Infectious Disease Reports, Volume 17, Issue 5

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a public health concern in Saudi Arabia, where primary care physicians play a crucial role in early detection and infection control. This study assessed physicians’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP)...

Background/Objectives: Superficial bacterial skin infections are common, particularly among athletes. In swimming, data on folliculitis, impetigo, and pitted keratolysis are limited. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of superficial bacteria...

Background: Gonorrhoea is a common sexually transmitted infection with serious health consequences if not well-treated. Resistance to common therapeutic agents and limited diagnostics further heighten its burden on sexual and reproductive health. Thi...

Background/Objectives: Legionella micdadei is a clinically significant species within the Legionella genus, requiring accurate detection methods, surveillance, and precise clinical diagnosis. Our objective was to develop a sensitive polymerase chain...

Background: Digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR) is a highly sensitive molecular method that allows rapid detection of bacterial DNA and resistance genes, requiring only a small blood volume. Although not a new technology, its application in pedi...

Background: Cryptosporidium spp. cause opportunistic infections in immunosuppressed individuals, such as people living with HIV (PLWH). However, the association between giardiasis and HIV infection remains uncertain. This study assessed co-infections...

Background: Limited molecular surveillance continues to constrain Morocco’s HIV response, leaving subtype dynamics largely underreported. Once characterized by a predominance of subtype B, the Moroccan epidemic now appears to reflect shifting p...

Background/Objectives: Influenza continues to cause high morbidity and mortality rates worldwide, inflicting a major burden on the public health system. There is little data available on the 2024–2025 seasonal outbreak. Moreover, biomarkers for...

Background: Cervical cancer remains a significant global public health concern, with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination serving as an effective preventive measure. Despite its proven efficacy, HPV vaccine uptake in Jordan remains low. This study...

Introduction: Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) poses a number of challenges when it comes to diagnosis and treatment, due to the variety of clinical presentations that mimic other conditions and hinder the choice of the most appropriate therapeutic appro...

Background/Objectives: Previously endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, mpox has since emerged globally, resulting in more than 150,000 cases in over 100 countries in the 2022 outbreak. The Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic (MVA-BN) vaccine is licens...

Background: Treatment failure continues to play a role in HIV-related morbidity in Mozambique. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) regimen switches are decided empirically, as HIV genotypic resistance testing (HIV-GT) is unavailable in Mozambique’s pu...

Background/Objectives: Retail workers may have been at an increased risk of contracting SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic. To better understand this group, we set up a longitudinal cohort to document the occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, vacc...

Background: Reactive Infectious Mucocutaneous Eruption (RIME) is a mucositis-predominant syndrome that usually follows respiratory infections in children. Although Mycoplasma pneumoniae is a well-established trigger, viral pathogens as triggers&mdash...

Background/Objectives: Hospital environmental contamination represents a significant source of healthcare-associated infections, yet standardized monitoring approaches are still inconsistent globally. This scoping review aimed to find and assess vari...

Background/Objectives: Carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (CR-GNB) pose a growing challenge to public health worldwide due to limited treatment options. This cross-sectional study investigated the characteristics of CR-GNB isolated from clini...

Vaccines are biological preparations used to elicit an immune response, in order to prevent future infections or minimize damage from possible future infection [...]

Background: Dengue virus infection is a significant challenge for global health, with 100 million symptomatic cases, 2.3 million DALYs and 20,000 deaths annually. Dengue vaccines must provide long-lasting immunity against all four virus serotypes, es...

Background: Schistosomiasis, HIV, and tuberculosis frequently lead to pulmonary hypertension in low- and middle-income countries. Lack of specific testing and limited access to right heart catheterization hamper confirmation of the etiology of pulmon...

Background/Objectives: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis remains a leading cause of hospitalization in infants. In the 2024–2025 season, passive newborn immunization with nirsevimab, a long-acting anti-RSV monoclonal antibody, was...

Backgrunod/Objectives: Routine identification of common bacterial pathogens is typically efficient, utilizing standardized, cost-effective methods. However, the diagnostic process becomes significantly more complex when dealing with rare or unexpecte...

Background: Dengue fever is an arboviral infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes that has recently become a public health concern also in Europe, causing many outbreaks of autochthonous cases. Methods: We retrospectively retrieved dengue cases in r...

Background: This study aimed to describe cefiderocol prescription and associated patient outcomes at a U.S. academic medical center for various multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO). Notably, limited real-world data exist on cefiderocol’s clinic...

Background/Objectives: The impact of COVID-19 in Africa has been controversial. Data from African countries are heterogeneous and generally scarce. Many regions are also highly endemic for other infectious diseases like malaria, and it has been sugge...

Background: Daily oral preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is one strategy employed to decrease HIV transmission among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). The Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-Free, Mentored, and Safe (DREAMS) program, funded by...

Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) disproportionately affects those residing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Given that these countries also have a high prevalence of infectious diseases, many cases of PH are either directly or indi...

Background: Although the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has been demonstrated in clinical trials, real-world pharmacovigilance remains essential to detect rare or unexpected adverse events following immunization (AEFI). In Mexico, the national AEFI surv...

Background: Torque Teno Virus (TTV) viremia has been proposed as a marker for infection risk in kidney transplant (KT) recipients. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of TTV levels for predicting infections post-KT. Methods: A cohort of...

Introduction: Hyponatremia is a common finding in hospitalized patients, especially the elderly. Symptoms of hyponatremia can vary depending on the concentration of sodium in serum as well as the dynamics of its escalation. Hyponatremia can have many...

Introduction: Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality, yet health disparities in CLABSI incidence and outcomes remain understudied. This study evaluates these disparities and their impact...

Background/Objectives: The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 boosted the development of different vaccine models. In parallel, yeasts stand out as a vaccine platform in healthcare biotechnology. Species such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastori...

Background: Cellulosimicrobium, formerly known as the Oerskovia genus, is a Gram-positive organism known for its characteristic bright yellow colonies. While abundant in nature, it is very rarely linked to pathogenesis in humans. While there is no cl...