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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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May 2025

Antiretroviral drugs for treatment and prevention of HIV in adults: 2024 recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel

Assessment and management of dengue (BMJ practice pointer)

Burden of RSV infections among young children in primary care: a prospective cohort study in five European countries (2021–23)

Capacitive biosensor for rapid detection of avian (H5N1) influenza and E. coli in aerosols

Cost-benefit analysis of far-UVC lamps for reducing indoor infection transmission in Switzerland and Germany

Discrepancies in neglected tropical diseases burden estimates in China: comparative study of real-world data and Global Burden of Disease 2021 data (2004-2020)

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

Ethical and legal considerations in the care of children and young people with high consequence infectious diseases (HCIDs): an approach to decision making

Evidence of zero-risk transmission of HIV in the era of antiretroviral therapy

Evolving epidemiology of mpox in Africa in 2024

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infections in humans

How to recognise and manage measles (BMJ practice pointer)

Human African trypanosomiasis

Identifying and mitigating the public health consequences of meta-ignorance about "Long COVID" risks

Incidence and prevalence of post-COVID-19 myalgic encephalomyelitis (RECOVER-Adult)

Large-scale computational modelling of H5 influenza variants against HA1-neutralising antibodies

Low-dose yellow fever vaccine in adults in Africa

Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks

Psittacosis outbreak in Europe: a concern for public health

Seroprevalence of highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5) virus infections among bovine veterinary practitioners — United States, September 2024

Tuberculosis (Lancet review)

Unlocking the key to HPV prevention: exploring factors influencing HPV vaccination decisions among young people and their parents

Use of face shield as a COVID-19 safety protocol: a meta-analysis

Sources

ACS Sensors (Feb); BMJ, The (Feb-Mar); CDC website (Feb); Clinica Respiratory Journal, The (Mar); eBioMedicine (Apr); International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology (Mar); JAMA (Feb); Journal of General Internal Medicine (Jan); Lancet, The (Feb-Mar); Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, The (Mar); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Feb); Nature Medicine (Jan); NEJM (Feb); Public Health (Jan-Apr)

March 2025

4 in 10 Minnesota COVID survivors report having at least 1 lingering symptom

            See also: Impact of Long COVID symptoms in Minnesota

Ask an expert: HIV in primary care (BMJ practice pointer)

Association between prenatal antibiotic exposure and adverse long-term health outcomes in children

Birth outcomes after pertussis and influenza diagnosed in pregnancy

The blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier as a potential entry site for the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Building a bridge between the mechanism of EBV reactivation and the treatment of EBV-associated cancers

Burden of infections in early life and risk of infections and systemic antibiotics use in childhood

Dynamic changes and trends of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies induced by infection and vaccination across multiple time points

HepB-CpG vs HepB-alum vaccine in people with HIV and prior vaccine nonresponse (BEe-HIVe)

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

Immune damage in Long Covid

Incidence and prevalence of post-COVID-19 myalgic encephalomyelitis (RECOVER-Adult)

Interventions to reduce non‐prescription antimicrobial sales in community pharmacies (new Cochrane intervention review)

It won’t end with COVID: countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29

Metabolic reprogramming in Epstein–Barr virus associated diseases

Modulation of cell cycle kinases by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus

The “pandemic of abandonment”: navigating friendships five years into COVID-19

Pasteurisation temperatures effectively inactivate influenza A viruses in milk

Risk of invasive pneumococcal disease during pregnancy and postpartum and association with adverse maternal and foetal outcomes: a prospective cohort study, England, 2014-19

RSV-bacterial co-infection is associated with increased illness severity in hospitalized children

SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human hepatocytes and induces cell death

Severity and long-term mortality of COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus

Suspected and confirmed mpox cases in DR Congo: a retrospective analysis of national epidemiological and laboratory surveillance data, 2010–23

Systematic review of avian influenza virus infection and outcomes during pregnancy

Sources

BJOG (Feb); BMJ, The (Feb); CIDRAP website (Jan); Cochrane Library (Jan-Feb); Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jan); JAMA (Dec); JAMA Network Open (Jan); Journal of General Internal Medicine (Jan); Journal of Infection (Jan); Journal of Medical Virology (Jan-Feb); Lancet, The (Jan); Minnesota Department of Health website (Jan); Nature Communications (Jan); PLOS Global Public Health (Jan); Science (Jan); Sick Times website (Jan)

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)

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