Epidemiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia Hospitalizations and Associated Complications Before and After the Implementation of the Heptavalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Athens, Greece.

abstract：Background:Solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients are at risk for invasive fungal disease (IFD). Data on IFD burden in pediatric patients are limited. We aimed to determine the incidence and outcome of IFD in a large cohort of pediatric patients who underwent SOT. Methods:A single-center cohort of pediatric patients ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Saxena S,Gee J,Klieger S,Kajon A,Petersen H,Zaoutis T,Fisher B

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteroviruses (EVs) occur frequently worldwide and are known to be associated with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations from mild syndromes to neurological disease. To understand the epidemiology of EV in Korea, we characterized EV-infected cases during 2012-2019 based on national surveillance. METHO...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Kang HJ,Yoon Y,Lee YP,Kim HJ,Lee DY,Lee JW,Hyeon JY,Yoo JS,Lee S,Kang C,Choi W,Han MG

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronaviruses contribute to the burden of respiratory diseases in children, frequently manifesting in upper respiratory symptoms considered to be part of the "common cold." Recent epidemics of novel coronaviruses recognized in the 21st century have highlighted issues of zoonotic origins of transmissible respiratory vi...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Ogimi C,Kim YJ,Martin ET,Huh HJ,Chiu CH,Englund JA

更新日期：2020-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Perinatal screening for Trypanosoma cruzi in a cohort of 4000 predominantly Hispanic women in southern Texas revealed that Chagas disease occurs with sufficient frequency (0.25%) that targeted perinatal screening should be considered to identify infected mothers and infants at risk for congenital infection. ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Edwards MS,Rench MA,Todd CW,Czaicki N,Steurer FJ,Bern C,Montgomery SP

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although long treatment courses of outpatient antimicrobials are often used in pediatric patients, few data exist regarding the frequency of adverse events (AEs) associated with these medications. METHODS:We performed a retrospective cohort study of all patients seen in the Infectious Diseases clinic at a t...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Olson SC,Smith S,Weissman SJ,Kronman MP

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infection were identified. The incidence increased from 3.2/10,000 patient days in 2007 to 5.2/10,000 patient days in 2011 (p < 0.001). Of 169 isolates, the most common North American Pulsed-Field (NAP) types were NAP4 (n = 43; (25.4%), and NAP1 (n = 25;14.8%) ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Le Saux N,Gravel D,Mulvey M,Moore D,Langley JM,Richardson S,Quach C,Choi KB,Miller M,Katz K,Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program.

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies describing the activity of imipenem/relebactam against gram-negative bacilli (GNB) isolated from pediatric patients are lacking in the peer-reviewed literature. We address this deficiency by reporting on GNB tested against imipenem/relebactam as part of the Study for Monitoring Antimicrobial Resistan...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Karlowsky JA,Lob SH,Young K,Motyl MR,Sahm DF

更新日期：2020-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Children who develop malaria after returning to a setting in which the disease is not endemic are at high risk for critical delays in diagnosis and initiation of antimalarial therapy. We assessed the clinical impact of the implementation of malaria rapid diagnostic testing (RDT) on the management of children...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Enane LA,Sullivan KV,Spyridakis E,Feemster KA

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Parechovirus A (PeV-A) is an important cause of sepsis and meningoencephalitis in neonates and young infants. Thus, identifying the source of PeV-A is essential for prevention; however, little is known regarding the spread of PeV-A among family members of PeV-A-infected neonates and young infants. METHODS:I...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Izumita R,Deuchi K,Aizawa Y,Habuka R,Watanabe K,Otsuka T,Saitoh A

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In theory, active surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) reduces MRSA spread by identifying all MRSA-colonized patients and placing them under contact precautions. In October 2007, Illinois mandated active MRSA surveillance in all intensive care units, including neonatal intensive...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Lyles RD,Trick WE,Hayden MK,Lolans K,Fogg L,Logan LK,Shulman ST,Weinstein RA,Lin MY,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Epicenters Program.

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little information on the efficacy and pharmacokinetics of letermovir among immunocompromised children is currently available. We describe here the use of letermovir in a 2-year-old immunocompromised child with ganciclovir-resistant cytomegalovirus disease who required extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Detailed inf...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Pérez Marín M,Decosterd LA,Andre P,Buclin T,Mercier T,Murray K,Rizzi M,Meylan P,Jaton-Ogay K,Opota O,Gengler C,Perez MH,Natterer J,Asner SA

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevention strategies for cytomegalovirus (CMV) in pediatric transplant recipients are sparsely reported. A hybrid strategy that combines prophylaxis with preemptive therapy using serial CMV viral load monitoring is an emerging option. We report our clinical outcomes with a hybrid strategy in pediatric heart...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Lin A,Worley S,Brubaker J,Boyle G,Nasman C,Sabella C,Danziger-Isakov LA

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical and economic outcomes associated with pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) and other supplemental antimicrobial stewardship (AS) interventions have not been well described or reviewed. METHODS:We performed a systematic review using PubMed to identify studies with any of the follo...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Smith MJ,Gerber JS,Hersh AL

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of pediatric patients with invasive fungal disease (IFD). The reported decreasing trend in the incidence of invasive candidiasis (IC) over the past 15 years in both neonates and children has been encouraging. Nevertheless, due to the grow...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Pana ZD,Roilides E,Warris A,Groll AH,Zaoutis T

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite a high burden of staphylococcal skin disease in children and high incidence of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in adult Indigenous populations in northern Australia, there are few studies describing incidence or clinical information of invasive S aureus (ISA) infections in children. METHODS:We cond...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Engelman D,Hofer A,Davis JS,Carapetis JR,Baird RW,Giffard PM,Holt DC,Tong SY

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonia, most often caused by a respiratory virus, is common in childhood. Mycoplasma pneumoniae also is detected frequently, particularly in older children in the era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination. Despite recommendations for β-lactam antibiotics, macrolide antibiotics, including erythromycin, clarithromyci...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Blyth CC,Gerber JS

更新日期：2018-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic makeup of circulating Staphylococcus aureus (SA) populations varies by region. The extent to which SA virulence determinants contribute to the severity of pediatric infections is poorly understood. The study objective was to describe the genetic population of invasive SA (ISA) isolates from child...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Suryadevara M,Clark AE,Wolk DM,Carman A,Rosenbaum PF,Shaw J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 2017-2018 influenza season was of high severity. Circulating influenza strains change periodically, making it important to determine vaccine effectiveness on an annual basis, especially for susceptible populations. The primary aim of our study was to estimate the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine am...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Powell LN,Bégué RE

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common cause of healthcare-associated infection. Multidrug-resistant (MDR) (>3 classes) and carbapenem-resistant (CR) P aeruginosa are significant threats globally. We used a large reference-laboratory database to study the epidemiology of P aeruginosa in children in the United St...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Logan LK,Gandra S,Mandal S,Klein EY,Levinson J,Weinstein RA,Laxminarayan R,Prevention Epicenters Program, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

更新日期：2017-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is caused by infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Physicians in China reported what is believed to be the first adult case of a SARS-CoV-2 infection associated with acute Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), followed by 5 adult Italian patients and anoth...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Khalifa M,Zakaria F,Ragab Y,Saad A,Bamaga A,Emad Y,Rasker JJ

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In November 2020, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided Emergency Use Authorizations (EUA) for two novel virus-neutralizing monoclonal antibody therapies, bamlanivimab, and REGN-COV2 (casirivimab plus imdevimab), for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adolescents and adults in specifi...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Wolf J,Abzug MJ,Wattier RL,Sue PK,Vora SB,Zachariah P,Dulek DE,Waghmare A,Olivero R,Downes KJ,James SH,Pinninti SG,Yarbrough A,Aldrich ML,MacBrayne CE,Soma VL,Grapentine SP,Oliveira CR,Hayes M,Kimberlin DW,Jones S

更新日期：2021-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cartridge-based nucleic acid amplification test (CB-NAAT) has been recommended for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in children, but its wide use is limited by high cost and the need for well-equipped laboratories. This study was conducted in children with pulmonary TB to compare the diagnostic yield of TB-LAM...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Dayal R,Yadav A,Agarwal D,Kumar M,Kamal R,Singh D,Bhatnagar S

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Among newborns with congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection from China, there was no difference in CMV viral load in saliva specimens dried and stored at room temperature compared with those kept wet and stored cold, even after longer storage time for the former than the later (74 vs 58 days, P = .02). ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Xu A,Wang S,Zhang W,Wang X,Wang T,Liu X,Wang H,Ma W,Amin M,Dollard S,Wang C

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Data on long-term toxicity of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected children are sparse. PENPACT-1 was an open-label trial in which HIV-infected children were assigned randomly to receive protease inhibitor (PI)- or nonnucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-based ART. Methods:We examined ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Melvin AJ,Warshaw M,Compagnucci A,Saidi Y,Harrison L,Turkova A,Tudor-Williams G,PENPACT-1 (PENTA 9\/PACTG 390\/ANRS 103) Study Team.

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Evaluation for neonatal sepsis routinely includes performing both aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures despite our lack of knowledge of the true incidence of anaerobic bacteremia in this age group and the consequences of not performing these paired cultures. Methods:We performed a retrospective review of al...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Messbarger N,Neemann K

更新日期：2018-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a retrospective study to evaluate suboptimal discharge antibiotic prescribing at a children's hospital and found that 27% of the prescriptions were suboptimal. Thirty-three percent of the patients who might have qualified for solid dosage forms received liquid dosages instead. Our findings suggest that op...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Olson J,Thorell EA,Hersh AL

更新日期：2019-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Our goal was to characterize the epidemiology and clinical significance of congenital Zika virus (ZIKV) exposure by prospectively following a cohort of infants with possible congenital exposure through their first year of life. METHODS:We included infants born in New York City between 2016 and 2017 who had ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Lee EH,Cooper H,Iwamoto M,Lash M,Conners EE,Bloch D,Clark S,Hrusa G,Kubinson H,Paladini M,McGibbon E,Rakeman JL,Fine AD,Limberger RJ,Liu D,Slavinski S,New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Zika Working Gro

更新日期：2020-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Across 12 consecutive influenza seasons in Utah, medically-attended visits for laboratory-confirmed influenza infection peaked first among older children (12-18 years). Peak activity in older children preceded that of children 0-4 years by more than 2 days and that of peak activity among adults ≥65 years by more than ...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Stockmann C,Pavia AT,Hersh AL,Spigarelli MG,Castle B,Korgenski K,Byington CL,Ampofo K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Actinomycetes are Gram-positive bacteria that can be part of the normal human flora of the gastrointestinal, pulmonary, and genital tract. Infections are rare, slowly progressing and most commonly affect the cervicofacial region. Actinomyces israelii is the most frequently isolated species but a number of other specie...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Walther K,Bruder E,Goldenberger D,Mayr J,Schaad UB,Ritz N

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E-consults replace "curbside" interactions, facilitate provider-specialist communication, document within the medical record, and track relative value units (RVUs). Pediatric infectious diseases (PID) E-consults commonly relate to vaccines, exposures, diagnoses, and treatments. The documented RVU effort of 197 consecu...

journal_title：Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

authors： Gonzalez BE,Sabella C,Esper FP,Daniels HL,Saracusa C,Boutros J,Foster CB

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00