VIDEO: How to treat common infections in athletes

BySara Kellner

ByC. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH

Fact checked byCarol L. DiBerardino, MLA, ELS

NEW YORK — In this video, C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, describes how to treat common infections in young athletes, including mononucleosis, Staphylococcus aureus and herpes simplex virus.

“It’s a really specific group of patients that we often have with specific risk factors and, honestly, some special needs as it relates to getting back to either practice or training or to performance very quickly,” Creech, professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, said at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

Creech is also a member of the Healio Pediatrics Peer Perspective Board.

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Creech CB. Infections in athletes. Presented at: Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium; Nov. 16-17, 2024; New York.

Disclosures: Creech reports receiving grant funding from the CDC, Moderna and NIH, consulting for CommenceBio, Debiopharm, GSK, Guidepoint Global, Premier Healthcare, Sanofi and TDCowen and receiving royalties from UpToDate.

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