Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue

The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Diseases in Children.

Table of Contents

• Outpatient overprescribing: ‘Cultural shift’ needed to spare antibiotics
• New flu guidelines emphasize testing, treatment of high-risk patients
• New guidance promotes vaccination access for pregnant women during epidemics
• Wheat oral immunotherapy shows promise
• Should reviews of physicians be allowed on Yelp?
• Ebola outbreak in DRC ‘not even close’ to being controlled
• 53% of state immunization bills propose to increase access to exemptions
• Bacteria in nose may give insight to duration of infants’ cold symptoms
• Bacterial meningitis score inadequate in infants aged 0 to 60 days
• Experts ‘concerned’ about spread of Asian longhorned tick in US
• Flu, pertussis vaccines safe during pregnancy, regardless of trimester
• Injuries top leading causes of pediatric, adolescent deaths
• Later start times give teens more sleep, better school performance
• Low-birth-weight infants at increased risk for malaria
• Midturbinate swabs comparable to nasopharyngeal swabs for detecting RSV in infants
• Researchers look for more restrictive AFM diagnostic criteria to identify cases
• Mupirocin successfully decolonizes NICU patients with S. aureus
• Noxafil use up by more than 20% per year in hospitalized children
• Young infants at risk for severe pertussis despite acellular vaccine programs
• Breastfeeding support for hospital employees increasing, except child care
• Cancer survivors likely to receive HPV vaccine after provider recommendation
• More than 50% of US infants have cow's milk allergy
• Nearly half of families report food insecurity during child’s hospitalization
• Sucking on infant’s pacifier may help parents prevent allergies in their kids
• Use of supplements in pediatrics: What are your patients taking? Edward A. Bell, PharmD, BCPS
• A previously healthy, 4-year-old female with unusual skin lesions and mouth sores James H. Brien, DO