Gastrointestinal Infections News

The ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to pre-cut cantaloupes has doubled in cases, according to the latest update from CDC.

Hospital-associated infections declined significantly at acute-care hospitals in 2022, although rates at other health care facilities remained relatively stagnant, according to a CDC report.

The CDC issued a warning Thursday not to eat pre-cut cantaloupe if the brand of the fruit is not known, the latest development in a growing outbreak of Salmonella infections that has sickened more than 100 people, killing two.

Nearly half of infectious diseases fellowship programs were not filled on Match Day as the number of applicants declined despite an increase in certified ID programs, the Infectious Diseases Society of America announced.

Moxidectin was noninferior to ivermectin for patients with strongyloidiasis, according to data published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

We caught up with Mary Foote, MD, MPH, at IDWeek to ask how she got “Hooked on ID.”

Chlorine-based bleach cleaning solutions are no more effective at killing Clostridioides difficile on surfaces and hospital scrubs than water, a study found.

Older veterans were slightly more likely to be hospitalized and more than twice as likely to die in the 3 days after testing for norovirus compared with those who testing negative, according to study results.

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

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