Pediatric ID News

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, discusses three emerging or reemerging infectious diseases: polio, monkeypox and highly pathogenic avian influenza virus.

NEW YORK — In this video filmed at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, John V. Williams, MD, describes multiple interventions in development against respiratory syncytial virus, which is currently surging in the United States.

NEW YORK — In this video, Healio Pediatrics Peer Perspective Board Member C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, summarizes the “COVID corner” session at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, including his own talk on outpatient treatment.

NEW YORK — In this video filmed at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, John V. Williams, MD, reacts to updated guidelines published by the AAP in reaction to the RSV surge in children.

NEW YORK — It is hoped that the future of COVID-19 vaccines for children will include simplifying the process of getting shots into their arms, CDC medical officer Sara E. Oliver, MD, MSPH, says in this video.

NEW YORK — In this video, Roberta L. DeBiasi, MD, MS, chief of infectious diseases at Children's National Hospital in Washington, D.C., discusses emerging research in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 — or long COVID — in children.

The bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech elicited a stronger response against the BQ.1.1 sublineage than the companies’ original vaccine in people aged 55 years and older, according to new data from the companies.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.

The bacterium Clostridioides difficile tends to “cooperate” with microorganisms in the gastrointestinal tract, such as the pathogen Enterococcus, which can help the bacterium thrive, according to a study published in Nature.

SARS-CoV-2-related neurologic effects endured among children and adolescents in the United States who were hospitalized in 2021 for COVID-19 or multisystem inflammatory syndrome, researchers reported in JAMA Neurology.