Infectious Diseases in Children Current Issue

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

Table of Contents

• Bad flu seasons test US hospitals
• Should physicians prescribe antivirals to patients at high risk for flu-related complications more than 2 days after symptom onset?
• 85% hepatitis B vaccine coverage for infants: ‘It takes a lot to get there’
• ‘A call to action’: 18% of US adolescents have prediabetes
• Stewardship in the pediatrician’s office: It’s about time to get antibiotic smart Asif Noor, MD, FAAP; Ulka Kothari, MD
• 6-year-old girl presents with itchy rash on leg Michele Khurana, MD; Marissa J. Perman, MD
• A 3-year-old male develops foot pain, gingival edema James H. Brien, DO
• Children ‘particularly vulnerable’ to health threats from climate change
• FDA approves ear tube delivery system that uses local anesthesia
• ED admissions for adolescent sexual abuse double in 7 years
• Every pediatrician ‘needs to be able to recognize’ AFM
• Kids receiving liver transplants immunized at lower rate than general public
• Most adolescents are not physically active enough
• Religious vaccine exemptions increasing in US
• Researchers ‘encouraged’ by early data from universal flu vaccine study
• Seasonal severity, vaccine effectiveness not associated with flu vaccination rates
• Takeda’s tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate effective in children
• Typhoid conjugate vaccine 81% effective among kids in phase 3 trial
• ‘Shorter is better, just enough is best’ for antibiotic therapy in kids
• VIDEO: Peter Hotez, MD, PhD, discusses rise of anti-vaccine movement Eamon N. Dreisbach