The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.”

I reach inside the orange plastic bag and grab a fistful of unsalted mixed nuts. I draw a particular comfort from the sweet buttery cashews. I tolerate the

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“Preparedness is not built during a crisis press conference or after a pathogen has already crossed borders,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.

WHO's Department for HIV, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections has launched a global survey to inform future WHO recommendations on the treatment of gonorrhoea, specifically to ...

Author(s): Sherwood, Kyla; Zhang, Neil; David, Hollie; Dekker, Annette; Garner, Omai; Samuels, Elizabeth; Adamson, Paul | Abstract: Introduction: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV ...

A diagnostic stewardship intervention increased HIV co-testing in patients being tested for gonorrhea/chlamydia in urgent care and emergency departments. N

This page provides technical information supporting the WHO guideline on the use of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for the prevention of bacterial STIs among men who have sex with men and...

A 50-year-old man presented to the ED with a 1-month history of headache and worsening weakness of the left arm and leg. Brain MRI showed an enhancing lesion with extensive surrounding edema.

Here, the authors report metabolic activation as a potential antimicrobial strategy against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. They show that supra-physiological activation of&nbsp;L-histidine biosynthesis r...

Antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST) is central to antifungal stewardship; however, MIC results can be variable and may require careful interpretation because endpoints can be ambiguous, clinical ...

Abstract. The use of antibiotics in the hospice setting is complicated by differing patient goals, elevated side effects, and limited information regarding

Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

AbstractObjectives. Doxycycline is occasionally used as step-down therapy in periprosthetic joint infections (PJI), but evidence supporting its efficacy is

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Uncomplicated UTIs may have high recurrence rates in subsets of patients, causing a substantial burden. Increasing antimicrobial resistance in uropathogens

Abstract. An 81-year-old man prescribed isavuconazole for pulmonary fungal infection developed high serum transaminases and biopsy-confirmed hepatic necros

Eight years after it started, the final results of a large French study that offered a choice of daily or event-driven oral PrEP (using tenofovir disoproxil/emtricitabine) were presented at the Confer...

In this retrospective cohort analysis using surveillance data, appropriate serological response by 24 months was comparable among persons with late or unkn

Abstract. Reactivation of latent fungal infections poses a substantial risk for solid organ transplantation (SOT) and hematopoietic cell transplantation (H

Abstract. Secure electronic messaging within the electronic health record (EHR), such as Epic Chat, has transformed communication in hospitals by enabling

Abstract. Secure electronic messaging within the electronic health record (EHR), such as Epic Chat, has transformed communication in hospitals by enabling

As the number of cases grows to about 1,000 in the Carolinas, health care workers who’ve never seen the vaccine-preventable disease can get caught by surprise.

Mpox is a spectrum of disease caused by monkeypox virus, which is divided into clades I (with subclades Ia and Ib) and II (with subclades IIa and IIb).1 In 2022, simultaneous detection of non-travel-a...