ID Week

Social determinants such as housing and transportation were strong predictors of patients receiving fecal microbiota transplants (FMT).

The monoclonal antibody demonstrated a significant impact on RSV-related hospitalizations regardless of infant characteristics.

Adding the oral therapy to standard of care helped reduce total days on oxygen for those hospitalized with COVID-19.

Earlier this year, cases of fungal meningitis were discovered at 2 surgical clinics in Matamoros, Mexico. The CDC offers an update on this deadly outbreak.

A study being presented at IDWeek 2023 demonstrated a 2-fold increase in HIV infections associated with barriers to treatment.

Although HIV PrEP uptake is gradually increasing, usage remains low among key at-risk populations.

What are the characteristics and demographics of the chronic hepatitis B patients who develop severe outcomes?

Previously thought to be difficult or impossible, one study found HCV and drug use can be treated concurrently in young adults.

How do we increase HIV PrEP uptake? “I think the biggest takeaway here is that people need options,” said Travis Sanchez, DVM, MPH.

Is it safe and beneficial to administer a second immunomodulator in patients with moderate COVID-19? How do we identify which patients are likely to progress to severe disease?

Lodise breaks down significant findings from his 8 IDWeek 2022 posters.

Remdesivir was the first FDA-approved drug to fight COVID-19, but how has it held up against the latest variants?

Northwestern Medicine developed a testing strategy using a two-step algorithm to improve diagnostic accuracy and treatment outcomes.

One HIV clinical care program in Delaware looked into strategies to increase immunization rates to decrease severe disease as well as minimize hospital capacity.

It’s not enough to have accurate infectious disease diagnostics, they must be accessible to the patients most affected.

Encouraging ICU physicians to utilize rapid diagnostics, like the FilmArray Pneumonia Panel, may improve patient outcomes.

Venatorx Pharmaceuticals is advancing the fight against difficult-to-treat, drug-resistant, gram-negative bacteria with a successful phase 3 clinical trial of its investigational antibiotic cefepime-taniborbactam.

Sepsis diagnosis often takes days. Dr. Roy Davis and his team have developed a test that can diagnose sepsis in an hour.

A multicenter, retrospective observational study looked at appropriate antibiotics for the treatment in this patient population.

Investigators examined the profiles of the HepB-CPG vaccine and HepB-alum vaccines to study the onset of select immune-mediated diseases, herpes zoster, or anaphylaxis.

A late-breaking IDWeek 2022 study found high seroprotection was achieved among people living with HIV after receiving 3 doses of a hepatitis B vaccine.

Using the DRIP Score along with newer diagnostic technology may determine the course of antibiotics for certain patients with pneumonia more efficiently and efficaciously.

A member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) leadership feels there is some inroads being made in Congress for this antimicrobial resistance legislation.

What makes Novavax’s COVID-19 booster different? The adjuvanted vaccine “has kept recognizing variants that arise,” says Novavax executive director Germán Áñez, MD.

After the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) revised their clinical breakpoints for susceptibility test results, a laboratory at a major medical center in a large midwest city evaluated enterobacterales as it relates to bloodstream infections (BSI) and piperacillin/tazobactam.

Late breaking data was reported utilizing the monoclonal antibody during the era of when Omicron variant was the predominant strain and demonstrated good outcomes and tolerability.

During a late breaking session at ID Week, an investigator presented data on the GSK vaccine that is in development.

Dr. Simon Portsmouth elaborates on the potential of Shionogi's cefiderocol, an up-and-coming agent in the fight against antimicrobial resistance.

The phase 3 study met its primary and secondary end points of all-cause mortality, microbiological eradication rates, and new Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia complications.

Evidence on this has been conflicting and a poster presented at ID Week offers more insights on this significant topic.