Infection Control News

The CDC issued an alert to health care providers in the United States last week to be on the lookout for measles after receiving reports of 23 confirmed cases between Dec. 1 and Jan. 23.

Reported cases of gonorrhea in the United States declined for the first time in at least a decade in 2022 while cases of chlamydia remained stagnant and syphilis continued its years-long surge, data released by the CDC on Tuesday showed.

Researchers estimated that hundreds of small foodborne disease outbreaks may go undetected in the United States each year, based on a statistical analysis of data from the last 2-plus decades.

A single dose of a typhoid conjugate vaccine provided protection for at least 4 years among children aged 9 months to 12 years enrolled in a phase 3 trial in Malawi, according to results published in The Lancet.

Closing the toilet lid before flushing does not lessen the risk of contaminating bathroom surfaces with viruses, researchers found.

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.

On Tuesday, the CDC asked the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee to clarify its recommendations for protecting health care personnel, patients and others from respiratory infection transmission.

Current practices for latent tuberculosis infection testing may be missing high-risk patients, according to a study assessing factors associated with testing and positivity, researchers said.

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