not lessen the risk of contaminating bathroom surfaces with viruses, researchers found.

A single dose of Eubiologics’s oral cholera vaccine provided significant protection against cholera for at least 36 months, according to data from a vaccination campaign organized in a cholera-endemic city in Africa.

An investigation into a Salmonella outbreak in Canada linked to pet bearded dragons revealed a multinational outbreak that included a dozen cases in the United States in 2021 and 2022, researchers reported.

The CDC expanded its warning on eating charcuterie meats after the number of cases in a multistate Salmonella outbreak doubled over the last 2 weeks.

California hospitals detected a high incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection among outpatients treated for diarrhea despite a low rate of testing, suggesting that outpatient C. difficile may be underdiagnosed, researchers said.

Transitioning organ transplant recipients to oral antibiotic therapy for the treatment of uncomplicated gram-negative bacteremia is effective and associated with fewer adverse events compared with continued IV therapy, researchers found.

Staying in a hospital room or bed previously occupied by someone with Clostridioides difficile nearly doubles a patient’s risk for hospital onset-C. difficile infection, researchers found.