Infection Control News

HHS released a national plan to reduce the incidence of vector-borne diseases in the United States, which has doubled over the last 20 years.

Amoxicillin remains effective against acute otitis media, according to the results of a small study published in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society.

People with HIV continue to have a higher risk of invasive meningococcal disease compared with people without HIV regardless of the 2016 recommendation that people with HIV receive routine vaccination for invasive meningococcal disease.

Influenza vaccine manufacturers in the United States said this week that they have plans to remove a potentially extinct influenza B lineage from their vaccines and offer only trivalent shots next season.

An investigation linked recent cases of Listeria infection in the United States to older cases dating back to 2014, connecting them as one continuous outbreak linked to recalled dairy products, the CDC said.

For the first time, the CDC has published recommendations on laboratory testing for syphilis.

Infants aged younger than 3 months and children with a history of prematurity experience the highest rates of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus, according to study findings published in Pediatrics.

Using MySTIRisk, an artificial intelligence-based risk assessment tool, researchers were successfully able to create infection risk scores to identify patients at higher risk for HIV, syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia.

Cameroon became the first of a dozen countries that will participate in a wider rollout of a WHO-approved malaria vaccine in Africa.

The updated COVID-19 vaccines were approximately 54% effective against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and offered protection against JN.1 and XBB viral lineages, according to early estimates published Thursday by the CDC.