Infectious Diseases News

The first known U.S. case of an mpox clade that has historically been more transmissible and deadly was detected in California in a person who had recently returned from travel to Eastern Africa, according to health officials.

One person has died and 15 have been hospitalized in a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli linked to consuming organic carrots, the CDC announced.

WASHINGTON — Withholding Janus kinase or interleukin-17 inhibitors from patients with rheumatoid arthritis or spondyloarthritis does not significantly benefit COVID-19 booster response, according to data presented at ACR Convergence 2024.

NEW YORK — In this video, Jacob R. McLean, DO, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, recaps his presentation on adolescent STI screening and treatment at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

NEW YORK — In this video, C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, describes how to treat common infections in young athletes, including mononucleosis, Staphylococcus aureus and herpes simplex virus.

NEW YORK — In this video at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Catherine Mary Healy, MBBCh, describes what she called “an exciting time” for meningococcal vaccines.

A New York hospital expanded its Candida auris screening protocols after a patient tested positive for the fungal pathogen 2 months after being admitted, catching other cases that would have previously been missed, according to a study.

Measles cases increased globally by 20% in 2023, and roughly 22 million children missed their first measles vaccine dose, according to the CDC and WHO’s annual global measles report.

Researchers found evidence of artemisinin partial resistance in Ugandan children with complicated malaria, according to data presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Children who have multiple long-term conditions are as almost three times more likely to die after COVID-19 compared with children who do not, according to data published in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.