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Pharmacists, learn more about nirsevimab and how you can help to protect infants from RSV, the leading cause of hospitalization in infants under the age of 1.

The ACIP’s recent recommendations on RSV vaccines for adults aged 60 and above emphasize shared clinical decision-making. Ensure you’re informed to best guide your patients’ choices.

The FDA’s approval of Beyfortus offers a promising tool for RSV disease prevention in neonates and young children. This novel intervention, underscored by robust clinical trial data, marks a crucial stride towards protecting infant health in the US.

An essential component of successfully enhancing transplant outcomes is early viral infection prevention. Clinically severe viral infections have been successfully avoided in hematopoietic cell transplant patients with prophylactic and preventive therapy with antiviral medications. Through a better understanding of the biology and risk factors, the introduction of novel antiviral agents, and developments in immunotherapy, significant progress has been made in the past few decades in preventing viral infections. There is solid proof that herpes simplex virus, varicella-zoster virus, and CMV infection and illness can be prevented. There is a dearth of information on how to effectively prevent infections with human herpesvirus 6, Epstein-Barr virus, adenovirus, and BK virus.

“The point I want to make specifically to the young people in the crowd—the pre-docs, the postdocs, the young investigators—is that what happens in this meeting in a very incipient form over a period of time becomes the reality of what we are dealing with and then the implementation of something that’s clinically actionable,” Fauci said as the keynote speaker at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2023.

This 62-year-old man had a lung transplant 3 years previously for IPF and is on tacrolimus, mycophenolate, and prednisone. Which therapy is most appropriate for their zoster outbreak? IV acyclovir Oral famciclovir Oral valacyclovir Herpes zoster vaccine