What People are Reading: This Week's Top 5 Infectious Disease Stories

Irkutsk anti-plague institute death prompts quarantines and conflicting official accounts.

A laboratory technician at a Siberian anti-plague institute has died of pneumonia of unknown cause, prompting quarantines and contact monitoring while Russian officials stop short of confirming plague.

Recent urinary tract infection guideline updates from multiple international medical societies highlight evolving recommendations, including a major shift in classification, moving from anatomy- and risk factor–based definitions toward distinguishing localized from systemic infections.

A study finding clesrovimab comparable to palivizumab in protecting at-risk infants in their first RSV season was extended to demonstrate clesrovimab effective and well-tolerated when administered in their second season.

The latest CDC numbers show a 6.2% increase of measles cases from week-to-week. Last week there was a 5.4% increase in cases showing a continuing steady increase dictated by ongoing outbreaks across the US.

Lori Handy, MD, provides guidance in these areas including presentation before rash onset, when patients should be considered for the inpatient setting, and what treatment looks like.

IDSA/ESCMID panel member Henry Chambers, MD, explains why the new S aureus bacteremia guidance replaces the complicated vs uncomplicated label with risk stratification, and how the statements are akin to the stages of cancer in guiding treatment decisions associated with this bacteremia.

Jason Pogue, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP, contextualizes preliminary data looking at this trial and other extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) studies, which reopens the debate around carbapenem-sparing treatment options.