Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- Increased HIV prevention, treatment efforts needed in MSM
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- Additional targeted interventions urged to interrupt polio transmission
- Appropriate antimicrobial therapy reduced mortality rates in A. baumannii
- ART errors common on day of hospital admission in patients with HIV
- ART treatment interruption may lead to virological failure, drug resistance
- BI strain of C. difficile associated with lower cure rate, high recurrence rate
- C. perfringens outbreak kills 3 in Louisiana psychiatric hospital
- C. trachomatis, M. genitalium often persist after treatment for nongonococcal urethritis
- CDC changes treatment recommendations for gonorrhea infections
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- CDC issues seasonal influenza vaccine recommendations
- CDC recommends one-time hepatitis C test for all baby boomers
- CDC reports significant increase in cases of influenza A/H3N2
- Disseminated TB caused death in half of patients in sub-Saharan Africa
- Efficacy of miltefosine declined for visceral leishmaniasis in India
- Health technologies donated to low- and middle-income countries not always useful
- Hepatitis programs in Egypt improved disease burden
- Heterogeneity exists in infectious disease prevalence rates in homeless people
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- HPV test superior to Pap for long-term prediction of cancer risk
- Influenza vaccine effectiveness low among US military personnel
- Laboratory-based surveillance better for public reporting of HAIs
- Macrolide regimens for CAP may not offer survival benefit
- Mexico establishes universal health care within 10 years
- New rule requires physicians to file health insurance claim payments electronically
- Progress stymied in reducing HIV-related risk behaviors among students
- Rabies post-exposure prophylaxis not always adequate
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- Race/ethnicity associated with ART adherence
- Scoring system may identify patients at risk for SSI after arthroplasty
- Shorter course of doxycycline effective treatment for erythema migrans
- Suboptimal vaccine effectiveness against influenza A/H3N2 identified
- Summer 2012 brought many ID outbreaks around the world
- USA300 MRSA strain not more virulent than USA100 strain
- C. difficile: Microbial emergency across US hospitals without effective therapy Herbert L. DuPont, MD, MACP
- Value based purchasing effect on ID physicians Keith S. Kaye, MD, MPH; Molly Tims
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- FDA approves vaccines for 2012-2013 influenza season
- Children who contract HIV from mothers more likely to develop sepsis
- Drug-resistant TB passed through families
- Finger-stick and oral rapid HIV testing accepted by patients in ED
- Highly infectious TB detected via 2 or 3 symptoms in those with HIV
- Infections linked to significantly worse outcomes in STEMI patients
- Lack of circumcision could add to health care costs
- Antifungal therapy monitoring may be new standard of care Kati Shihadeh, PharmD, BCIDP; Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP
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