Infectious Disease

• Ongoing surveillance needed to monitor trends in HPV rates after vaccination

• Infectious Disease News, May 2012
• The ongoing monitoring of HPV-associated cancers via the National Program of Cancer Registries and the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results program...More »

• Measles mortality fell markedly; sustained immunization vital to maintain progress

• Infectious Disease News, May 2012
• The good news is that measles mortality dropped by nearly 75% by 2010. The bad news is that 15 children die every hour of each day as a result of measles,...More »

• Text-message reminders increased flu vaccination rates in children

• Infectious Disease News, May 2012
• Young people in a low-income, urban population had an increased rate of influenza vaccinations when they received text-message reminders vs. those...More »

• US Measles cases reach 15-year high

• Infectious Disease News, May 2012
• In 2011, there were more measles cases in the United States than in the previous 15 years, according to the CDC.
  Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC’s...More »

• Pertussis resurgence in Israel mainly attributable to two strains

• April 9, 2012
• Most of the patients with pertussis in Israel present with  four main strains of Bordetella pertussis, two of which are closely related, according to...More »

• Editorial

• Childhood tuberculosis: Are we at the tipping point?

• Infectious Disease News, March 2012
  Jeffrey R. Starke , MD
• In 2012, tuberculosis remains one of the major global diseases, with almost 10 million annual cases and 1.7 million deaths caused by the disease.
  ...More »

• Meeting News Coverage

• Invasive pneumococcal disease rate decreased with use of PCV13 vaccine

• April 4, 2012
• Since the introduction of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13), the rates of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) have decreased in...More »

• Vaccine significantly decreased herpes incidence in older adults

• Infectious Disease News, May 2012
• Compared with 99 cases of herpes incidence (1.99 per 1,000 person-years) in those assigned placebo, there were only 30 cases (6.57 per 1,000 person-years)...More »

• In the Journals

• Pertussis affected very young infants in 2010 California outbreak

• April 2, 2012
• Infants aged younger than 6 months experienced the highest attack and hospitalization rates during the 2010 pertussis outbreak in California, according to...More »

• Electronic reminders failed to increase HPV vaccination rates in females

• Infectious Disease News, April 2012
• Researchers from the University of South Florida found that reminders in electronic health records did not increase the rate of initiation of the human...More »

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