Infection Control News

Medicine was an interesting thought as I was growing up with no medical people in my family.

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.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, MSc, said Wednesday that he will convene an emergency committee to determine if the increasing spread of mpox in Africa represents a public health emergency of international concern.

A new study provides the first evidence that illicit fentanyl use may play a role in hepatitis C transmission among injection drug users, according to researchers.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America released updated guidelines on complicated intra-abdominal infections for the first time since 2010.

Two experimental HIV vaccine regimens failed to reduce infections in a 3-year trial in eastern and southern Africa compared with participants who were taking a placebo, some of whom were on oral PrEP, according to a study.

Researchers found that lenacapavir, an investigational long-acting antiretroviral drug, prevented 100% of new HIV infections among cisgender women in Africa who received injections every 26 weeks.