MRSA News

We checked in with CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, for an update on the agency’s efforts to modernize the nation’s disease surveillance and data systems and improve how the CDC communicates with the public and physicians.

Participation in the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting is back to pre-COVID-19 levels of engagement, according to one of the event’s program chairs.

Three pediatric hospitals that discontinued contact precautions for MRSA did not see an associated increase in MRSA over the course of the next 4 years, according to researchers published in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

Researchers linked more than 1 million deaths in Africa in 2019 to antimicrobial resistance, more than half of which were linked to just four pathogens.

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will bid farewell this year to a couple of longtime presenters.

WASHINGTON — The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday named Anthony S. Fauci, MD, FAAP, an honorary fellow for what it called his “decades of distinguished leadership, dedication, wisdom and service to children and families.”

One dose of the 9-valent HPV vaccine generated a sustained immune response against two prominent cancer-causing types of the virus for up to 2 years, according study findings published in Pediatrics.

ORLANDO — A children’s hospital used decolonization protocols to drive down rates of MRSA in three intensive care units by more than 40%, according to data reported at a medical conference.

The 35th annual Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will be held Nov. 19 and 20 in New York.