Infectious Diseases

Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis

• IDSA clinical practice guideline for acute bacterial rhinosinusitis in children and adults. (Clin Infect Dis. 2012)
• Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Bacterial Sinusitis in Children Aged 1 to 18 Years. (Pediatrics. 2013)

Acute Otitis Media

• The diagnosis and management of acute otitis media.  (Pediatrics 2013)
• Shortened Antimicrobial Treatment for Acute Otitis Media in Young Children. (NEJM 2016)

Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Antibiotic Stewardship in Pediatrics. (Pediatrics 2021)
• Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs. (J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2017)

Bone and Joint Infections

• Comparative effectiveness of intravenous vs. oral antibiotics for post discharge treatment of acute osteomyelitis in children. (JAMA Pediatr 2014)
• Clinical Practice Guideline by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America: 2021 Guideline on Diagnosis and Management of Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis in Pediatrics. (J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2021)
• Bone and Joint Infections. (Pediatr Infect Dis J.2017)

Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections

• Catheter-related bloodstream infections in children. (Am J Infect Control 2008)
• Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (Clin Infect Dis. 2009)

Clostidrium Difficile

• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Clostridium difficile Infection in Adults and Children: 2017 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). (Clinical Infectious Diseases 2018)

Community Acquired Pneumonia

• The management of community-acquired pneumonia in infants and children older than 3 months of age: clinical practice guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.  (Clin Infect Dis. 2011).
• Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children: Rapid Evidence Review. (Am Fam Physician. 2021)

Conjunctivitis

• Conjunctivitis. (Pediatr Rev 2010)
• Antibiotics versus placebo for acute bacterial conjunctivitis. (Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2006)

Croup

• Croup: An Overview. (Am Fam Physician. 2011)
• Croup: Diagnosis and Management. (Am Fam Physician. 2018) 
• Viral Croup. (Pediatr Rev 2001)

Endocarditis

• Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (Circulation 2005)
• Infective Endocarditis in Childhood: 2015 Update. A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. (Circulation 2015)

Epiglottitis

• Epiglottitis: Diagnosis and Treatment. (Pediatr Rev 1979)

Fever

• Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation and Management of Well-Appearing Febrile Infants 8 to 60 Days Old. (Pediatrics. 2021)
• Evaluation of Fever in Infants and Young Children. (Am Fam Physician. 2020)

Fungal Infections

• Fungal Skin Infections. (Pediatr Rev 2017)
• Antifungal agents for common paediatric infections. (Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol. 2008)
• Invasive Candidiasis in Infants and Children: Recent Advances in Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. (J Fungi (Basel). 2019) 

Gastroenterology 

• Diagnosis and management of complicated intra-abdominal infections in adults and children: guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America. (Clin Infect Dis 2010)
• 2017 Infectious Diseases Society of America Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Infectious Diarrhea. (Clinical Infectious Diseases 2018)

Group A streptococcal pharyngitis

• Clinical practice guideline for the diagnosis and management of group A streptococcal pharyngitis: 2012 updated by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (Clin Infect Dis. 2012)
• IDSA Updates Guideline for Managing Group A Streptococcal Pharyngitis. (Am Fam Physician. 2013)
• Streptococcal Pharyngitis. (N Engl J Med 2011)

Immunizations

• Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Vaccine Recommendations. CDC Website

Impetigo

• Impetigo: Diagnosis and Treatment. (Am Fam Physician. 2014)

HIV

• Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection
• Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in lts and Adolescents Living with HIV
• Preventing and Managing HIV Infection in Infants, Children, and Adolescents in the United States. (Pediatr Rev 2014)

Meningitis

• Aseptic and Bacterial Meningitis: Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention. (Am Fam Physician. 2017)
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis. (Clinical Infectious Diseases 2017)
• Management of Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Children. (Infect Drug Resist. 2020)
• Practice Guidelines for the Management of Bacterial Meningitis. (Clin Infect Dis. 2004)

MRSA Infection

• Clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America for the treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in adult and children: executive summary.  (Clin Infect Dis. 2011)
• Update on the Epidemiology and Treatment of MRSA Infections in Children. (Curr Pediatr Rep 2013)
• Vancomycin Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Children: New Recommendations, Similar Challenges. (J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2020)
• Therapeutic monitoring of vancomycin for serious methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections: A revised consensus guideline. (AJHP 2020)
  

RSV/Bronchiolitis

• Updated guidance for palivizumab prophylaxis among infants and young children at increased risk of hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus infection. (Pediatrics 2014)
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus Bronchiolitis in Children. (Am Fam Physician 2017)
• Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection and Bronchiolitis. (Pediatrics in Review 2014) 

Parasitic Infections

• Parasitic infections of the gut in children. (Paediatr Int Child Health. 2019)
• Protozoan Parasites. (Pediatr Rev 2016)
• Neglected Parasitic Infections: What Family Physicians Need to Know—A CDC Update. (Am Fam Physician. 2021) 

Sexually Transmitted Diseases 

• CDC STI Treatment Guidelines

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections 

• Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: 2014 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (Clinical Infectious Diseases 2014)

Shunt Infections 

• Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunting Complications in Children. (Pediatr Neurosurg. 2017) 
• Treatment and microbiology of repeated cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections in children. (Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2011)
• 2017 Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis and Meningitis. (Clin Infect Dis. 2017) 

Surgical Prophylaxis

• ASHP Clinical practice guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery (AJHP 2013)

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Infection in Children and Adolescents: Testing and Treatment. (Pediatrics 2021) 

Urinary Tract Infection

• Urinary Tract Infection: Clinical Practice Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of the Initial UTI in Febrile Infants and Children 2 to 24 Months. (Pediatrics Sep 2011)
• Urinary Tract Infections and Vesicoureteral Reflux in Infants and Children. (Pediatrics in Review 2010)
• Urinary Tract Infections in Children: Knowledge Updates and a Salute to the Future. (Pediatrics in Review April 2015)
• Contemporary Management of Urinary Tract Infection in Children.(Pediatrics 2021) 
• Urinary Tract Infection in Children. (Recent Pat Inflamm Allergy Drug Discov. 2019).

Viral Encephalitis

• Encephalitis in US Children. (Infect Dis Clin North Am. 2018)