Respiratory Infection

In early December, health officials in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, announced that an unknown illness had emerged and had already killed dozens of patients, with hundreds more sick.

Adults with a schizophrenia spectrum disorder had increased risk for severe infection outcomes while exposed to antipsychotics compared with nonexposure periods, according to a study published in The Lancet Psychiatry.

Having a chronic respiratory infection in addition to bronchiectasis heightened the risk for an exacerbation and hospitalization within 2 years of diagnosis, according to results published in BMC Pulmonary Medicine.

Routine childhood vaccinations prevented more than 1.1 million deaths among children born during the past 30 years in the United States, CDC researchers found.

Adults with bronchiectasis had high total annual health care costs, and the cost of hospitalization was a major contributor to this amount, according to findings published in CHEST.

The odds for symptom resolution after a 14-day antibiotic treatment for nonsevere exacerbation of bronchiectasis increased among Indigenous children and children with low cough scores, according to results published in CHEST.

Together, a group of viruses nicknamed “FLiRT” have emerged to become the most common SARS-CoV-2 variants in the country.

SAN DIEGO — Amikacin for 6 months improved respiratory symptoms in adults with newly diagnosed or recurrent Mycobacterium avium complex lung disease, according to a presentation at the American Thoracic Society International Conference.