Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- Technology, climate changes foster emerging diseases threat
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- ACIP recommends HBV vaccination for adults with diabetes
- ACIP recommends updates to 2012 adult immunization schedule
- Antimicrobial use associated with risk for campylobacteriosis
- Brief incarceration interrupted ART, led to virologic failure in IDUs
- Children who have HIV, S. aureus more likely to have severe illness
- Clinton establishes goal of AIDS-free generation
- Community counseling reduced the prevalence of TB
- Drug combination effective for treating uncomplicated malaria in children
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- Drug interventions needed to prevent HCV among young adults
- H1N1 pandemic less severe among adults with history of flu
- Herd effect of PCV7 in children reduced pneumococcal carriage in Gambia
- HTLV-1 infection increased risk for bronchiectasis
- Improvements needed for accurate vaccination coverage rates
- Increased contraception use noted among teens
- Infant varicella incidence declined after implementation of national vaccine program
- Influenza viruses may co-circulate
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- Intervention aims to reduce HIV rates in Hispanic youth
- Invasive H. influenzae disease still a burden in US
- Pharyngitis linked to oral antibiotic use for acne treatment
- Technologies facilitated safety surveillance of 2009 flu vaccine in UK
- Transplant recipients at increased risk for various cancer types
- Updates focus on new indications for 2011-2012 vaccines
- Community viral load as prevention
- Trench fever re-emergence in the urban jungle
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- FDA committee recommends pneumococcal vaccine in adults
- Serosurveillance system recommended in Canada
- Group A streptococcus outbreak emphasized need for infection programs
- Abnormalities identified in the liver after HCV eradication
- Boceprevir-based regimens bested standard therapy in prediction model
- Multidisciplinary program bested traditional method in HCV treatment
- Pharmacogenomic testing consent failed to yield selection bias