Pediatric ID News

Boston-area school districts that lifted mask mandates earlier this year experienced nearly 45 more cases of COVID-19 per 1,000 students and staff than school districts that kept their mandates in place, a study found.

The Asian mosquito Anopheles stephensi, linked to a 40-fold increase in malaria cases in Djibouti over the last decade, has been blamed for an unprecedented dry-season malaria outbreak in Ethiopia, according to a study.

Children aged younger than 8 years are at an elevated risk for monkeypox complications and should be considered a high-risk group, according to a review article published in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

Globally, routine vaccination coverage among infants plummeted to a 13-year low in 2021, according to data published Thursday in MMWR.

Pfizer reported topline data from a phase 3 trial of its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for pregnant women, which showed high vaccine efficacy in newborns.

Common childhood infections have returned following an interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including respiratory syncytial virus, which has caused a recent surge in the United States. Healio spoke with Mary T. Caserta, MD, a professor of infectious diseases in the department of pediatrics at the University of Rochester Medical Center, about what physicians can expect from RSV.

WASHINGTON — Neonates with sepsis were exposed to more antibiotics throughout their NICU admissions than controls and were found to have microbiome dysbiosis, researchers reported.

WASHINGTON — A MRSA PCR nasal swab showed promise as a tool for antimicrobial stewardship in a large study of pediatric critical care patients, according to findings presented here at IDWeek.

I grew up in a household surrounded by medicine and the medical needs of my sister. It was an environment I had become accustomed to and later became the focal point of my studies.

The CDC’s vaccine advisory committee voted Thursday to approve the addition of COVID-19 vaccines to the recommended childhood immunization schedule.