Respiratory Infections News

The performance of many COVID-19 home-testing kits worsened after the omicron variant emerged, according to a recent study.

The implementation of a nationwide acute respiratory tract infection management intervention was associated with improved infection management and a reduction in antibiotic prescribing, a recent study showed.

Combining manuka honey and the antibiotic amikacin in a lab-based nebulization formulation was effective for inhibiting Mycobacterium abscessus and drug-resistant clinical isolates in patients with cystic fibrosis or bronchiectasis.

A recent study showed that the risk of death among hospitalized patients with COVID-19 was substantially lower during the later period of omicron variant predominance compared with earlier omicron and delta predominance.

The rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections among patients with COVID-19 significantly increased during COVID-19 patient surges, according to a recent study.

There was a short-term increase in selection for resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae among children who received azithromycin during a mass administration of the antibiotic, but no evidence of long-term resistance, a study found.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — Although nearly every health care facility has felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, smaller, nonacademic medical centers are facing these problems with fewer resources to fall back on.

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — COVID-19 and monkeypox have caused severe stress on the health care system, which has weakened the overall response to other ongoing infectious disease battles like the one against antimicrobial resistance.

Researchers estimated that 10.5 million children globally have lost a caregiver to COVID-19, including 7.5 million who were orphaned after losing a parent or primary caregiver, according to results published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Experts raised questions about comments from U.S. officials this week that the new bivalent COVID-19 boosters are likely the first of what will become annual shots against SARS-CoV-2.