Bacterial Infections News

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month.

Pediatricians often face the challenge of diagnostic accuracy in conjunctivitis cases. Compared with the common clinical syndromes of otitis media and pharyngitis, conjunctivitis presents less frequently and does not require systemic antibiotics. Nonetheless, not every single red or pink eye needs antibiotic drops.

Monoclonal antibodies isolated from children with invasive Staphylococcal aureus were capable of broad neutralization against distantly related variants of the two-component leukotoxin, LukAB, researchers reported.

A 14-day-old female was taken to an urgent care clinic with multiple paronychia, involving a thumb and both great toes, that began 5 days earlier.

Community-acquired pneumonia, or CAP, is an inflammation of the lungs caused by a microbe. It is a lower respiratory tract infection acquired in the community as opposed to hospital-acquired or nosocomial pneumonia.

A healthy 12-day old female seems to suddenly develop painless bilateral swelling of both the preauricular areas and the right postauricular area. There is no fever or other concerning symptoms, and her appetite is normal and unchanged.

An average of nearly half a million Americans are estimated to have received a diagnosis of Lyme disease each year from 2010 to 2018, according to a new analysis published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

A previously healthy 10-month-old male is taken to the local ED with fever and congestion for 3 days. He is diagnosed with an upper respiratory tract infection, or URI, and treated symptomatically without antimicrobials.

Acute sinusitis is inflammation of mucosa lining of one or more paranasal sinuses. In children, most cases begin as a viral infection that extends from nasal mucosa (rhinitis) onto the mucosal lining of paranasal sinuses (sinusitis).

In this video, Jeffrey R. Starke, MD, infection control officer at Texas Children’s Hospital, discusses testing and treatment strategies for tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis infections.