Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- Infectious disease and the evolution of AIDS
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- Better communication with patients may help avoid medical malpractice suits
- Progress to bring MRSA under control worldwide
- Aged-based screening bested risk-based screening in liver disease
- Antibiotics once thought harmful to children in utero now deemed safe by obstetricians, gynecologists
- Better efforts needed for routine STD screening in black adolescents
- Childhood deaths from diarrhea reduced in Brazil after rotavirus vaccination added to immunization schedule
- Coinfections of B. pertussis, respiratory viruses may just be coincidence
- Dengue, chikungunya increased in UK travelers
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- Dietary supplements mistaken for antibiotics
- FDA approves fidaxomicin for C. difficile infection
- FDA clears toxoplasmosis parasite test for pregnant women
- FDA panel backs dosing instructions for acetaminophen
- Fidaxomicin minimally absorbed, even in severe C. difficile
- Filipino children at elevated risk for blood vessel inflammation associated with Kawasaki disease
- Gastroenterologists' knowledge of vaccinations in IBD patients lacking
- Hepatitis B infection high in Hispanic women
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- Hepatitis C cases climb along with injection drug use
- HHS program seeks to improve patient safety
- Immediate ART in HIV patients prevented infection in partners
- Intervention increased black, Hispanic participation in HIV/AIDS clinical trials
- Investigational HIV-1 vaccine failed to protect against HIV-1 in South Africa
- Linezolid bested vancomycin in MRSA ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Meningitis cases low, yet mortality high in older adults
- N. gonorrhoeae with reduced susceptibility to azithromycin detected in MSM
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- Neuropathy noted in children taking prolonged courses of linezolid
- NIAID director comments on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
- Online tool helps track dengue spread
- PCR testing for B. burgdorferi DNA not a reliable indicator for active infection in Lyme arthritis
- Pneumococcal vaccine effective in older adults
- Researchers link school closings to decrease in H1N1 transmission in Mexico
- Screening immigrants for TB prevented latent TB, additional active cases
- Surgery was strongest predictor for survival in cholangiocarcinoma
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- Vaccinating parents with Tdap may lower rate of infant pertussis hospitalizations
- Mobile technologies, social media ignite HIV prevention revolution in Africa
- Health professionals appear concerned about bias in commercially funded CME
- China reported 60% decrease in HIV-related mortality, yet far from overall goal
- Evidence lacking for skin infestation in patients with delusions of parasitosis
- Insecticide resistance, herd immunity raise concerns for future dengue epidemics
- No reported CLABSIs in Michigan ICUs for up to 2 years
- Simple UTIs not so simple after all Kimberly Boeser, PharmD, MPH, BCIDP
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