What's Hot This Year in Infectious Diseases Clinical Science

2025/01/29 by Jeffrey A. Freiberg, Patty Wright · 1 voice
Health Professions · Medicine · #Electronic Health Records Systems #Ethics in Clinical Research #Health Sciences Research and Education

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/cid/ciaf037

openalex publication_date 2025/01/29 · openalex created_date 2025/02/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Clinical science in the field of infectious diseases (ID) moved at a rapid pace in 2024. Among the highlights were multiple trials of new antibiotics and new approaches to prevent infections. Concerning trends, with outbreaks of dengue, measles, mpox, and highly pathogenic avian influenza A in 2024, demonstrate the importance of ID and the continued need for further advances through clinical science. This review highlights some of the most important trials and clinical trends in ID over the past year.

Citations

• Global mortality associated with 33 bacterial pathogens in 2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

Discussions

• Thanks @contagionlive.bsky.social for the opportunity to highlight some of the hot ID topics from 2024 that we covered in our recent review: doi.org/10.1093/cid/... Always great to be able to talk [bsky, 3 points, 1 comments]

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