Infection News

There was no association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, according to a prospective cohort study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Following updated hepatitis C virus screening recommendations issued in 2020, HCV screening in pregnancy accelerated across the country, according to a retrospective cohort study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Infants born to mothers who had COVID-19 during pregnancy had differences in behavior and movement compared with infants who were unexposed to SARS-CoV-2, preliminary data presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry showed.

Regardless of disease severity, COVID-19 elicited immune responses in pregnant women, which in turn caused inflammation in the placenta, according to data published in Cell Reports.

Recent findings suggest that with HPV tests, intervals between cervical screenings can be extended to 5 years after a negative result in women aged 25 to 49 years and even longer for women aged older than 50 years.

Roughly seven out of 10 primary care clinicians would inappropriately prescribe antibiotic treatment for asymptomatic bacteriuria, even for patients without risk factors, according to researchers.

Receiving hormone replacement therapy within 6 months of a COVID-19 diagnosis was associated with a reduction in mortality, according to researchers.

Women at high risk for HIV need higher levels of plasma tenofovir to prevent infection compared with men, according to data from the largest HIV pharmacokinetics database to date.

Pregnant women with gestational diabetes, combined with periconceptional overweight or obesity, had an increased risk for severe COVID-19, according to results of a prospective observational study.

The resolution of lymphadenopathy caused by COVID-19 vaccination takes longer than initially suspected, findings showed, but researchers stressed that mammography should not be delayed.