Respiratory Infections News

The development of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay has been the most important breakthrough for the diagnosis of tuberculosis in decades.

Experts are warning that it is not a matter of if, but when, the next pandemic strikes.

Half of all patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia, or HAP, were aged 66 years and younger, study data showed.

Adding household screening to standard passive case finding more than doubled the detection of tuberculosis cases during a nearly 5-year study in Vietnam, where the disease is prevalent but undertreated, according to findings published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Although human rhinovirus in febrile infants did not change the risk of bacterial infections in very young infants, it was a factor in the risk of invasive bacterial infection in infants aged 29 to 90 days, according to recently published research in Pediatrics.

Aradigm Corporation recently announced that the FDA’s Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee did not recommend approval for Linhaliq to treat patients with noncystic fibrosis bronchiectasis who have chronic lung infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Children with HIV in Kenya whose urine samples tested positive for lipoarabinomannan, or LAM — a biomarker of tuberculosis — had a nearly fivefold increased risk for mortality compared with children with negative LAM results, according to recent data.

Almost three-quarters of older adults think nursing homes should require all staff to get the influenza vaccine and most said they would be less likely to choose to reside in a particular nursing home if they knew that a percentage of staff was not vaccinated, according to a new poll conducted by the University of Michigan.

Treatment outcomes and survival have improved in recent years for South African patients with multidrug-resistant TB and HIV, with outcomes nearing those of patients infected only with MDR-TB, study data showed.

About 1 in 14 visitors to a major New York City tourist attraction were found to be shedding a common respiratory virus during spring and summer months — most of them without showing symptoms, according to a recently published study.