Infectious Disease Digest: This Week's Key Updates and Breakthroughs

Reported cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been on the rise for the past decade, and identifying Legionella bacteria requires specialized testing in the microbiology lab. Here is a clinical overview of Legionella bacteria, including required testing, treatment, and reporting to public health officials.

A retrospective multihospital study found that severe adverse events occurred at similarly low rates with ceftriaxone and other IV cephalosporins suggesting there is no evidence to support avoiding ceftriaxone despite recent health department safety alerts.

The 18-year old resident of the state suffered from acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Pennsylvania numbers are surging with some of the highest state totals of measles cases in the country.

In its second disease cluster this summer, city officials are cleaning building towers in the South Bronx amidst an ongoing investigation and are rolling out measures to prevent future Legionnaires' cases.

New gyrA testing guides ciprofloxacin use for gonorrhea, cutting ceftriaxone reliance while tackling resistance, access, and FDA hurdles.

16 years after the FDA determined that it does not, a new analysis of trials comparing cefepime with other ß-lactams, including the unpublished industry sponsored trials reviewed by the FDA, disagrees.

The death was reported in Jefferson County where the coroner released a statement announcing it was in an unvaccinated woman.

Congenital measles is a serious infection that can occur when a pregnant woman contracts measles near delivery and transmits the virus across the placenta to her newborn. Here is more information around this rare form of the disease.