Gastrointestinal Infections News

Physicians and assisting staff who do not wear protective masks during endoscopy are at risk for exposures that could result in the transmission of infectious diseases, according to research published in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mavyret yielded nearly perfect SVR rates after 8 weeks of therapy in compensated cirrhosis with HCV, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO — NS5A resistance-associated substitutions at several positions, including Y93, may hold information about DAA treatment response, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. states in the Appalachian region demonstrated increased rates of hepatitis B among women despite overall national rates of acute and chronic HBV remaining stable or declining among women and children, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2018.

Piperacillin-tazobactam is “particularly damaging” to human gut microbiota and its use is associated with a low abundance of potentially protective bacteria, including those that might defend against Clostridium difficile and multidrug-resistant organisms, according to findings from a study of ICU patients.

Common supermarket produce is a reservoir for transferable antibiotic resistance genes that may be missed by traditional detection methods, researchers found.

SAN FRANCISCO — Despite continued drug use, hepatitis C reinfection rarely occurred in a cohort of patients with HCV who received opioid agonist therapy and were treated for HCV, according to findings presented at The Liver Meeting 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO — Universal screening of pregnant women at risk for hepatitis C was more efficient and cost-effective compared with risk-based screening, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2018.

SAN FRANCISCO — Mavyret was highly effective and well-tolerated in patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 who had experience with a combination of Sovaldi, NS5A inhibitor and ribavirin, according to data presented at The Liver Meeting 2018.

A donated catered meal seems to be the cause of a foodborne outbreak of Staphylococcus aureus that sickened dozens of staff members last year at a hospital in Houston after Hurricane Harvey, according to findings published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.