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When I was in high school, I was given the opportunity to take a part-time job that was a little out of the ordinary for my age: I worked for a clinical microbiologist selling sterile sheep blood to microbiology laboratories to make bacterial culture agar.

As it does every year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is shining a spotlight on emerging research in HIV over the course of 4 days, this year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver.

In recent years, cases of sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have been rising in the U.S., affecting all populations and prompting additional prevention efforts.

More than one-third of children aged 9 to 17 years in the United States had received one or more HPV vaccines doses as of 2022, according to a new CDC report.

Many women with HIV reported using contraceptives in a survey, but just over half remembered having a conversation with a provider about them, results showed.

I wasn’t so much hooked as I was hoodwinked!

A 1-year fellowship for senior trainees and early career infectious diseases physicians can help establish relationships with public health agencies and is an effective career development pathway, according to a study.

For the first time, the CDC has published recommendations on laboratory testing for syphilis.

The increased treatment of patients with HPV-related oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma at community cancer centers is linked to poorer survival outcomes, according to data published in Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Using MySTIRisk, an artificial intelligence-based risk assessment tool, researchers were successfully able to create infection risk scores to identify patients at higher risk for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia.