Pediatric ID News

The risk for bacteremia was low — just over 1% — among children and young adults with sickle cell disease who presented at the emergency department with a fever, according to the results of a large study published in JAMA Network Open.

A shorter course of antibiotics may be enough to treat some pediatric UTIs, a study found, although experts encouraged physicians to speak to parents about a potentially increased risk for treatment failure from a shorter course.

The CDC issued a health alert Monday after two states reported the first locally acquired malaria cases in the United States in 20 years.

ORLANDO — Staff at a children’s hospital in Virginia collaborated to go almost a year without a central line-associated bloodstream infection, researchers reported.

ORLANDO — A children’s hospital used decolonization protocols to drive down rates of MRSA in three intensive care units by more than 40%, according to data reported at a medical conference.

CDC advisors on Thursday unanimously supported the addition of Pfizer’s 20-valent pneumococcal vaccine as an option for children in the United States.

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A Texas health system moderately increased adherence to syphilis testing among pregnant people by implementing a tool that interrupted the completion of a chart if a test was not ordered, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

President Joe Biden on Friday officially announced that former North Carolina secretary of health Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, will be the next director of the CDC.

Stool culture “performed worse than would be expected” in diagnosing cholera during a period of waning cases in Haiti compared with PCR testing, according to the results of a small study.