George Abraham, MD, offers insight into where the United States currently stands with regard to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine development, barriers to care in various patient populations, and the evolving roles of infectious disease specialists.
Study authors compared the effect of aqueous olanexidine and aqueous povidone-iodine on the incidence of surgical site infection following clean-contaminated surgery.
Study authors assessed the efficacy and safety of cefiderocol vs best available therapy in adults with serious carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative infections.
Study authors assessed the rate of vertical transmission of cytomegalovirus in pregnant women depending on with CMV infections are acquired periconceptionally or within the first trimester.
Study authors investigated the persistence of immune response with a single-dose of inactivated Japanese encephalitis vaccine and the interchangeability with a live-attenuated vaccine in healthy children aged 1 to 15 years.
In order to investigate the risk of psychiatric disease, the percentage of psychiatric hospital inpatient and outpatient contacts, and the receipt of prescribed psychiatric medications among patients in Denmark with Lyme neuroborreliosis was compared with individuals in a matched comparison cohort.
Investigators evaluated the relationship between delay of meropenem and vaborbactam therapy in patients with gram-negative bacterial infections and negative clinical outcomes.
Investigators assessed the incidence of acute kidney injury in patients requiring vancomycin and antipseudomonal agents, particularly comparing piperacillin-tazobactam vs cefepime in combination with vancomycin.
Study authors measured seroprevalence of measles and mumps among cancer patients and compared seroprevalence based on demographic, disease, and treatment subgroups.
Study authors sought to determine the effect of antibiotic use and immune checkpoint inhibitors on overall survival, profession-free survival, response rate, and progressive disease rate in cancer patients.
The incidence of acute kidney injury in patients treated with vancomycin outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy was assessed, and risk factors for AKI in this population were identified.
Authors assessed the association between iciHHV-6 and spontaneous abortion, as well as the pregnancy histories of mothers in families with iciHHV-6, to determine if paternal origin is more common than maternal origin.
Study authors assessed the emergence of presatovir-resistant substitutions in the treatment of RSV, and the potential effects on in-vitro susceptibility, viral fitness in replication assays, and outcomes.
Study authors assessed the association between mortality and age, history of cardiac surgery, and other risk factors in patients undergoing surgery for infective endocarditis.
Study authors compared the use of prophylactic negative pressure wound therapy with standard wound dressing after cesarean delivery in women with obesity.
Atoltivimab, maftivimab, and odesivimab-ebgn is a combination of Zaire ebolavirusglycoprotein directed recombinant human IgG1 human monoclonal antibodies.
