STDs News

A Texas health system moderately increased adherence to syphilis testing among pregnant people by implementing a tool that interrupted the completion of a chart if a test was not ordered, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

Final surveillance data released by the CDC on Tuesday confirmed that reported cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis increased between 2020 and 2021 in the United States, totaling more than 2.5 million.

The rate of teenagers vaccinated against HPV is improving but a significant number of parents remain hesitant about their children receiving the vaccine, a study found.

Researchers reviewed a decade of maternal and congenital syphilis cases at a Brooklyn hospital and identified two variables associated with infection: racial identities other than Black or white and low socioeconomic status.

A study of pregnant people with syphilis found that substance use during pregnancy was nearly twice as common among those who delivered an infant with congenital syphilis than among peers who did not pass the infection to their baby.

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

A 3-week-old neonate is admitted to the hospital in acute respiratory distress due to respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis. What's your diagnosis?

SAN DIEGO — Results of a scoping review showed that home-based testing for sexually transmitted infections addresses important barriers that often prevent young people from seeking care, but few programs are tailored for youth.

Only one-fifth of sexually active high school students reported receiving STI testing within the previous year, a survey found.

The years-long surge in STDs in the United States continued in 2020 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and there are indications that cases are still increasing, the CDC warned Tuesday.