Infection Control News

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has updated its guidance on the treatment of antimicrobial-resistant gram-negative infections and said it aims to update the guidelines annually to keep up with evolving resistance and new research.

People with virally suppressed HIV who are hospitalized with community acquired pneumonia do not have a higher mortality risk than people without HIV, according to a study.

The FDA has granted NOWDiagnostics authorization to market their at-home, over-the-counter antibody test that detects a potential syphilis infection, according to a press release.

A multicenter study identified factors associated with mortality among patients with Candida auris bloodstream infection.

WHO on Wednesday declared the spread of mpox in Africa to be a global public health emergency.

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A dose of Pfizer’s respiratory syncytial virus vaccine was well tolerated and generated a strong immune response among adults aged 59 years or younger, the company announced in a press release.

The incidence of heart attack and stroke is lower among people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 compared with before vaccination and people who have not received a vaccine, according to a study.

Diagnostic stewardship helped reduce the number of inappropriate tests ordered for Clostridioides difficile by 20 percentage points in a Florida health care system, according to a study.

Although daptomycin remains more expensive than vancomycin, it is a “suitable alternative” to daptomycin for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy because it results in less health care utilization, researchers reported.