Respiratory Infections News

On Tuesday, the CDC asked the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee to clarify its recommendations for protecting health care personnel, patients and others from respiratory infection transmission.

Many health care workers, including primary care providers, may have lingering questions surrounding the new respiratory syncytial virus vaccines for older adults.

Current practices for latent tuberculosis infection testing may be missing high-risk patients, according to a study assessing factors associated with testing and positivity, researchers said.

Several cases of Mycobacterium bovis — an enzootic disease typically affecting cattle — transmitted from deer to humans were reported in Michigan between 2019 and 2022, according to a recent study.

Three or more doses of maternal COVID-19 vaccine significantly enhance antibody concentrations in preterm infants compared with two or fewer doses, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk for long COVID in children, according to findings from a study of more than 1 million children published in Pediatrics.

Treating infants with azithromycin at well-child visits did not reduce mortality during a yearslong study in Burkina Faso, according to findings published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Nearly one in five patients diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children based on a 2020 definition would not be diagnosed with the illness using an updated definition, researchers reported in Pediatrics.

Paxlovid did not reduce the risk for long COVID among vaccinated, nonhospitalized people who received it within a month of their first SARS-CoV-2 infection, a study showed.

Hybrid SARS-CoV-2 immunity in pregnancy — immunity from a prior infection plus vaccination — is associated with a greater likelihood of protection at delivery for mothers and infants compared with a prior infection alone, a study found.