ID Week

Vikas Gupta, PharmD, BCPS, director of Clinical Strategy at Becton Dickinson, discusses his research on the national prevalence of multidrug-resistant organisms.

Speakers at the Infectious Diseases Society of America annual conference plenary symposium in New Orleans, Louisiana, discuss past successes, current challenges, and future efforts regarding infectious disease.

Zika has been around for a long time, with the first report dating back to 1947. Until 2007, only 14 cases had been reported. Subsequently, there have been three outbreaks, culminating with its arrival in the Americas in the 2015 epidemic in Brazil.

At the Infectious Diseases Society of America Meeting, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Octavio Ramilo, MD, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, gave a lecture on advancements being made when it comes to host response and pathogenesis of respiratory syncytial virus.