Respiratory Infections News

“We’re really excited about the developments in influenza vaccine right now,” Creech said.

Children with fast-breathing pneumonia who were treated with oral amoxicillin had a significantly lower rate of treatment failure compared with children who received a placebo, according to results of a randomized clinical trial published in JAMA Pediatrics. However, by day 4, treatment outcomes were comparable between the two groups.

Just two strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis account for almost all cases of tuberculosis in China, according to study findings published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

A new analysis of three pivotal tuberculosis trials showed that a shorter treatment regimen — 4 months instead of 6 — is effective in patients with minimal disease.

The use of pyrosequencing to detect mutations associated with resistance to certain antibiotics resulted in patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis receiving effective treatment more than 5 weeks earlier than patients whose specimens were not submitted for pyrosequencing, according to study findings published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Children residing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, who had previously been infected with measles are more likely to develop acute infectious disease symptoms compared to children who were never infected, according to research published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

Patients with ischemic stroke who acquire a common infection — most notably urinary tract infections — while hospitalized have increased odds of being readmitted within 30 days compared with patients who did not develop an infection, according to a study published in Stroke.

Researchers developed a fluorescent imaging probe that can visualize gram-negative bacteria in human lungs in real time and reported that it was safe, practical and effective in detecting infections in a proof-of-concept study.

The switch from the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or PCV7, to the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, or PCV13, in children was associated with major declines in pneumococcal disease in U.S. adults, according to research published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Eighteen cases of adenovirus have been confirmed among pediatric residents at a New Jersey nursing and rehabilitation center, according to New Jersey Department of Health officials. Six of these cases have resulted in deaths, they said.