A new study highlights distinct features that can distinguish true infection from incidental pathogen carriage.
A study suggests that those with the healthiest overall sleep patterns have a 26% lower risk of pneumonia.
In patients who had achieved clinical stability by day 3 of hospitalization, short- and longer-course antibiotic treatments had similar mortality and readmission rates.
The pace of reductions since 2015 has slowed by more than 60%.
The vast majority of patients in the study (94%) were hospitalized, and the 30-day death rate was 12%.
Global data show overall deaths from lower respiratory infections declined from 1990 to 2021, but the proportion of deaths from drug-resistant infections is rising.
Relative to people of healthy weight, those with class 3 obesity were 3 times more likely to be hospitalized for or die of infection.
Older adults have higher risks of certain diseases because they have more underlying illnesses and because immune systems weaken with age.
There are two licensed vaccines for Ebola virus, but no vaccines are licensed for Sudan virus or Marburg virus.
For flu, the sensitivity of the definition was 76% and specificity was 31%; for RSV, those numbers were 71% and 39%, respectively.
