Pediatric ID News

An investigation into a Salmonella outbreak in Canada linked to pet bearded dragons revealed a multinational outbreak that included a dozen cases in the United States in 2021 and 2022, researchers reported.

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.

Experts have published the first new criteria for diagnosing pediatric sepsis and septic shock since 2005.

Three or more doses of maternal COVID-19 vaccine significantly enhance antibody concentrations in preterm infants compared with two or fewer doses, according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

COVID-19 vaccination reduces the risk for long COVID in children, according to findings from a study of more than 1 million children published in Pediatrics.

Treating infants with azithromycin at well-child visits did not reduce mortality during a yearslong study in Burkina Faso, according to findings published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Nearly one in five patients diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children based on a 2020 definition would not be diagnosed with the illness using an updated definition, researchers reported in Pediatrics.

The FDA said this week that it is working with a French pharmaceutical company to temporarily import into the United States an antibiotic that can treat syphilis as a way to address the country’s penicillin shortage.

COVID-19 vaccination provided strong and durable protection among children and adolescents during two strong waves of infections, according to real-world study findings reported in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The percentage of girls and boys who initiated the HPV vaccine series before age 13 increased in recent years, according to study findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.