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    Decolonization strategy reduces MRSA colonization at multiple body sitesA new analysis of a randomized clinical trial shows that a repeated post-discharge decolonization regimen for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriers reduced MRSA colonization overall and at multiple body sites, researchers reported yesterday in Clinical Infectious Diseases.The…

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    Data suggest 4CMenB protection against gonorrhea and support the feasibility of a gonococcal vaccine.

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    Although disseminated gonococcal infection rates are relatively low, researchers said it remains a serious complication of gonorrhea. “Rates of reported gonorrhea have increased in the United States since 2009, with over 600,000 cases reported in 2019,” CDC epidemiologist Emily J. Weston, MPH, told Healio. “Although thought to be an infrequent complication, gonococcal infection

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    There was a “profound” reduction in testing rates for chlamydia, gonorrhea, HIV and syphilis in Southern California during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections. Along with reduced testing, there were reductions in the rates of diagnosis for chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV, whereas syphilis diagnoses actually increased.

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