Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- AIDS Compendium
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- Alert systems may increase mammogram screening rates for women with HIV
- Antibiotic use linked to MRSA risk
- Candidate prepandemic flu vaccine showing good efficacy in children
- Glanders: an ancient zoonosis revisited Arnon Shimshony, DVM
- Hand washing, face masks may significantly reduce spread of influenza-like illness
- Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation may increase risk for morbidity, mortality among people with leukemia
- HIV/cryptococcal meningitis co-infection linked to immune reconstitution syndrome
- Increase of S. pneumoniae 19A serotype reported in Canada
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- Increasing risk of antibiotic resistance demands immediate global action
- New evidence dates diverse HIV strains from Africa to 1960
- Protective effect of circumcision in MSM remains in question
- Rapid diagnostic tests can improve quality of treatment if used appropriately
- Three- step approach reduced hospital stay for people with CA pneumonia
- Treatment with mupirocin, chlorhexidine may reduce risk for S. aureus infections
- Waning immunity may not have been only cause of 2006 mumps outbreak
- Influenza vaccinations: Don’t stop now William Schaffner, MD
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- Are all carbapenems the same? Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP