Infectious Diseases
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Laissez-faire
While reducing antibiotic resistance is an important concern at a patient and community level, we should not become complacent about the risks to...
News
Test all perinatally exposed infants for HCV: CDC
The CDC noted that rates of HCV infections during pregnancy are on the rise.
Commentary
Upper respiratory infections: Viral testing in primary care
Test results will help guide not only treatment decisions but also infection control measures.
From the Journals
Vaccination status doesn’t impact infectivity timeline in kids
”Current policies requiring isolation for 5 days after a positive test might be appropriate, as the majority of children were not infectious by...
News from the FDA/CDC
New meningococcal vaccine wins FDA approval
The vaccine “has the potential to protect more adolescents and young adults from this severe and unpredictable disease by providing the broadest...
Conference Coverage
New RSV vaccine will cut hospitalizations, study shows
With widespread use of the vaccine, annual hospitalizations resulting from infant RSV would fall by 51%, emergency department encounters would...
Conference Coverage
Wastewater can signal upswing in flu, RSV
The new study shows that wastewater-based surveillance is a “robust and adaptable” tool for community-level surveillance of seasonal respiratory...
ID Consult
Preparing for the viral trifecta: RSV, influenza, and COVID-19
Latest News
Primary care clinicians should spearhead HIV prevention
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines call for clinicians to prescribe pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs to adolescents and adults who do...
From the Journals
New antibiotic could combat multidrug-resistant superbugs
"Since clovibactin was isolated from bacteria that could not be grown before, pathogenic bacteria have not seen such an antibiotic before and had...
Latest News
New COVID vaccines force bivalents out
The updated mRNA vaccines for 2023-2024 are being revised to include a single component that corresponds to the Omicron variant XBB.1.5.