Respiratory Infections News

A Bluetooth low-energy-based contact-tracing system was successful at identifying potential COVID-19 contacts with additional specific data including location, date and cumulative contact time, researchers found.

Incidence rates for several respiratory viruses, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, declined during vs. before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to study results published in Thorax.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Saltwater gargling and nasal rinsing were associated with lower hospitalization rates among people infected with SARS-CoV-2, according to a poster presentation.

Influenza activity is increasing in most parts of the United States and is at or above baseline levels in three regions, the CDC reported Monday.

Researchers identified 16 predictors of infant hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus and developed a model that clinicians can use to predict an infant’s risk, according to findings published in The Lancet Digital Health.

Surgeons used breast implants to hold a man’s heart in place during a double-lung transplant after he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal infection after years of smoking and vaping.

The highest ever reported number of tuberculosis diagnoses was reported in 2022, a feat likely due to the recovery of TB services following the COVID-19 pandemic, according to WHO’s 2023 Global TB report.

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

Almost half of health care providers in the United States do not routinely test patients born outside the U.S. for tuberculosis, despite CDC recommendations that say they should, a survey found.

Compared with the median bronchiolitis admission rate before the COVID-19 pandemic, hospitalizations among children increased during the 2022 to 2023 season, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.