Clinical Infectious Diseases Archives
Global study tracks brain infection in people with HIV
Mar. 2, 2023—A Vanderbilt study is shedding new light on the incidence and mortality of cryptococcal meningitis among people with HIV
Serious pneumococcal infections increase the risk of heart attack
Mar. 2, 2023—A Vanderbilt study found that patients with serious pneumococcal infections, including pneumonia and sepsis, are at a substantially increased risk of heart attack after the onset of infection.
Study tracks limited use of influenza antiviral therapy
Aug. 4, 2022—A Vanderbilt study found that more than half of children diagnosed with influenza and deemed high risk for flu-related complications were given the recommended antiviral treatment.
Influenza network sizes up COVID
Jul. 22, 2021—Hospital data from a CDC network that monitors influenza revealed that adults hospitalized for COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic were 20x more likely to die compared to hospitalized influenza patients.
HCQ doesn’t protect health workers from COVID: study
Nov. 5, 2020—Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) did not significantly reduce the incidence of COVID-19 among health care workers who participated in a national study that included Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
ID of ‘stomach flu’ culprit
Aug. 6, 2020—Identifying the norovirus genotypes associated with more severe infections in children could guide strain selection for candidate norovirus vaccines.
About half of health care workers positive for COVID-19 by serology have no symptoms
Jul. 9, 2020—The IVY Research Network has completed initial studies evaluating the epidemiology of COVID-19 in health care workers and patients.
Records point to drug-drug interaction
May. 7, 2018—Patients who take a cholesterol-lowering statin drug while taking the antibiotic daptomycin have increased risk of developing muscle weakness or a more severe form of muscle damage.
Flu boosts pneumococcal colonization
Mar. 27, 2014—Influenza and parainfluenza infections – but not other respiratory viruses – increase the risk of acquiring pneumococcal bacteria, the most common cause of severe pneumonia.
