Respiratory Infections News

ORLANDO — Wastewater surveillance is generally conducted at local, state and national population levels, but a study presented at SHEA Spring suggested it could be useful for health care facilities to conduct themselves.

ORLANDO — Combining urine antigen tests for Streptococcus pneumoniae and Legionella pneumophilia could result in significantly less plastic and paper waste, as well as fewer carbon dioxide emissions, researchers reported at SHEA Spring.

HONOLULU — New study findings provided more promising data for primary care-based telehealth.

A trial of the influenza antiviral baloxavir suggests that the drug could be used as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent infection among household contacts of someone infected with the virus.

The economic burden of long COVID may exceed $2 billion and reach nearly $31 billion when symptoms last between 1 and 3 years, and researchers say these numbers will likely continue to grow as COVID-19 cases increase.

CDC advisors recommended this week that the age at which some patients can get vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus be lowered to 50 years old.

Following the success of recent clinical trials, several major infectious disease agencies updated treatment guidance for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis for adolescents and adults.

VIENNA — A point-of-care lung ultrasound system connected to a smartphone combined with a suite of deep learning models outperformed human analyses as well as WHO requirements for non-sputum tuberculosis tests.

VIENNA — After decades of fits and starts, scientists finally got the world’s first vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus across the finish line in 2023.