Infection Control News

Investigational antifungal fosmanogepix has been added as a first-line treatment in recommendations penned following the emergence of an ongoing fungal meningitis outbreak, researchers said.

Infant hospitalization for congenital syphilis increased 10-fold from 2016 to 2022 in Mississippi, from 10 cases per year to 110 cases per year, according to an analysis of hospital discharge data.

SARS-CoV-2 infection accounted for roughly one in six cases of sepsis at five Massachusetts hospitals during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings from a large study of more than 430,000 patient encounters.

Salmonella — not Streptococcus pneumoniae — was the top cause of invasive bacterial infections among children with sickle cell disease in five European countries during a recent 6-year period, a study in Pediatrics reported.

Despite experts warning of the dangers of influenza, COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus and pneumococcal disease this fall and winter, survey data shows that many U.S. adults underestimate the seriousness of these infections.

Today is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to end the stigma and recognize the disproportionate and ongoing impact of HIV/AIDS on gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.

As of last year, around one in 100 children in the United States had ever had long COVID, according to survey findings reported by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Paxlovid was associated with a significant reduction in 30-day hospitalization or death among previously uninfected patients with COVID-19 who were not hospitalized, researchers found.

The CDC has awarded $262.5 million in funding to develop and implement new tools to detect, respond to and mitigate future public health emergencies such as outbreaks and pandemics.

Using wet wipes to clean bedridden patients with catheters resulted in fewer catheter-associated UTIs, researchers in Spain reported.