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Test performs comparably to standard reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assays using whole blood and buccal swab specimens.

Study results show there are minimal drug-drug interactions between tenofovir alafenamide-based antiretroviral regimens for HIV and ledipasvir/sofosbuvir combination treatment for hepatitis C.

Treatment simplification maintains viral suppression and reduces proteinuria, potentially improving treatment adherence.

Treatment-experienced patients with HIV who switched to a tenofovir alafenamide-based treatment regimen maintained excellent virologic suppression while exhibiting significant improvements in both bone and renal safety.

IDWeek has become much more integrated and does an excellent job in helping specialists take their shared information to make their clinical practices better.

The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases reports promising preclinical results on an antiviral for Ebola. In findings presented at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA, Travis Warren, PhD, a principal investigator said a collaboration with Gilead on a compound known as GS-5734 completely protected rhesus monkeys after they were infected with the virus.

In the UK's National Health Service, physicians are "bare below the elbows" meaning they wear scrubs and not white coats, dress shirts and ties. At ID Week, in an entertaining but serious debate, two infection control specialists tackled the question of whether US physicians should also go bare.

ID Week is the most relevant and important meeting for ID as a whole.

The Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's use of less intensive immunosuppressants contributes to the fewer incidences of infectious disease complications in transplant patients.

Nine million US children have not been vaccinated for measles, raising concerns that there could be major outbreaks of the illness, researchers said at ID Week 2015.

Neurologists seeing patients with seizures who are from developing countries in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and other countries with much poverty and poor sanitation should be on the lookout for neurocysticercosis, a condition related to exposure to tapeworms.

As a medical epidemiologist for Long-term Care in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nimalie Stone ensures seven core elements of stewardship are maintained throughout longterm care: leadership commitment, accountability, drug expertise, action, tracking, reporting, and education.

Nursing homes of today are what hospitals looked like 10 or 15 years ago.

Enterovirus D68 caused hundreds of hospitalizations and five deaths across the US in 2014. It left many mysteries, including why so many people got it since a CDC study showed the US populace is basically immune the virus, one discovered in 1962. Why it was linked to paralysis in some children is also unclear. But three experts at ID Week 2015 today agreed, EV-D68 will be back.

Patients on non-recommended treatment regimens are less likely to achieve viral suppression and more likely to report side effects.

Researchers report that waiting more than 2 years between HIV screenings is associated with double the rate of AIDS by CD4+ criteria at the time of HIV diagnosis when compared with more frequent testing.

The new guidelines provide important updates in four key areas, including behavioral screening for possible HIV transmission, sexually transmitted disease screening and treatment, HIV partner services, and referral for medical and social services.

Overuse of urinary catheters is a common problem in all hospitals. Intervention is possible.

A University of Colorado School of Medicine hypothesized that the nasal microbiome could be protective against MRSA colonization in some individuals. Reporting at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA, Mary Bessenden, MD and colleges looked at 26 persistently MRSA colonized people and 26 non-colonized controls.

The problem of antibiotic resistance is a national health problem, a national security problem, and a global problem. The hope is that we'll get more of our citizens involved and active in playing a role in addressing this crisis.

Hospital-associated infections can be better identified and contained through technology, a multi-institutional team reports.

Young suburban heroin users who were admitted recently to a Princeton, NJ drug rehab facility showed an unexpectedly high incidence of hepatitis C infection.

Co-infection with malaria appears to give people who are infected with Ebola virus a better chance of recovering, Scripps Institute researchers found in West Africa.

No one was more shocked than local HIV specialists when an epidemic of HIV hit a small town in Indiana. Diane Janowicz, MD, a Bloomington, Indiana AIDS/HIV specialist gave ID Week attendees a detailed description of how she and other health officials and entities handled the case.

What do you do when you need to test drug therapies for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome but the usual animal subjects do not get the disease? Easy, you just engineer a new kind of mouse.

Ian Crozier, MD, an infectious disease expert working treating Ebola patients in West Africa, had to admit himself to his own emergency treatment unit. His riveting account of his recovery included an episode in which virus lurking in one eye turned it from blue to green. Crozier got a standing ovation in his talk today at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA.

Cats and dogs can be vectors for an eye parasite, a multi-center team in the US Southwest reports. The parasite is called Onchocerca lupi. Six cases, believed to be the first in the US, are reported.

Doctors appear to be overprescribing fluoroquinolones for women with uncomplicated urinary tract infections.

Patients who are morbidly obese need a revised dosing protocol when getting vancomycin.

Canadian researchers found a "troubling trend" in an increase in dentists prescribing antibiotics to patients.