Pediatric ID News

TORONTO — Shorter courses of antibiotics were associated with increased odds of reinfection and death among infants treated in the NICU for Escherichia coli bacteremia who were not evaluated for meningitis, a study showed.

Most children in three rural Alabama counties live without connections to centralized sewer systems, placing them at risk for certain infections, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

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.

The number of global measles cases nearly doubled in 1 year after a decline in vaccine coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts.

The world’s response to outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived polio has slowed over the past decade, according to finding presented at the CDC’s Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference.

A new tool could help pediatricians identify infants most at risk for severe respiratory syncytial virus, according to research published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

A CDC investigator described how Colorado was able to prevent a measles outbreak after identifying an infected traveler who passed through the Denver airport, a children’s hospital and a community gathering while infectious.

One subcutaneous dose of an experimental monoclonal antibody protected children from infection and clinical malaria during a 6-month malaria season in Mali, according to phase 2 results published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

WHO recently updated its definition of airborne transmission, expanding the list of pathogens that can be spread through the air.

More than half of people expecting a baby said in a survey that they were “very likely” to get vaccinated against respiratory syncytial virus during pregnancy, researchers reported.