Infectious Disease News Current Issue
The following articles appeared in the print edition of Infectious Disease News.
Table of Contents
- Confronting the misnomer of ‘chronic’ Lyme disease
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- After vaccine, meningococcal disease risk still high with Soliris use
- Coalition: Proposed cuts to global health investments a job-killer in US
- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever spreads to Spain
- Enhanced antibiotic prophylaxis lowers death rate in patients with advanced HIV
- Epidemic strains of C. difficile found in playground sandboxes
- Experts warn again of drug-resistant gonorrhea
- Gunshot injury paraplegics face escalated, costly infectious disease challenges
- Members of presidential HIV/AIDS council explain reasons for resigning, staying
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- Meningitis vaccine shows protection against gonorrhea
- New HIV diagnoses among MSM in London fall by 25%
- Officials warn of ‘worrying’ rise in HIV drug resistance
- Oral ABSSSI treatment omadacycline meets primary endpoints in phase 3 trial
- Pneumococcal vaccine series uptake low despite ACIP recommendation
- Three Gorges Dam decreased rate of schistosomiasis around Chinese lake
- Undercooked walrus meat causes two trichinellosis outbreaks in Alaska
- No evidence to support prolonged antibiotic use for Lyme disease
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- Universal HCV screening is a pathway to eradication Michael S. Saag, MD
- Of mice and men: Hantavirus infections represent a global problem Thomas M Yuill, PhD; Donald Kaye, MD, MACP
- MRSA over 3 decades: A pathogen with ‘devastating complications’
- C. auris survives 7 days on moist or dry surfaces
- Cytokines predict TB recurrence in patients on ART
- German hand hygiene campaign nearly doubles hand rub use in hospitals
- In Uganda, pregnant women with UTI symptoms greatly overconsume antibiotics
- Low-cost, yeast-based assay reliably detects fungal pathogens
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- Nurse stealing opioids from patients’ syringes responsible for hospital outbreak
- Smallpox, BCG vaccines associated with decreased HIV-1 risk
- Stethoscope hygiene nonexistent even after educational intervention
- Study shows no link between Lyme disease and depression
- Child with HIV suppresses virus for more than 8 years without ART
- Fearing drug interactions, transgender women may skip HIV, hormone therapy
- LATTE-2: Two-drug injectable ART regimen as effective as three-drug oral regimen
- C. difficile action plan at Denver Health Medical Center Amelia Nelson, PharmD
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