Division of Infectious Diseases Archive — Page 3 of 13
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March 15, 2024
Emerging Infections Program extends, expands disease surveillance research with new grant from the CDC
The Tennessee Emerging Infections Program has been awarded a new five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue infectious disease surveillance research that has been conducted since 1999, and has expanded to include COVID, Mpox and HPV surveillance into oropharyngeal cancers. -
March 14, 2024
Immune cell profiles may guide flu vaccine timing in pediatric stem cell transplant patients
A new study led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers has identified key immune cell populations that predict how well pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) recipients will respond to the influenza vaccine. -
January 11, 2024
Comprehensive Care Clinic’s Ruby Gala set for Feb. 10
The Vanderbilt Comprehensive Care Clinic, Nashville’s original nonprofit medical home for people living with HIV, will hold its annual Ruby Gala on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024, at Marathon Music Works. -
December 8, 2023
You missed a few: a better way to count health care-associated influenza cases
The traditional definition of health care-associated influenza leads to gross undercounting, a Vanderbilt study suggests. -
December 4, 2023
Report offers a way to overcome the severe lack of HIV providers
In a new report, members of the Southeast AIDS Education and Training Center, which is coordinated by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, offers an innovative approach to increasing the HIV workforce: train all manner of health professionals to care for people with HIV. -
November 16, 2023
Nasty microbe H. pylori has Achilles’ heel
Vanderbilt researchers found that an H. pylori enzyme is essential for colonization of the stomach, suggesting it as a promising therapeutic target for H. pylori infection. -
October 26, 2023
Karen Bloch honored for clinical excellence by Infectious Diseases Society of America
Vanderbilt's Karen Bloch, MD, MPH, is one of two winners of the 2023 Watanakunakorn Clinician Award from the Infectious Disease Society of America.