Pediatric ID News

Belize, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines became the latest nations to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) announced.

TORONTO — An adolescent medicine clinic more than quadrupled its HIV screening rate by offering point-of-care saliva testing, according to findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

TORONTO — Rotavirus vaccination is not associated with significant outbreaks of the disease in NICUs, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

TORONTO — An online training module that instructed clinicians to assess vaccination status and use strong language to recommend vaccines helped increased influenza vaccine uptake at 12 obstetrics clinics, according to researchers.

TORONTO — Pediatric hospital transfers due to bronchiolitis increased at a disproportionate rate in recent years compared with all causes of hospitalization, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.

TORONTO — Shorter courses of antibiotics were associated with increased odds of reinfection and death among infants treated in the NICU for Escherichia coli bacteremia who were not evaluated for meningitis, a study showed.

Most children in three rural Alabama counties live without connections to centralized sewer systems, placing them at risk for certain infections, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The number of global measles cases nearly doubled in 1 year after a decline in vaccine coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

The world’s response to outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polio has slowed over the past decade, according to finding presented at the CDC’s Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference.

A new tool could help pediatricians identify infants most at risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus, according to research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.