Sophia Abene is the Assistant Editor for Contagion. You can email her at abenes@mjhlifesciences.com.
A Strategy for Reducing STIs Through Implementing Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
March 4th 2024Study presented at CROI 2024 reveals that the introduction of Doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) guidelines in San Francisco has significantly decreased the incidence of chlamydia and syphilis
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Top Infectious Disease Stories: Week of February 10
February 16th 2024This week, increased risk of long COVID in individuals who have tested positive for the virus, advancements in the preservation of the microbiome offer new strategies for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), FDA-approved GSK's bepirovirsen signaling the company's goal to cure viral hepatitis, CDC considers changing 5-day COVID isolation guideline, and the first victim of the Alaskapox virus highlights the critical need for increased research into emerging infectious diseases.
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Top Infectious Disease Stories: Week of February 5
February 9th 2024This week, a study advocates enhancing hospital cleaning protocols to halt healthcare-associated infections; integrating HCV testing and antivirals in prisons to cut transmission of the disease; FDA announces listeria outbreak that leads to deaths and hospitalizations across 11 US states; CDC makes advances in foodborne outbreak detection via genome sequencing; and new data about the self-amplifying mRNA vaccine, ARCT-154.
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