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Brianna Norton, DO, MPH, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, talks about challenges of Hepatitis C treatment.

Brianna Norton, DO, MPH, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, talks about the hottest topic in infectious disease.

Tom Chiller, MD, MPH, Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, talks about treatment options for Candida auris and multi-drug resistant treatment options.

Tom Chiller, MD, MPH, Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses Candida auris.

Are healthcare workers who wear glasses or contacts more likely to get colds and flu? Researchers at Johns Hopkins report on a study with intriguing findings.

In a sign of the growing global problem of drug resistance, researchers from Ohio reported a steady increase in the percentages of cases of gonorrhea that did not respond to the usual antibiotics.

Could the interaction of Zika virus with similar flaviviruses like Dengue and Chikungunya be the reason why Zika virus has turned so virulent after decades of being a minor illness?

Although there was widespread circulation of influenza viruses that were antigenically drifted from the vaccine virus, last year's flu vaccine appears to have been effective in preventing severe illness requiring hospitalization.

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.

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

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.

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

Even when staph bacteria are not drug resistant, clinicians face prescribing drugs that could cause an adverse reaction including kidney injury. A Pittsburgh team looked at the comparative risk of nafcillin vs. oxacillin.

Jeff Duchin, MD, of the Seattle and King County Departments of Public Health, discusses enterovirus and the relationship with treatment during cold and flu season.

Results from a study of herpes zoster incidence following periods of acute stress in a large cohort of patients suggest the conventional wisdom on this subject may be wrong.

Implementation of computerized customized order entry sets in a large urban hospital reduced HIV medication error rates by more than 35%.

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