Pediatric ID News

DENVER — Long-acting injectable ART administered every 8 weeks safely suppresses HIV in adolescents, according to research presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

DENVER — Syphilis is often asymptomatic. Increased testing of at-risk patients — especially if a new rash or welt is spotted on their body — could help catch more cases, an expert said here.

DENVER — A universal opt-out ED syphilis screening program led to a significant increase in syphilis testing and case diagnoses among pregnant patients, researchers reported.

The latest COVID-19 vaccines reduce the risk for hospitalization or visits to an ED or urgent care by around 50%, according to interim data published in MMWR.

The CDC said Friday that people with COVID-19 no longer have to isolate for 5 days if they are showing certain signs of improvement — the first time in more than 2 years that the guidance has been updated.

In a new clinical report, the AAP provides strategies to help pediatricians and other health care providers address parental vaccine concerns and increase immunization rates.

An early analysis of data from the 2023-2024 respiratory season showed that cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae are on the rebound in the United States after declining during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data reported in MMWR.

Bucking CDC guidance, Florida’s top health official said parents and guardians can decide for themselves whether to send unvaccinated students to an elementary school with an ongoing measles outbreak.

Diagnostic stewardship, along with targeted prevention efforts and a testing and treatment clinical care pathway, reduced hospital-onset cases of Clostridioides difficile by more than 50% in a children’s hospital, researchers reported.

More than one-third of children aged 9 to 17 years in the United States had received one or more HPV vaccines doses as of 2022, according to a new CDC report.