Explore the latest in infectious diseases, including community-acquired and nosocomial disease, antibiotic use and stewardship, and more.
This systematic review examines reports about immunoglobulin G4鈥搑elated pachymeningitis to review and synthesize information about its clinical presentation, investigation findings, and prognosis to better understand diagnosis and management.
This randomized clinical trial investigates if behavioral nudges delivered electronically that highlight the cardiovascular benefits of vaccination improve influenza vaccine uptake in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
This Viewpoint discusses a sector-wide approach to hepatitis C virus elimination, including not only jails and prisons, but also community supervision and alternatives to incarceration programs.
This noninferiority randomized clinical trial investigates whether administering tenofovir to pregnant individuals with hepatitis B virus beginning at gestational week 16 is noninferior to administering tenofovir beginning at gestational week 28 in preventing mother-to-child transmission.
This study assesses artemisinin partial resistance, Pfkelch13 variations, and malaria recrudescence in Ugandan children with complicated malaria.
This case series used data on pediatric COVID-19 cases reported to California鈥檚 disease surveillance system to estimate the association between eligibility for elementary school and COVID-19 incidence.
This cross-sectional study examines the content and quality of information about urinary tract infections and asymptomatic bacteriuria on publicly available websites.
A 20-year-old Chinese woman was experiencing fever, malaise, headache, nausea, vomiting, and neck stiffness for 2 weeks. Further examination revealed inflammation, vitritis and cystoid macular edema, tortuous dilatation of retinal venous vessels with fluorescence leakage, and hyperfluorescence in the optic disc. What would you do next?
This cross-sectional study identifies hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions, and in-hospital deaths associated with respiratory syncytial virus in US adults from 2016 through 2023.
This Viewpoint describes what dermatologists should know about doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) for bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention, specifically syphilis, chlamydia, and gonorrhea.
This crossover randomized clinical trial investigates whether air purifiers with high-efficiency particulate filters reduce the incidence of acute respiratory infections in residential aged-care facilities.
This Medical News article discusses the first high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance at the United Nations since 2016 and a new report on the global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance.
This cohort study evaluates the performance of a risk stratification model for resistant gram-negative bacilli infection among patients with sepsis.
This Viewpoint investigates the lack of a comprehensive infectious diseases alert system in the US and proposes solutions for such a system, including linking changing threat levels to specific response actions.
This decision analytical model assesses whether the quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine was associated with reduced invasive meningococcal disease among US youths and how the decrease of invasive meningococcal disease might have evolved in the absence of vaccination efforts.
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