Infection

In a survey of health care personnel, one-third of registered nurses and more than one-quarter of physicians reported making at least one error in adhering to guidance for personal protective equipment in the previous 2 weeks.

Prenatal vaccination protects infants from COVID-19 up to age 6 months, real-world study findings published in JAMA Network Open suggest. The study found that vaccination prior to pregnancy did not protect babies from the disease.

Moxidectin was noninferior to ivermectin for patients with strongyloidiasis, according to data published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The annual American Society for Dermatologic Surgery meeting was recently held in Chicago, bringing together a wide variety of clinical knowledge, techniques and news.

In-house PCR testing on admission for the detection Candida auris enabled researchers to identify more cases on admission and lowered rates of hospital-onset C. auris, a recent study showed.

In this episode of Meeting Mic, we bring you Healio’s top headlines from ACG 2023.

Approximately 20% of patients with solid organ transplants, rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases or lymphoid cancers fail to mount a response to three or more COVID-19 vaccine doses, according to data published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

A test developed to detect Cache Valley virus and other similar and uncommon viruses yielded fast and accurate results, which could make testing for these viruses easier in the future, according to a study.

Adding vancomycin to cefazolin prophylaxis was not superior to placebo for the prevention of surgical-site infections among patients without known MRSA infection undergoing joint arthroplasty, researchers found.

SARS-CoV-2 infection accounted for roughly one in six cases of sepsis at five Massachusetts hospitals during the first 33 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings from a large study of more than 430,000 patient encounters.