Infection Control News

A phase 2 randomized clinical trial found that ceftolozane/tazobactam was a safe and effective option for the treatment of children with complicated UTIs, researchers reported in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal.

An FDA advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday in favor of a plan to streamline and simplify COVID-19 vaccine compositions in the United States by replacing initial, primary doses with the bivalent vaccines currently used as boosters.

Massachusetts health officials detected a novel strain of gonorrhea with reduced susceptibility or resistance to five antibiotic classes — the first of its kind in the United States.

The FDA Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee voted on Wednesday 14-1 in favor of the use of rezafungin for the treatment of candidemia and invasive candidiasis.

Long-acting cabotegravir and rilpivirine dosed every 8 weeks was effective and well tolerated, showing noninferiority to the standard 4-week dosing at 152 weeks, according to extended data from the ATLAS-2M trial.

The FDA approved the first self-test for HIV in 2012, allowing more people to know their HIV status, but unfortunately, no company has applied for FDA clearance in the decade since.

Nearly 19 million adults in the United States may have long COVID, with some individuals reporting symptoms more than 1 year following their infection, according to results of a population-based study.

There has been a significant increase in the number of people receiving home infusion therapy over the last decade, but a study found that many who deliver these services have no formal training in infection surveillance.

Children were twice as likely as adults to test positive for influenza and more likely to be hospitalized for influenza this season, according to data published in MMWR.

A study of pregnant people with syphilis found that substance use during pregnancy was nearly twice as common among those who delivered an infant with congenital syphilis than among peers who did not pass the infection to their baby.