Infection Control News

WASHINGTON — Experts at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting suggested reframing conversations about HPV to encourage parents to get children vaccinated starting at age 9 years.

SEATTLE — Over the course of more than 5 years, antibiotic supply chain issues have not improved, potentially impacting patient treatment and stewardship, according to a study.

During the early rollout of dolutegravir in South Africa, women were less likely to receive the new treatment than men, despite dolutegravir being associated with improved outcomes, researchers found.

Researchers in Spain reported that nearly half of supermarket meat samples tested in a study contained multidrug-resistant or potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli.

The United States met perinatal HIV elimination goals for the first time in 2019, according to a study led by CDC researchers.

SEATTLE — A hospital replaced sink drains and traps in an ICU to stop the ongoing acquisition of multiple species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and found — paradoxically, researchers said — that it may have caused another outbreak.

WHO announced that it is partnering with other global health groups on a campaign called “The Big Catch-Up” to promote childhood vaccination amid a decline in routine immunizations in more than 100 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An FDA advisory committee voted to recommend the approval of sulbactam-durlobactam for adults with bacterial pneumonia after reviewing data from a two-part phase 3 trial that compared its safety and efficacy with colistin.

More than 40% of healthy mothers recruited for a study testing fecal transplantation for babies born by cesarean section tested positive for potentially harmful pathogens, Finnish researchers reported.

A dried blood spot test can be used to detect HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C in a single drop of blood, researchers reported at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases.