Zahra Masoud

Vaccine effectiveness and severity of current and prior seasons of influenza have demonstrated no association with vaccination rate in children, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Compared with other pediatric and adolescent vaccines, the influenza vaccination rate remains low in children. Although many reasons may affect whether a child is vaccinated, the extent…

The M72/AS01 vaccine shows efficacy against pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) at 3 years in patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

Pneumococcal colonization rates are low in recipients of solid organ transplants, but most of the colonizing serotypes are not included in pneumococcal vaccines.

As a result of low drug resistance in pleural tuberculosis, treatment regimens of pleural TB may include fewer drugs and maintain appropriate levels of efficaciousness.

Compared with the standard-dose influenza vaccine, a high-dose quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine, GC3114, may provide a more effective influenza vaccine option for the elderly population.

Understanding the pneumococcal population dynamics will drive an effective next-generation vaccine design.

A new real-time polymerase chain reaction assay shows promise in the noninvasive diagnosis of aspergillosis and mucormycosis.

Prospective surveillance of enterovirus D68 is contributing to a better understanding of its epidemiology and should be continued.

Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa skin cultures may help to predictthe pathogens involved in bloodstream infections.

The first-ever UN High-Level Meeting on tuberculosis, in September 2018, resolved that ending the disease is a global priority.

A novel antibiotic, lefamulin, may not be inferior to moxifloxacin in efficacy and safety for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.

Rapid molecular tests for viral pathogen detection provide accurate results and implementation in hospital settings is recommended.

The administration of corticosteroids in patients with sepsis may be associated with significant improvement in patient outcomes.

Previous results stated that Legionella pneumonia characteristics may not differ between individuals with HIV and individuals who do not have HIV.

There is currently a global outbreak of disseminated Mycobacterium chimaera related to the widely used surgical device LivaNova 3T heater-cooler unit contamination.

A transient resistance to rifampin may emerge in patients after taking rifaximin.

Hands can be vehicles for transmission of pneumococcus and lead to acquisition of nasopharyngeal colonization.

Clinical presentation and outcomes in HIV-infected patients with Legionella pneumonia did not differ from patients without HIV infection.

In patients with insulin-treated diabetes and sepsis, increased highest glucose levels and glycemic variability have a significant illness severity-adjusted association with decreasing in-hospital mortality.

Higher serum bactericidal activity following immunization with PRP-CRM197 reflected superior short-term and long-term seroprotective effects compared with immunization with PRP-T.

Interventional reduction of the angiopoietin-1/angiopoietin-2 ratio may provide therapeutic perspective for prevention of acute lung injury in pneumonia.