Bacterial Infections News

Febrile infants aged 22 to 60 days were less likely to be hospitalized or receive antibiotics after the AAP published updated recommendations for their management, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

The prevalence of serious head and neck infections among children doubled from 2021 to 2023, according to findings published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

A previously healthy, 32-month-old male is admitted to the hospital with an infection involving his right eye.

For the second year in a row, the CDC’s annual STI report showed an overall decline in combined cases of the three nationally reportable infections — chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.

Two AAP-recommended strategies can help physicians rule out invasive bacterial infections in febrile infants, which could reduce unnecessary lumbar punctures, but they were not as effective in younger infants, researchers found.

Cases of tularemia — a relatively rare zoonotic disease — increased by nearly 60% in the United States from 2011 to 2022 compared with the preceding decade, according to CDC researchers.

Gonorrhea is the second most common STI, with more than 82 million new infections globally each year, including 601,319 cases in the United States in 2023.

A healthy 5-year-old boy, whose only problem had been mild-to-moderate seborrheic dermatitis, is taken to his provider with the complaint of a sore on his left lower eyelid.

One in five febrile infants and toddlers with UTIs were missed by automated screening methods because they did not have pyuria, according to a study published in Pediatrics.