Pediatric ID News

Long COVID increases children’s risk for several serious conditions, although the conditions remain rare, according to findings reported in MMWR.

Exposure to young children was associated with less severe COVID-19 illness among adults, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

The CDC recently issued a health advisory alerting clinicians that parechovirus, a common childhood pathogen, is circulating in the United States.

A repeated decolonization regimen successfully allowed health care workers who were previously colonized with MRSA to safely continue working in a neonatal intensive care unit, and it also ended an outbreak, a recent study showed.

Infants born to mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy had differences in behavior and movement compared with infants who were unexposed to SARS-CoV-2, preliminary data presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry showed.

Regardless of disease severity, COVID-19 elicited immune responses in pregnant women, which in turn caused inflammation in the placenta, according to data published in Cell Reports.

Children with asthma were not at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection when compared with children without asthma, a study reported.

Researchers found that inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions were associated with avoidable adverse drug events in children, including Clostridioides difficile, and substantial health care expenditures.

Researchers said they found “compelling evidence” that the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 may cause croup in children.

An 8-year-old boy was seen collecting money by dancing in the street in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC.