In the summer of 2024, a previously healthy 47-year-old father collapsed and died in the bathroom of his New Jersey home. An autopsy provided no answers. Everything looked normal, and his death was ru...

Details on an outbreak of infant botulism linked to infant formula, November 2025.

Multisociety guidance for infection prevention and control in nursing homes

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has approved Siiltibcy

Mycetoma is a chronic, deep skin infection that is often characterised by grains. This Review discusses what is known about mycetoma grain formation, with a focus on Madurella mycetomatis, and the nee...

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

This feature about a student with strep throat and an unconfirmed penicillin allergy offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting use of a nonpenicillin antibiotic and the other...

Ryan Duffy, 18, a senior at Neshaminy High School in Langhorne, contracted Streptococcus Pneumoniae Meningitis last week and died Tuesday.

The pursuit of personalized medicine has underscored the critical role of phenotypes and subphenotypes in biology and medicine. A growing body of literature has identified diverse phenotypic manifesta...

The number of “innovation champions” in the pharma industry working on infectious diseases is dropping — and that’s troubling, writes R&D director for Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative.

This case report on recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae in a post-renal transplant patient un...

Analysis of 594 isolates of Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)131 and its single locus variants carrying carbapenemase genes from 17 European Union/European Economic Area countries revealed acquisition of 18 carbapenemase variants, mainly in ST131 clades A and C. Most frequent were blaOXA-244 (n = 230) and blaOXA-48 (n = 224), detected in 14 and 12 countries, respectively. Isolates carrying blaOXA-244 have increased rapidly since 2021. The increasing detection of carbapenemase genes in the E. coli high-risk lineage ST131 is a public health concern.

These findings suggest that live zoster vaccination may be beneficial as a public health strategy with potential implications for cardiovascular disease burden in the general population. This strategy...

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Among influenza patients hospitalized during the 2022–2023 influenza season, initiating treatment with oseltamivir on the day of admission (compared with l

This clinical trial compares the efficacy and safety of dalbavancin vs standard therapy for completion of treatment of complicated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in hospitalized patients.

Abstract. Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis is now included in many clinical guidelines, yet concerns remain regarding antimicrobial resistance, partic

State Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who announced the decision, cast current requirements in schools and elsewhere as “immoral” intrusions.

A 65-year-old man presented with 1-day history of a rash with a bull’s-eye appearance on his left hip. One week earlier, he had removed a tick from his hip after doing yard work near the woods by h...

Piperacillin, an FDA-approved beta-lactam, is effective at killing the Lyme disease–causing agent Borrelia burgdorferi.