Pediatric Infectious Disease

In primary care settings, the burden of RSV on young children and their guardians often varied between the countries of Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and the U.K., according to results published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine.

A previously healthy, 32-month-old male is admitted to the hospital with an infection involving his right eye.

After leaving office, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter led a decades-long effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease, and he nearly lived to see it happen.

A healthy 5-year-old boy, whose only problem had been mild-to-moderate seborrheic dermatitis, is taken to his provider with the complaint of a sore on his left lower eyelid.

Children who attend day care are 32% less likely to develop type 1 diabetes compared with children who do not go to day care, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics.

NEW YORK — Vaccine hesitancy is only one factor leading to a decrease in vaccine coverage in the United States, so pediatric providers may need to try multiple strategies to improve vaccine uptake, according to Sean O’Leary, MD, MPH, FAAP.

NEW YORK — As president of the Infectious Disease Society of America, Tina Q. Tan, MD, FAAP, FIDSA, FPIDS, said one of her top goals is to get people to understand the critical role pediatric providers play in caring for children.

NEW YORK — In this video at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Catherine Mary Healy, MBBCh, describes what she called “an exciting time” for meningococcal vaccines.

From 2010 to 2020, less than half of perinatally exposed infants were tested for hepatitis C virus, according to a study, but experts are hopeful that new early testing guidelines will ensure more infants are screened and treated.

Children born from 2011 to 2020 who were uninsured or living below the federal poverty level had lower vaccination coverage than insured children or those living at or above the federal poverty level, according to a CDC press release.