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

Infectious Diseases current awareness bulletin

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November 2025

Barriers and strategies to enhance uptake of HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men: a restricted review

A brief overview on the threat of zoonotic viruses

Drug resistance in parasites: a review of mechanisms, drivers, and mitigation strategies

The effectiveness of maternal influenza vaccination in protecting neonates from respiratory infections

Effectiveness of SARS‐CoV‐2 testing strategies in reducing COVID‐19 cases, hospitalisations, and deaths (new Cochrane review)

Efficacy and safety of respiratory syncytial virus vaccines (new Cochrane review)

Estimating the effect of contact tracing during the early stage of an epidemic

From vectors to victims: understanding the threat of West Nile virus infection

The future of healthcare-associated infection surveillance: automated surveillance and using the potential of artificial intelligence

Hepatitis C screening in emergency departments: the DETECT Hep C randomized clinical trial

HIV testing: increasing uptake among people who may have undiagnosed HIV (updated NICE guideline NG60)

Hospital acquired drug resistant pathogens infections in patients with viral respiratory tract infections: a retrospective study

Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence estimates among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK

Intranasal measles virus– and mumps virus–based SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission

Monkeypox: a comprehensive review of virology, epidemiology, and global health implications

One dose versus three doses of benzathine penicillin G in early syphilis

Race, ethnicity and risk for colonisation and infection with key bacterial pathogens: a scoping review

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

The role of maternal microbiota in shaping neonatal immunity: implications for infectious disease prevention

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein mutation variants: recent advances in theragnostic and vaccines development

Shigellosis (Lancet review)

West Nile virus: a review (JAMA)

WHO guideline on HIV service delivery (updated)

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

Sources

BMC Infectious Diseases (Aug); BMJ (Aug); BMJ Global Health (Aug); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); Journal of Internal Medicine (Sep); Infectious Disease Modelling (Sep); JAMA (Aug); Journal of Internal Medicine (Aug); Lancet (Oct); Microbes and Infectious Diseases (Aug); Nature (Jul); NEJM (Sep); NICE website (Aug-Sep); PNAS (Aug); WHO website (Sep)

September 2025

Advances in the management of hepatitis B

Aluminum-adsorbed vaccines and chronic diseases in childhood: a nationwide cohort study

The case for optimal investment in combating HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria: a global modelling study

Common misconceptions about COVID hold strong as new variant spreads

Corynebacterium diphtheriae outbreak in migrant populations in Europe

Could it be HIV? Using clinical indicator-guided HIV testing in general practice

A decade later, what have we learned from the Zika epidemic in children with intrauterine exposure?

Decoding post-mortem infection dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, IAV and RSV: new insights for public health and emerging infectious diseases management

Epidemiology and phylogenomic characterisation of two distinct mpox outbreaks in Kinshasa, DR Congo, involving a new subclade Ia lineage: a retrospective, observational study

Estimating the potential malaria morbidity and mortality avertable by the US President's Malaria Initiative in 2025: a geospatial modelling analysis

An evidence-based approach to COVID-19 vaccination

How climate change is threatening Africa by supercharging Rift Valley fever

Immunogenicity and safety of influenza and COVID-19 multicomponent vaccine in adults ≥50 years: a randomized clinical trial

Impact of an antibiotic stewardship programme in the emergency department of a secondary hospital

Induction of tunnelling nanotube-like structures by influenza A viruses requires the onset of apoptosis

Ivermectin to control malaria — a cluster-randomized trial

Long COVID rates higher in women: evidence grows

Modeling reemergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US

Safety and immunogenicity of intranasal parainfluenza virus type 5 (PIV5)–vectored COVID-19 vaccine in adults and teens in an open-label phase 1 trial

Wastewater measures of SARS-CoV-2 accurately predict frequency of symptomatic infections in the community

Sources

Annals of Internal Medicine (Jul); Australian Journal of General Practice (Jun); BMJ, The (Jun-Jul); Gauntlet website (Jun); JAMA (Jun); Journal of Infection (Jun); Journal of Infectious Diseases, The (Jul); Infectious Diseases Now (Jun); Lancet, The (Jun-Jul); Medscape (Jul); NEJM (Jun-Jul); PLOS Pathogens (Jun); Science Advances (Jul)

July 2025

Aerosol emission and exposure in non-invasive ventilation

BCG revaccination for the prevention of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

Bird flu and other assorted pestilences

Clinical presentation and epidemiological assessment of confirmed human mpox cases in DR Congo

Communication-based interventions to increase COVID-19 vaccine willingness and uptake

Differences in chest imaging between Omicron and non–Omicron coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients

Driving under viral impairment: linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks

Efficacy of baloxavir treatment in preventing transmission of influenza

Enhancing the response to avian influenza in the US and globally

Identification and validation of programmed cell death related biomarkers for the treatment and prevention COVID-19

Impact of nirsevimab on RSV and non‐RSV severe respiratory infections in hospitalized infants

Long COVID clinical evaluation, research and impact on society: a global expert consensus

Malaria (NEJM review)

Microbial laden mobile phones from international conference attendees pose potential risks to public health and biosecurity

Parasitic infection and treatment linked to cancer-related gene activity in the cervix

Persistent immune dysregulation and metabolic alterations following SARS-CoV-2 infection (preprint)

Measuring the fitted filtration efficiency of cloth masks, medical masks and respirators

Short and long-term trajectories of the post COVID-19 condition (EuCARE POSTCOVID)

Tecovirimat for clade I MPXV infection in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Treatment options to support the elimination of hepatitis C

Trends in incidence and epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, six emerging infections program surveillance sites, 2005-2022

Sources

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (Apr); Annals of Medicine (Apr); BMC Infectious Diseases (Apr); BMJ Open (May); EurekAlert website (Apr); Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (Apr); Infection, Disease & Health (May); Lancet, The (May); Lancet Regional Health – Americas, The (Apr); medRxiv (Apr); NEJM (Apr-May); Open Forum Infectious Diseases (May); PLOS Global Public Health (Apr); PLOS One (Apr); Protean Magazine (Apr); Scientific Reports (Apr)

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