Pediatric ID News

Ivory Coast administered the first doses of the world’s second malaria vaccine this week, according to the vaccine’s manufacturers, marking the latest development in a decades-long effort to control the deadly mosquito-borne disease.

Socioeconomic disparities among residential neighborhoods may be associated with the prevalence of five specific antimicrobial-resistant organisms, especially AmpC beta-lactamase producers and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

The monoclonal antibody nirsevimab reduced the risk that infants would be hospitalized for respiratory syncytial virus-associated bronchiolitis, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

A Florida hospital doubled the size of its infection prevention staff over a 4-year period and saw a substantial decrease in hospital-related infections, researchers reported at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual meeting.

Late last month, members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced H.R. 8839, the bipartisan Maternal and Infant Syphilis Prevention Act.

Installation of a stethoscope disinfection device improved hand hygiene compliance among health care workers at an urgent care clinic and ED, researchers reported.

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.