Vaccination

The FDA on Monday cleared Qiagen’s 1-hour PCR test for meningitis and encephalitis, which the company said could help treat meningococcal disease more quickly.

More than half of children with acute otitis media and 32% of children with upper respiratory infections tested positive for multiple pathogens in their nasal passages, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

There was a “marked decrease” in COVID-19 vaccine uptake among nursing home personnel last season, according to researchers, who attributed the decline to cost and the end of the CMS’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement in mid-2023.

LOS ANGELES — Neutralizing antibodies against mpox generated by the Jynneos vaccine were short lived — lasting less than a year — if patients had never received a smallpox vaccine as children, researchers said.

A CDC advisory committee on Thursday voted unanimously to “harmonize” serogroup B meningococcal vaccine recommendations for healthy adolescents and young adults and children who have a higher risk for infection.

The simultaneous administration of adjuvant zoster and influenza vaccines posed no additional safety risks in older adults, results from a randomized study showed.

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A CDC advisory committee on Wednesday recommended that adults aged 65 years or older and anyone who is at least moderately immunocompromised receive a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine this season.

Another monoclonal antibody for preventing respiratory syncytial virus disease in infants could enter the market as early as next year, based on the results of two studies presented at IDWeek, Merck said.

LOS ANGELES — Interim data from a phase 2 clinical trial of the Jynneos mpox vaccine showed that it is safe and generates an antibody response in adolescents that is similar to the response seen in adults, researchers reported.