Infection News

Married women are less likely to receive sexually transmitted disease counseling and HIV testing in the year before a pregnancy compared with unmarried women, according to research presented at IDWeek 2022.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — COVID-19 vaccination and SARS-CoV-2 infection were not associated with clinically significant changes in menstrual cycle length, data presented here confirmed.

Pfizer reported topline data from a phase 3 trial of its respiratory syncytial virus vaccine for pregnant women, which showed high vaccine efficacy in newborns.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — COVID-19 vaccination status had no impact on certain aspects of pregnancies facilitated through assisted reproductive technology, according to study data.

Pregnant people who received messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccines were protected against COVID-19-related ED and urgent care visits and hospitalization when the delta and omicron variants were predominant, according to a case-control study.

The association between maternal infection during pregnancy and children’s diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability was not causal, according to a Swedish register-based cohort study.

Results of a multisite cohort study showed that dolutegravir-based antiretroviral therapy regimens are safe among pregnant women with HIV, and they more frequently led to viral suppression than other regimens commonly used in the U.S.

Women born in the 1990s had a significantly lower HPV infection rate compared with those born a decade earlier — a finding that allowed researchers to connect greater HPV vaccination coverage with direct protection and herd immunity.

The prevalence of fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans vulvovaginal candidiasis is on the rise, according to research presented at the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology meeting, but boric acid may help.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease tolerated COVID-19 vaccines well regardless of pregnancy status, according to a poster presented at the Infectious Diseases Society for Obstetrics and Gynecology Annual Meeting.