Recurrent Infection

Doxycycline reduced the risk for Clostridioides difficile infection by almost half compared with azithromycin among patients hospitalized with community-acquire pneumonia who had a C. difficile infection in the past year, a study found.

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored challenges in the prevention and treatment of health care-associated infections.

Recurrent candidemia was reported in 6% of people with prior candidemia, with many patients reporting recent hospitalization, hepatitis C infection and being of younger age, according to a study published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Research published in Pediatrics suggests that infants aged 60 days and younger with bacteremic UTI could receive shorter courses of parenteral antibiotics without the risk for readmission or recurrent infection.

Children with more than one febrile UTI are at a significantly increased risk for kidney scarring, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers wrote that the risk for scarring increases with each additional febrile infection.