Pulmonary Nocardiosis.

abstract：:Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disorders that share a common spongiform histopathology. TSEs may be transmitted in a sporadic, familial, iatrogenic, or zoonotic fashion. The putative infectious agent of TSE, the prion, represents a novel paradigm of...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Janka J,Maldarelli F

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients may be exposed to diseases which may be prevented through live attenuated virus vaccines (LAVV). Because of their immunosuppression, these diseases can lead to severe complications in transplant recipients. Despite increasing evidence regarding the safety a...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Verolet CM,Posfay-Barbe KM

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malaria is a devastating disease, inflicting epidemic morbidity and mortality with an estimated 500 million cases and 2.5 million deaths annually. Children suffer the most severe morbidity; one child dies of malaria every 30 seconds, accounting for over 1 million of the deaths annually. There continues to be a tremend...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Stauffer WM,Kamat D

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. After half a century of focal outbreaks of acute febrile polyarthralgia in Africa and Asia, the disease unexpectedly spread in the past decade with large outbreaks in Africa and around the Indian Ocean and ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Simon F,Javelle E,Oliver M,Leparc-Goffart I,Marimoutou C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infections due to community-associated methicillin---resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) are becoming more prevalent. CA-MRSA infections have unique epidemiologic features and virulence factors. Compared with health care-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA), most CA-MRSA is clonal type USA300 or 400 and has the Staphylococ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Paez A,Skiest D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The purpose of this review is to discuss the unique pathways of biofilm formation utilized by respiratory pathogens and current and future therapeutic strategies to inhibit biofilm formation or eradicate established biofilm in the context of these pathogens. Both nonselective and selective strategies ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hamilos DL

更新日期：2019-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary heart disease (CHD) is an inflammatory process that takes decades to develop. In HIV-seronegative persons, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein is a biologic marker of CHD risk. HIV infection induces chronic inflammation, despite adequate suppression of HIV replication with antiretroviral therapy, resulting in...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Fichtenbaum CJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute otitis media (AOM), when associated with a bulging or full tympanic membrane, has a bacterial etiology in more than 90% of cases. Not infrequently, the organisms present express resistance mechanisms to commonly prescribed antibiotic therapy. Tympanocentesis is a procedure advocated by several national guideline...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Pichichero ME,Wright T

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization against the most common meningeal pathogens is the leading factor associated with decreased incidence of bacterial meningitis in countries where routine vaccination is available. This is most dramatically illustrated by the reduction in the incidence of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis. The incide...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Dery MA,Hasbun R

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intensive care unit (ICU) patients present several unusual pharmacokinetic (PK) characteristics compared with less seriously ill patients, including increased distribution volume and variable clearance. Interpatient PK variability is often considerable and can produce a wide range of values for PK parameters and major...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Dufour G,Montravers P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization with Staphylococcus aureus is a risk factor for invasive S. aureus infections. Intranasal mupirocin has effectively eradicated S. aureus colonization and appears to prevent S. aureus nosocomial infections in some patient populations. In hospitals and communities where mupirocin use has been widespread, re...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Polgreen PM,Herwaldt LA

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although waterborne pathogens are relatively uncommon causes of cutaneous infections, these agents are being recognized with increasing frequency. Humans are exposed to water through a variety of recreational and occupational activities. Poor sanitary conditions in developing nations place the human populations at con...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Elko L,Rosenbach K,Sinnott J

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the cause of a considerable burden of morbidity and mortality among HIV-infected patients. The purpose of this study was to review recent literature for epidemiological trends and management of CAP in HIV patients. RECENT FINDINGS:While the specific infectious et...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Almeida A,Boattini M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive fungal infection (IFI) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with hematologic malignancy, prolonged neutropenia, or after hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Antifungal prophylaxis prevents IFI in high-risk hematology patients. This article discusses recent developments in antifungal pr...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Wolf J,Slavin MA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are now recognized as the etiologic agents of invasive cervical cancer, a major cancer in women. A single HPV type (type 16) is responsible for about 50% of the cancers. The major capsid protein of papillomaviruses, L1, when expressed by recombinant DNA technology, has the intri...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Gravitt PE,Shah KV

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most high-income countries, fewer children now acquire meningitis, and many of those who do will survive. Globally, however, meningitis still remains a significant cause of child morbidity and mortality. In this article, the authors review recent evidence on the morbidity faced by childhood survivors of bacterial m...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hudson LD,Viner RM,Christie D

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Patients with COPD are at increased risk for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). COPD has been reported as a comorbidity in at least one third of the hospitalized patients with CAP. There is a controversy that the pre...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Cilli A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are ubiquitous in the environment and cause a wide range of diseases in humans. Pulmonary involvement, the most common disease manifestation of NTM infection, is being increasingly encountered in clinical settings. In addition, specific phenotypic and genetic characteristics of person...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Saleeb P,Olivier KN

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States each year, influenza accounts for an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 deaths, nearly 300,000 hospitalizations, and millions of days lost from work. In the past few years, there has been an explosion of information in the medical literature related to influenza. This paper reviews these latest developmen...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Neuzil KM

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All of the endemic mycoses have cutaneous and mucocutaneous manifestations that are most commonly seen when patients have disseminated infection. Biopsy of skin lesions is simple and safe and can assist in making a timely diagnosis of disseminated infection. Primary cutaneous inoculation infection has been reported wi...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Smith JA,Riddell J 4th,Kauffman CA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) due to mycobacteria is a rare but frequently fatal complication that may occur early after the surgical procedure, or even years later. Infection has been described with both mechanical and biologic valvular prosthesis. The most commonly implicated mycobacterial species belong to th...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Bush LM,Paturi A,Chaparro-Rojas F,Perez MT

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most cases of rhinosinusitis are benign, the disruption of quality of life due to disease symptoms leads patients to seek early medical care. Ongoing debates dispute the definition, bacteriology, and medical management of chronic sinusitis, while the criteria for acute sinusitis are relatively well establishe...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hadley JA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Before the advent of antiretroviral therapy (ART), CMV retinitis was a common, debilitating opportunistic infection in the HIV-infected population. ART has had such a favorable impact on the prevention and management of CMV retinitis that it can be considered in some ways to be CMV therapy. Currently available CMV dir...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Barrett L,Walmsley S

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavily pretreated HIV-infected patients with multidrug-resistant virus remain a clinical challenge to the treating physician. While the goal of therapy in such patients is still controversial, sustained immunologic and clinical benefit have only been demonstrated with complete suppression of plasma viral load below d...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Montaner JS,Harris M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The global emergence of antifungal resistance among Candida spp. and Aspergillus spp. is a growing threat to public health, driven largely by the expanding use of antifungals in both the clinical and agricultural settings. As treatment options remain limited, understanding mechanisms and risk factors ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hendrickson JA,Hu C,Aitken SL,Beyda N

更新日期：2019-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida species remain the most frequently isolated fungi in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. Delayed antifungal therapy in these patients is a recognized risk factor for mortality. However, the diagnosis of invasive candidiasis remains difficult and is frequently delayed. Clinica...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Allou N,Allyn J,Montravers P

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antipsychotics are generally distinguished as atypical and typical agents, which are indicated in the treatment of acute and chronic psychoses and other psychiatric disorders. In April 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about the increased risk of all-cause mortality associated with atypical an...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Trifirò G

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many data associate low protease inhibitor plasma concentrations with suboptimal virologic responses, whereas relatively few data associate high plasma concentrations with increased likelihood of toxicity. Knowledge of relationships between concentrations and virologic response is important because significant variabi...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Anderson PL,Fletcher CV

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is still associated with a large burden and causes significant morbidity and mortality. Besides universal vaccination and antibiotic treatment, statins as adjunctive therapy may also have a beneficial role in the prevention and treatment of CAP. Our goal from thi...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Batais MA,Khan AR,Bin Abdulhak AA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the causal link between specific types of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer firmly established, efforts have turned to assessing the relative merits of offering HPV testing in screening, triage, and posttreatment management. Many unanswered questions remain, but a growing body of evidence supports a ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Kulasingam SL,Koutsky LA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00