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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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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)

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)

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