Pediatric ID News

As health care workers, we have daily encounters with sick patients who could potentially have a contagious illness. Measles is a particular challenge in the health care setting.

Rather than telling a patient they should get a vaccine, the CDC’s shared clinical decision-making recommendations advise patients to speak to providers about certain vaccines and decide on an individual basis if they should receive them. 

After decades of RSV vaccine development, the approvals and recommendations were seen as landmark events in preventive medicine. Uptake was low, however — not unusual for first-year approvals, experts told Healio.

Children hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2 or an inflammatory syndrome associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection who experience severe neurological manifestations may be at a higher risk for long-term impairment, a study found.

When it comes to screening perinatally exposed infants for hepatitis C virus, the earlier the better, a study showed.

SAN ANTONIO — We caught up with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, at the annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology to find out how she got “Hooked on ID.”

Lenacapavir, an injectable antiretroviral drug approved by the FDA for HIV treatment, prevented 100% of new HIV infections among women in a phase 3 trial in Africa, demonstrating its efficacy as PrEP, Gilead Sciences said.

We checked in with CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, for an update on the agency’s efforts to modernize the nation’s disease surveillance and data systems and improve how the CDC communicates with the public and physicians.

Urinalysis did not accurately diagnose UTIs in children with spina bifida, according to study results published in Pediatrics.

COVID-19 mitigation measures disrupted the circulation of respiratory syncytial virus, leading to atypical season in 2021 and 2022 that saw higher rates of hospitalization among young children, according to research published in Pediatrics.