Infection Control News

PHILADELPHIA — In this video, Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA, discusses a panel he moderated at the World Anti-Microbial Resistance Congress on how to move the topic of antimicrobial resistance to the forefront in conversations about preparedness.

Findings from a new study suggest that fit tests for N95 masks can safely be done every 3 years instead of every year, researchers reported.

A fourth dose of a bivalent COVID-19 vaccine provided added protection for previously infected and SARS-CoV-2 naïve patients compared with a fourth dose of a monovalent vaccine, researchers in Singapore found.

On Sept. 1, the CDC issued a health advisory concerning an increased rate of infections in the United States of a flesh-eating bacterium called Vibrio vulnificus.

A study of 10-year follow-up data showed no cases of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia and few cases of HPV infection among almost 1,300 boys and girls who received the 9-valent HPV vaccine, according to results published in Pediatrics.

HPV vaccine coverage in U.S. teenagers did not increase in 2022 for the first time in a decade, according to data published in MMWR.

CDC experts argued recently that the time is right to revisit the need for a vaccine against West Nile virus, which remains the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been described by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, as “the most catastrophic acute infectious disease outbreak” in more than a century.

Several people contracted Aeromonas infections during a Tough Mudder race in California, health officials confirmed.

Inpatient antimicrobial use in U.S. hospitals increased both overall and among specific commonly used antibiotics during peak waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported.