Infectious Disease

Prevalence of HPV 16 and 18 decreased; anogenital wart diagnoses down in girls, women, boys, men

Exposure to treated recreational water accounted for 35.1 percent of outbreaks, 56.7 percent of cases

Panel also no longer advises that healthy Americans ≥65 routinely receive Prevnar 13 vaccination

In the 50 local jurisdictions with concentration of most new HIV infections, testing was 46.9 percent

Osteoporosis in intertrochanter more likely in women with high urinary triclosan concentration

In postvaccine period, a biennial pattern emerged with alternating years of high, low disease activity

Season was of moderate severity and lasted 21 weeks; illness mainly attributed to influenza A viruses

Agency says outbreak is an ‘extraordinary event’ of deep concern but not a global emergency

Cases in 2019 now highest since 1992 and since the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S.

Risk up for inadequately vaccinated individuals visiting Europe, those in contact with infected travelers

No significant difference seen with use of DMPA-IM, copper IUD device, levonorgestrel implant in African women

Eight of 13 diagnoses made solely by metagenomic NGS had likely clinical effect, seven guided treatment

Seventy percent of rabies infections acquired in the United States attributed to bats

Recommendations support PrEP for those at high HIV risk, screening for teens, adults, in pregnancy