Pediatric Infectious Disease

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Red Book editor David W. Kimberlin, MD, talks about updates coming to the 2024 edition of the AAP’s guide for pediatric infectious diseases.

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will bid farewell this year to a couple of longtime presenters.

NEW YORK — Children that contracted COVID-19 are at risk for developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome, which can present cutaneously, according to a poster presentation here.

As of last year, around one in 100 children in the United States had ever had long COVID, according to survey findings reported by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

A study of more than 30,000 hospitalized children with SARS-CoV-2 infection found that ICU admissions for COVID-19 decreased over the course of the pandemic but ventilatory and oxygen support for the youngest children did not.

The CDC has recommended that infants be immunized with a monoclonal antibody against respiratory syncytial virus.

One in six toddlers in the United States did not complete the vaccination series for seven recommended childhood vaccines in 2019, the year before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Five male infants in South Africa who were born with HIV were able to maintain undetectable viral loads for months despite low adherence to ART, according to researchers at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science.

Toni Darville, MD, is chief of pediatric infectious disease and vice chair of research in the department of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Pedro “Tony” A. Piedra, MD, is a pediatric infectious disease physician-scientist affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.