Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Vaccination rates in the U.S. continue to lag, and new research presented at IDWeek 2024 in Los Angeles, California, underscored the role social vulnerabilities play in access to preventive healthcare.

Use of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), an HIV-1 prevention strategy, across diverse demographic groups is not consistent, despite importance of the tool.

New data presented at IDWeek 2024, October 16-19, alerted doctors about the national trends and racial disparities in sepsis-related mortality rates (SRMR) in children between 1999 to 20219.

New research presented at IDWeek 2024 may impact advice patients are given on how long antibiotics take to work following treatment of bloodstream infections.

Avian influenza H5 was detected in municipal wastewater solids during a U.S. cattle outbreak, providing a potential early warning system for future outbreaks.

HSV-1 and HSV-2 establish latent/reactivation patterns, giving rise to recurrent epithelial lesions, cold sores and genital herpes, in patients. These persistent infections have affected over half of the US adult population yet the pathogenic mechanism is not well understood.

Marburg virus survivors have been investigated in a new study that has identified a key immunogen in the virus’s wing domain that could revolutionize vaccine development.