This week, there are C diff and hepatitis roundup reports, how COVID-19 has disrupted traditional respiratory virus patterns with summer surges now preceding the typical winter influenza season, a review of a trial comparing dalbavancin with standard intravenous therapy for Staphylococcus aureus, and more.
The 2025 ATS guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia update recommendations on imaging, antibiotic use, treatment duration, and corticosteroid use, emphasizing lung ultrasound as an alternative diagnostic tool, more selective empiric antibiotic prescribing, shorter courses of antibiotics for stable patients, and limited use of corticosteroids to severe inpatient cases.
A June–September roundup spanning hepatitis research and surveillance data, FDA and ACIP policy moves, diet and diagnostics insights, and pipeline updates from screening innovations to HBV/HDV/HCV trials and approvals.
A June–September C diff roundup spanning diagnostics and stewardship debates, microbiome-based therapies and FMT optimization, prevention trials and funding, real-world outcomes, and persistent gaps in clinician practice and public awareness.
An expert discusses how COVID-19 has disrupted traditional respiratory virus patterns with summer surges now preceding the typical winter influenza season, while declining vaccine uptake among younger populations threatens to leave vulnerable groups increasingly exposed to seasonal illness complications.
The DOTS randomized clinical trial compared dalbavancin, a long-acting intravenous lipoglycopeptide, with standard intravenous therapy for the completion of treatment in adults with complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
