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Cryptosporidium: A Potentially Fatal Cause of Diarrhea in a Heart Transplant RecipientExpanding the differential for diarrhea beyond Clostridium difficile.
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Using Deep Sequencing Technology to Detect HCV Resistant VariantsA research team from the Netherlands turns to deep sequencing technology to detect hepatitis C virus resistant variants.
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The ID Pipeline: Drug Development Debrief | Week of September 13, 2020A quick debrief of the week’s top FDA approvals, FDA authorizations, or other infectious disease pipeline developments from the past week.
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Medical Importance of Microbial Biofilms in the Management of Infectious DiseasesBiofilms are an emerging clinical problem despite the fact that most clinicians don’t even think of biofilms when managing infections.
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MSM Who Use Mobile Apps for Sex More Likely to Have STIsMen who have sex with men who seek out sexual partners online are more likely to report sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.
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Globalization of Antibiotic Stewardship Programs: The World Is WaitingThe globalization of antibiotic stewardship programs is necessary in the fight against antibiotic resis­tance.
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Treatment as Prevention: A Comprehensive Approach to Hepatitis C Virus in Persons Who Inject DrugsWith IV drug use accounting for 60% of new infections, treatment for individuals in this population is necessary to stave off new infections.
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Optimal Vancomycin Dosing in Obese Patients: Moving Toward the AUCThis In the Literature piece explores if we can mitigate some of the adverse reactions that are being seen in obese patients who receive vancomycin through AUC-dosing.
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Tick, Tick, Tick: Vector-Borne Diseases Ramp UpInfections transmitted by these bloodsucking species are on the rise worldwide.
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Will Pennsylvania Proposal Sanction Improper Treatment of Lyme Disease?Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FIDSA argues that a bill being considered in the Pennsylvania state legislature will ultimately result in increased antibiotic resistance and will set back the clock for finding appropriate treatments for Lyme disease.
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Manual Surface Disinfectants Must Continue to Evolve to Meet Changing Health Care NeedsMany health care facilities are looking to expand the use of broad-spectrum sporicidal disinfectants beyond patient isolation rooms to better address the role of the environment in pathogen transmission and acquisition.
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GSK Achieves Primary Endpoints Meningococcal ABCWY Vaccine for Phase 3 TrialIf FDA approved, this 5-in-1 investigational candidate could provide the broadest meningococcal serogroup coverage.
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What's on Your Antimicrobial Stewardship "Wish List"?If resources and funds were unlimited, what would the ideal stewardship program look like?
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Changes in Therapy Guideline for Nosocomial PneumoniaContagion® Editorial Advisory Board member, Khalid Eljaaly, PharmD, BCPS, CAPP, discusses key updates in the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society recommendations.
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NIH Awards $4.8 Million to University to Fight Potentially Fatal Fungal InfectionThe National Institutes of Health has awarded a 4-year, $4.8 million grant to the University of Arizona to speed up the development of delta-CPS1, a vaccine candidate to fight valley fever.
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China Confirms Case of Bubonic PlagueHealth officials in China have confirmed a case of bubonic plague in a herdsman from the Inner Mongolia district, triggering increased prevention measures throughout the region.
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It Adapts to Us, We Adapt to It: Living With the Ever-Changing SARS-CoV-2As COVID-19 evolves, learning how to live with a virus that has become endemic will have its challenges, but medical science will help the public be able to accept it.
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Lower Respiratory Infections Linked with Influenza Lead to Substantial Global Health LossIn 2017, lower respiratory tract infections linked with influenza were responsible for an estimated 145,000 deaths worldwide.
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Current and Potential Treatment Options for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia InfectionsWe review current and emerging treatment options for infections caused by the difficult-to-treat, intrinsically multidrug-resistant organism Stenotrophomonas maltophilia.
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COVID-19: A PrimerThis virus has multiple facets and highlights a need for real-time learning.
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Intra-abdominal Infection With Eikenella corrodens in a Woman With Ovarian Cancer“A bite bug in the belly.”
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Examining An Emergence of Multi-drug Resistance Among Candida SpeciesDespite having emerged as either the third or fourth leading cause of blood stream infections in the United States, the threat of multi-drug resistant Candida species remains an underappreciated concern.
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What Can We Learn From Outbreaks of HIV and Zika?Parallels between the recent Zika epidemic in Brazil and the HIV pandemic in the 1980s, stress the importance of improving responses to public health crises.
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Antibiograms for Optimizing Empiric Therapy: Use Them WiselyAn understanding of the limitations in their functionality and strategies for more appropriate applications are necessary for clinicians.
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Public Health Watch: “Rebound” COVID-19 Cases Following Paxlovid Treatment a “Scientific” But Not “Clinical” ConcernGovernment agencies and researchers continue to monitor the potentially troubling trend.
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Survey Finds US Hospitals Falling Short on Preventing C. Difficile InfectionA survey of 571 US hospitals regarding practices used to prevent Clostridium difficile infection indicates that nearly half of the facilities appear to not be taking steps to prevent the infection that kills nearly 30,000 people and sickens hundreds of thousands more each year, despite strong evidence that these steps work.
