Bacterial Infections News

A previously healthy 2-year-old girl presented with a 1-day history of high fever of 103°F at home, followed by some episodes of diarrhea. In less than 24 hours, she was found to be unresponsive and was taken by ambulance to the local ED.

The FDA approved the AbbVie’s Dalvance (dalbavancin) for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections in pediatric patients from birth, according to a press release.

Amoxicillin, an oral semisynthetic penicillin, is the most common antibiotic associated with childhood medication allergies.

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of life in the United States and impacted the transmission of numerous infectious diseases.

For 6 consecutive years, the CDC’s annual surveillance report for STDs has come with a dire warning: After years of decline, cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis have steadily increased.

Boston Children’s Hospital was named Tuesday as the best children’s hospital in the United States for the eighth consecutive year by U.S. News & World Report, which expanded its annual list this year to include state and regional rankings.

An investigational pentavalent vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis showed promise in a phase 2 trial conducted among toddlers in Mali, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Antibiotic use in the United States declined significantly from 1999 to 2018, though none of that decline occurred over the last decade despite a push for antimicrobial stewardship, researchers reported in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Merck’s investigational V114 pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, which includes 15 serotypes, met its primary immunogenicity and safety endpoints in two phase 3 pediatric trials, the company announced.

A 10-year-old female presented to her primary care provider’s office with some redness and painful swelling of the area about her nose and mid-face. The history of this problem began when she developed a “pimple” on the bridge of her nose 4 days earlier. After picking at the pimple for a couple of days, she noted the onset of the erythema and painful swelling, which progressively worsened. She had no fever or other new symptoms and otherwise felt well. Her provider sent her to the ED for further management of this mid-facial cellulitis.