Infectious Disease News

LOS ANGELES — One-third of patients with a carbapenemase-producing organism died, according to a study conducted at nearly a dozen New York hospitals.

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.

Many adults in the United States are behind on their health screenings and immunizations, according to new survey data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Access to pre-exposure prophylaxis remains insufficient, especially among Black, Hispanic and Medicare-insured populations, results of an analysis presented at IDWeek suggested.

An electronic health record order set that preselected shorter antibiotic courses for acute otitis media cut antibiotic use for pediatric ear infections in half, according to findings presented at IDWeek.

In our prior blog post, we discussed the frequent need to separate, from a legal and financial perspective, the real property from the practice in order to consummate a practice transaction with a private equity buyer.

A significant number of Medicaid-insured infants infected with HIV in the first year of their life did not receive postnatal antiretroviral prophylaxis, a study presented at IDWeek showed.

The proportion of children dying from sepsis is lower than it was 20 years ago, but Black children are still at a significantly higher risk than white children, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

LOS ANGELES — Healio is on-site again for IDWeek, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Oct. 16-19.

Cockroaches contributed to an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae in an ICU over the course of 20 months, according to a study that linked outbreak strains to strains found in the insects.