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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Infectious Diseases

Infectious Diseases current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

Links to articles in the current and previous 2 issues of this bulletin are displayed below.

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January 2025

Application of MIDD to accelerate the development of anti-infectives: current status and future perspectives

Candida auris infections (NEJM review)

The changing face of HIV pathology: a personal perspective

The effect of sample site and collection procedure on identification of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Emergence of a novel reassortant clade 2.3.2.1c avian influenza A/H5N1 virus associated with human cases in Cambodia (preprint)

Emerging monkeypox virus sublineage C.1 causing community transmission, Vietnam, 2023

Epidemiological and clinical features of mpox during the clade Ib outbreak in South-Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: a prospective cohort study (preprint)

Genetic sequencing analysis of monkeypox virus clade I in Republic of the Congo

Global emerging infections surveillance program contributions to pandemic preparedness and response

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection in cats, South Korea, 2023

How climate change made 2024 the deadliest year of dengue

Mechanisms and implications of IgG4 responses to SARS-CoV-2 and other repeatedly administered vaccines

Mpox clinical presentation, diagnostic approaches, and treatment strategies

Multi-organ spread and intra-host diversity of SARS-CoV-2 support viral persistence, adaptation, and a mechanism that increases evolvability

The persistence of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sex differences in postacute infection syndromes

Serum and urine nucleic acid screening tests for BK polyomavirus‐associated nephropathy in kidney and kidney‐pancreas transplant recipients (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Using SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data to identify reinfection cases in the global emerging infections surveillance program, United States

Vaccine effectiveness against mild and severe covid-19 in pregnant individuals and their infants in England: test negative case-control study

Why a teenager’s bird-flu infection is ringing alarm bells for scientists

Sources

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Nov-Dec); BMJ, The (Nov); BMJ Medicine (Dec); Cochrane Library (Nov-Dec); Diagnostic Histopathology (Oct); Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov-Dec); JAMA (Nov); Journal of Infection (Dec); Journal of Medical Virology (Dec); Lancet, The (Nov); medRxiv (Nov); Nature (Nov); NEJM (Nov); Science Translational Medicine (Nov)

November 2024

Advances in the design and delivery of RNA vaccines for infectious diseases

Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050

Global resurgence of pertussis: a perspective from China

Immune system adaptation during gender-affirming testosterone treatment

The impact of increasing temperatures due to climate change on infectious diseases

Intermittent preventive treatment regimens for malaria in HIV‐positive pregnant women (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Interventions for BK virus infection in kidney transplant recipients (new Cochrane intervention review)

Laboratory‐based molecular test alternatives to RT‐PCR for the diagnosis of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Long‐term antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of rheumatic fever recurrence and progression to rheumatic heart disease (new Cochrane rapid review)

Long-term morbidity and mortality of patients who survived past 30 days from bloodstream infection: a population-based retrospective cohort study

The long wait for long-acting HIV prevention and treatment formulations

Mpox epidemiology and risk factors, Nigeria, 2022

A new orthonairovirus associated with human febrile illness

One health investigation into Mpox and pets, United States

Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy with carbapenems: a systematic review

Prevalence and impact of persistent symptoms following SARS-CoV-2 infection among healthcare workers: a cross-sectional survey in the SIREN cohort

Prevalence, risk factors and characterisation of individuals with long COVID using Electronic Health Records in over 1.5 million COVID cases in England

Respiratory syncytial virus vaccination and immunoprophylaxis: realising the potential for protection of young children

Risk factors for severe disease in pediatric respiratory syncytial virus infections

Severe respiratory syncytial virus infection in children: burden, management, and emerging therapies

Smallpox autoinoculation via tattoo in a soldier

Sources

Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (Oct); BMJ, The (Oct); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep-Oct); Journal of Infection (Oct-Nov); Lancet, The (Sep); Lancet, The (Sep-Oct); Lancet HIV, The (Aug); Military Medicine (Jul); Nature (Sep); NEJM (Sep); Public Health (Oct)

September 2024

Accuracy of routine laboratory tests to predict mortality and deterioration to severe or critical COVID‐19 in people with SARS‐CoV‐2 (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Avian influenza A(H5N1) virus among dairy cattle, Texas, USA

Buffalopox: an emerging zoonotic challenge

Causal attribution of human papillomavirus genotypes to invasive cervical cancer worldwide literature

Challenges of antimicrobial stewardship among older adults

Changes in immune cell subtypes during ageing

Clinical spectrum and relevance of Mycobacterium malmoense

Diabetes as a risk factor for tuberculosis disease (new Cochrane prognosis review)

Early use of oral antiviral drugs and the risk of post COVID-19 syndrome

Effects of COVID-19 on the spread of respiratory-transmitted human-to-human bacteria

Global antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients within health facilities

Global Mpox outbreak: are we prepared for emerging strains?

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) clade 2.3.4.4b virus infection in domestic dairy cattle and cats, United States, 2024

HIV-associated tuberculosis  

Impact of COVID-19 vaccine spring boosters on COVID-19 hospital admissions in England 2022/23

A meta-analysis of Chikungunya virus in neurological disorders

Modeling the transmission mitigation impact of testing for infectious diseases

Prevalence of tuberculosis infection among contacts of drug-resistant tuberculosis patients

Reemergence of Clade IIb–Associated Mpox, Germany, July–December 2023

SARS-CoV-2 infection of domestic animals and their role in evolution and emergence of variants of concern

SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity in urban population of wild fallow deer, Dublin, Ireland, 2020–2022

Tick-borne diseases at the crossroads of the Middle East and central Europe

Vaccine effectiveness and impact of meningococcal vaccines against gonococcal infections

Vaginal anaerobes are associated with cervicitis: a case-control study

Sources

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Jul); Cochrane Library (Jul-Aug); Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul-Aug); Emerging Microbes and Infections (Jun); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Jun); Infectious Diseases Now (Aug-Sep); Journal of Infection (Jun-Sep); Lancet, The (Aug); NEJM (Jul); New Microbes and Infections (Dec); Science Advances (Jun)

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