Infectious Diseases News

LOS ANGELES — Public health officials could have detected H5 influenza in wastewater days before highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed in cattle earlier this year, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

LOS ANGELES — One-third of patients with a carbapenemase-producing organism died, according to a study conducted at nearly a dozen New York hospitals.

Many adults in the United States are behind on their health screenings and immunizations, according to new survey data from the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Access to pre-exposure prophylaxis remains insufficient, especially among Black, Hispanic and Medicare-insured populations, results of an analysis presented at IDWeek suggested.

An electronic health record order set that preselected shorter antibiotic courses for acute otitis media cut antibiotic use for pediatric ear infections in half, according to findings presented at IDWeek.

A significant number of Medicaid-insured infants infected with HIV in the first year of their life did not receive postnatal antiretroviral prophylaxis, a study presented at IDWeek showed.

The proportion of children dying from sepsis is lower than it was 20 years ago, but Black children are still at a significantly higher risk than white children, according to a study presented at IDWeek.

LOS ANGELES — Healio is on-site again for IDWeek, which is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from Oct. 16-19.

Cockroaches contributed to an outbreak of multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae in an ICU over the course of 20 months, according to a study that linked outbreak strains to strains found in the insects.

Lenacapavir injections, administered twice yearly, reduced HIV infections by 96% in a gender-diverse population, according to study findings presented at the HIV Research for Prevention conference.