Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- US correctional facilities: Complex approach needed for HIV, HCV screening, treatment
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- AAP backs revised rabies vaccine dose
- Cholera outbreak shows need for safer water, questionable role for vaccines
- Experts debate intervention strategies for health care-associated infections
- HPV vaccine tolerated across three dosing schedules in Vietnam
- Measles outbreaks reported across Europe
- New meningitis vaccine successful in Africa
- One-third of articles about vaccines contained negative messages
- Parents may be willing to allow genetic testing for adult conditions in their children
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- Physicians recommend different treatments than they choose for themselves
- Public health officials can do more to streamline influenza vaccine delivery in community settings
- Latest developments in global awareness of antimicrobial resistance
- National initiative aims to improve health care and lower costs
- Widespread use of online personal health records inhibited by ‘digital divide’
- AFP surveillance varied at subnational levels
- Children appear more likely to fail triple-drug ART regimen
- Community-based intervention improved HIV testing in developing countries
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- Drug resistance increased risk for virologic failure with first-line ART
- Easily accessed medical records key during measles outbreaks
- Guidelines needed to reduce nosocomial infections in pediatric units
- Levels of HIV-1 RNA in genital secretions predict risk for heterosexual transmission of virus
- New vaginal gel formulation promising for HIV-1 prevention
- Rapid TB/MDR-TB test shown effective in resource-limited settings
- Risk for transmission comparable among symptomatic, asymptomatic HSV-2
- Vancomycin guideline effective in neonatal ICUs
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- Children with short bowel syndrome at high risk for polymicrobial CLABSI
- Multifaceted approach needed to better control C. difficile in hospitals
- New iPhone application improved hand hygiene compliance
- New policy strategies needed to contain MRSA spread across hospitals
- Prevention program bested standard protocol, reduced C. difficile infections
- Food animal production affects worldwide antibiotic resistance