Experts urge vaccination during pregnancy to prevent infant whooping cough deaths
Pertussis, or whooping cough, is on the rise and incidence now exceeds pre-pandemic numbers. While in adults and…
Risk factors and predictive model for pediatric influenza-associated encephalopathy symptoms: a retrospective study | BMC Infectious Diseases
Research subjects This study is a retrospective case-control study. Data of 6,647 pediatric influenza patients treated at Wuhan…
Children face higher risk of long COVID after reinfection
Children and adolescents were twice as likely to experience long COVID after catching COVID for the second time,…
Influenza-related invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in an infectious disease ward at a pulmonary referral center in Iran | BMC Infectious Diseases
Based on a sample of 109 patients with confirmed influenza, we found that the incidence of IPA among…
Ecological dynamics of field Aedes albopictus populations under Wolbachia-mediated suppression | Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Description of study areas The general characterization of the study areas was described previously [21]. The Shazai and…
Differential expression of antennal chemosensory genes related to host preference of Culex pipiens biotypes | Parasites & Vectors
Farajollahi A, Fonseca DM, Kramer LD, Kilpatrick AM. “Bird biting” mosquitoes and human disease: a review of the…
Malaria-Transmitting Mosquito’s Genetic Diversity and Evolution Revealed
There are a variety of methods that have been established to curtail the spread of infectious disease, from…
New NIH grant supports development of experimental pediatric HIV vaccine
A multi-institutional team led by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators has been awarded a five-year, $20.8 million grant from…
Waning Japanese encephalitis immunity linked to more severe dengue illness
Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, in collaboration with researchers in Nepal, have found that waning immunity to Japanese…
Epidemiological analysis of syphilis trends, disparities, and public health implications in the United States, 2018–2022 | BMC Infectious Diseases
Trends in common sexually transmitted infections in the United States, 2018–2022 Recent epidemiological trends highlight a shifting and…
What is the world’s deadliest animal? 60+ types of it in Mississippi
Diseases spread by mosquito bites and how you can protect yourself Here are four diseases transmitted from a…
Postpartum mothers more likely to be cured of hepatitis C with bedside treatment
Hepatitis C, a bloodborne virus that damages the liver, can cause cirrhosis, liver cancer, liver failure and death…