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C. Difficile Infections In Pediatric Oncology Patients May Have Significant Impact On Hospital Stay Length And Adherence To Chemotherapy Plans, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/7, Lee) reports on a retrospective cohort study in which “clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) in pediatric oncology patients was found to have a significant impact on length of hospital stay and affected adherence to sch...

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Unrecognized Shedding Of Treponema Pallidum Found Occurring In MSM With Early Syphilis And In Those With Secondary Syphilis, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/7, van Paridon) reports on research finding that “unrecognized shedding of Treponema pallidum has been found to be occurring in men who have sex with men (MSM) who have early syphilis and more frequently in patients with seco...

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Trial Finds Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia Not Reduced By Suvratoxumab For Patients In ICU Receiving Mechanical Ventilation

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/7, Nye) reports on a phase 2 pilot trial in which “among patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) who were receiving mechanical ventilation, the incidence of Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia was not found to be reduced by suv...

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Phase 2 Trial Shows Benefit From Investigational Pentavalent Vaccine For Neisseria Meningitidis

Healio (6/7, Downey) reports on a phase 2 trial in Mali that “showed promise” for “an investigational pentavalent vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis.” Specifically, the trail showed “that a single dose of the vaccine, NmCV-5, ‘elicited immune responses th...

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US Daily Coronavirus Infections Averaging Around 14,500 Over The Past Week

CNBC (6/7, Rattner) reports, “The U.S. is reporting an average of about 14,500 daily infections over the past week...as average daily cases have held below 15,000 for three days straight.” Meanwhile, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report “...

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Decline In Kawasaki Disease Rates In South Korea May Be Due To Pandemic Prevention Efforts, Research Suggests

Healio (6/7, Welsh) reports on research suggesting that “the decrease in Kawasaki disease rates in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic may be attributable to pandemic prevention efforts, including mask-wearing, hand-washing and physical distancing.”...

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Scientists Ask Why So Little Attention Paid To Malaria During Pandemic

The Washington Post (6/7, Wilkins, Paquette) reports that in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the “surge of global resources that fast-tracked vaccines ... scientists in Burkina Faso aim to harness that momentum to end what they see as the region’...

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Slowing Demand For COVID-19 Vaccines Leads To Renewed Interest In Testing

The Wall Street Journal (6/6, Wernau, Subscription Publication) reports, due to slowing demand for COVID-19 vaccines in the US, companies and governments are preparing to continue COVID-19 testing as needed for the foreseeable future.

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Post-Hoc Analysis Indicates Patients Treated With Isavuconazole Had OS Of 82% At 42 Days and 70% At 84 Days, Study Suggests

Healio (6/4, Stulpin) reported, “Patients treated with isavuconazole as primary or salvage therapy for invasive fungal sinusitis experienced overall survival rates of 82% at 42 days and 70% at 84 days.” The data came “from a post-hoc analysis of two phase...

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Extension Of Infusion-Set Use To Seven Days Among Patients With CVAD Or PAC Reduces Costs, Study Finds

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/4, Nye) reported, “Extension of infusion-set use to 7 days among patients with a central venous access device (CVAD) or peripheral artery catheter (PAC) was found to reduce health care costs and nurse workloads without increa...

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Review Of Dual-Resistant Invasive Meningococcal Disease Cases Indicates Need For Effective Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Programs

Infectious Disease Advisor (6/4, Nye) reported, “Recent cases of dual-resistant invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in the United States indicate that there is a need for effective antimicrobial resistance surveillance programs.” Researches sequenced “me...

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Lyme-Carrying Ticks Increasingly Found At California Beaches, Researchers Say

The Los Angeles Times (6/6, Rust) reports, “Millions of people enjoy hanging out at California beaches in the warmer months. So do ticks carrying Lyme disease.” That’s “one finding from four years of field work in California’s San Francisco Bay Area and n...

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Patients With RA Who Carry Specific Allele Of MUC5B Gene May Have About Double The Risk Of Developing ILD When Compared To Noncarriers, Study Suggests

Rheumatology News (6/5, Bosworth) reported, “Patients with rheumatoid arthritis [RA] who carry a specific allele of the gene MUC5B have about double the risk of developing interstitial lung disease [ILD] when compared with noncarriers,” investigators conc...

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June 5 Was 40th Anniversary Of First Report Of AIDS

CNN (6/5, Kaur) reported on the fortieth anniversary of “the first time that acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)...was reported in the US” on June 5, 1981. President Biden “said he’s asked Congress to provide $670 million to fight new HIV cases by i...

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Previous COVID-19 Infection May Reduce Risk Of New Infection Substantially For Up To 10 Months, Study Indicates

Reuters (6/3, Smout) reports on research finding that “previous COVID-19 infection substantially reduces the risk of a new infection for up to 10 months afterwards.” The research “found that care home residents who had been previously infected with COVID-...

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Structural Changes To Dopamine Transporter May Contribute To Parkinson’s Disease-Like Symptoms, Fruit Fly Study Suggests

Parkinson’s News Today (6/3, Pinto) reports researchers found in fruit flies that “structural changes – caused by a rare genetic mutation – to a protein called a dopamine transporter, which conveys dopamine into cells, may contribute to Parkinson’s diseas...

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Investigators Discover Two Genetic Markers That Could Influence Response To TNF Inhibitors Among Patients With RA

Medwire News (6/3, Piper) reports investigators have discovered “two genetic markers that could influence response to tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).” These “two markers – LINC02549 rs7767069 single nu...

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UK Scientists Make Artificial Genome For Bacteria That Makes It Immune To Viral Infection

STAT (6/3, Molteni) reports, “Two years ago, scientists in Britain swapped out the DNA of the bacteria Escerichia coli for a genetic coding program that was entirely human-made.” Now, the same group has “reported in Science that with continued tinkering,...

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Study Finds Bacterial Co-Infections From COVID-19 Were Rare

MedPage Today (6/3, Hamza) reports on research finding that “bacterial co-infections from COVID-19 were rare, few were of clinical importance and most were secondary infections.” The study included “over 8,600 patients with microbiologic culture results,”...

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South African Researchers Identify Potentially Dangerous COVID-19 Mutations In Woman With Uncontrolled HIV

The Los Angeles Times (6/3, Healy) reports, “Researchers in South Africa have just documented an ominous development: the collision of the pandemic with HIV/AIDS.” They have also “uncovered potentially dangerous coronavirus mutations in a 36-year-old woma...

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C. Difficile Infections In Pediatric Oncology Patients May Have Significant Impact On Hospital Stay Length And Adherence To Chemotherapy Plans, Study Finds

Unrecognized Shedding Of Treponema Pallidum Found Occurring In MSM With Early Syphilis And In Those With Secondary Syphilis, Study Finds

Trial Finds Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia Not Reduced By Suvratoxumab For Patients In ICU Receiving Mechanical Ventilation

Phase 2 Trial Shows Benefit From Investigational Pentavalent Vaccine For Neisseria Meningitidis

US Daily Coronavirus Infections Averaging Around 14,500 Over The Past Week

Decline In Kawasaki Disease Rates In South Korea May Be Due To Pandemic Prevention Efforts, Research Suggests

Scientists Ask Why So Little Attention Paid To Malaria During Pandemic

Slowing Demand For COVID-19 Vaccines Leads To Renewed Interest In Testing

Post-Hoc Analysis Indicates Patients Treated With Isavuconazole Had OS Of 82% At 42 Days and 70% At 84 Days, Study Suggests

Extension Of Infusion-Set Use To Seven Days Among Patients With CVAD Or PAC Reduces Costs, Study Finds

Review Of Dual-Resistant Invasive Meningococcal Disease Cases Indicates Need For Effective Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Programs

Lyme-Carrying Ticks Increasingly Found At California Beaches, Researchers Say

Patients With RA Who Carry Specific Allele Of MUC5B Gene May Have About Double The Risk Of Developing ILD When Compared To Noncarriers, Study Suggests

June 5 Was 40th Anniversary Of First Report Of AIDS

Previous COVID-19 Infection May Reduce Risk Of New Infection Substantially For Up To 10 Months, Study Indicates

Structural Changes To Dopamine Transporter May Contribute To Parkinson’s Disease-Like Symptoms, Fruit Fly Study Suggests

Investigators Discover Two Genetic Markers That Could Influence Response To TNF Inhibitors Among Patients With RA

UK Scientists Make Artificial Genome For Bacteria That Makes It Immune To Viral Infection

Study Finds Bacterial Co-Infections From COVID-19 Were Rare

South African Researchers Identify Potentially Dangerous COVID-19 Mutations In Woman With Uncontrolled HIV