The Role of Fluoroquinolones in the Treatment of Skin and Soft Tissue Infection.

abstract：:Streptococcus bovis is a rare, but important cause of bacterial meningitis in children. Since its discovery in the early 1970s, the pathogen has undergone multiple taxonomic changes producing four distinct subspecies today, the most prevalent of which is S. gallolyticus subsp pasteurianus in infants and children. Whil...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hede SV

更新日期：2016-03-01 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：:Rates of syphilis continue to increase in the United States and HIV-infected patients make up a large proportion of cases. The interaction between syphilis and HIV is complex and still incompletely understood. Although diagnosis and management of HIV-infected patients with syphilis is, in general, similar to HIV-uninf...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Ghanem KG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combination antifungal therapy has been an area of great research and clinical interest since antifungals became available decades ago, in part driven by the severe morbidity and mortality associated with invasive fungal infections. Because of the availability of newer antifungal agents including echinocandins and exp...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Baddley JW,Pappas PG

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review aims to determine the effectiveness of the use of syndrome diagnosis in the evaluation of vaginitis and to make suggestions based on the review findings. RECENT FINDINGS:Vaginal discharge as the main symptom of vaginitis is unspecific. A randomized study of symptom-based diagnosis and tre...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Nwankwo TO,Aniebue UU,Umeh UA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reduction of microbial contamination of the hospital environment is a challenge, yet has potential impacts on infection prevention efforts. Fumigation and UV light devices for environmental cleaning have expanded into the health care setting with the goal of decontamination of difficult to clean or overlooked surfaces...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Doll M,Morgan DJ,Anderson D,Bearman G

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is one of the most common health problems among travelers. Although enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is implicated most commonly, enteroaggregative E. coli has recently been described as a major pathogen. Shigella, Campylobacter, and Salmonella organisms are less common causes of acute diarrhea, and intestina...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Cheng AC,Thielman NM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Healthcare-associated bacterial meningitis may occur after neurosurgical procedures, head trauma, and following placement of external or internal ventricular catheters. The likely microorganisms that cause meningitis in this setting (ie, staphylococci and gram-negative bacilli) are different from those that cause meni...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Laxmi S,Tunkel AR

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral triazole therapy is well established for the treatment of invasive aspergillosis (IPA), allergic aspergillosis (ABPA), and chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA), and is often long-term. Resistance to triazole azole antifungal drugs in Aspergillus fumigatus is now a major clinical problem in a number of European l...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Bowyer P,Moore CB,Rautemaa R,Denning DW,Richardson MD

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclosporiasis is a food- and water-borne infection that affects healthy and immunocompromised individuals. Awareness of the disease has increased, and outbreaks continue to be reported among vulnerable hosts and now among local residents in endemic areas. Advances in molecular techniques have improved identification ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Warren CA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deadly combination of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) currently ravaging the world, taking a toll of about 0.35 million people every year, is one of the major public health crises of the decade. Throughout the course of HIV infection, the risk of acquisition, reactivation, and reinfection ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Varghese GM,Janardhanan J,Ralph R,Abraham OC

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:Neurocysticercosis, caused by infection with the pork tapeworm Taenia solium, is increasingly recognized as a cause of neurologic disease worldwide. Because the clinical presentation is nonspecific, diagnosis has been difficult. Advances in imaging studies and serodiagnostic techniques are facilitating the diagnosis o...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Yancey LS,Diaz-Marchan PJ,White AC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatologic manifestations of travel-related illness are particularly vexing due to the broad differential diagnosis and clinicians' unfamiliarity with uncommonly seen diseases. This paper aims to educate and update the reader on selected infectious diseases in the returned traveler whose disease manifestations are p...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Zimmerman RF,Belanger ES,Pfeiffer CD

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical toxinology is a specialized area of clinical medicine focused on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases caused by animal, plant, and fungal toxins. This review focuses on recent developments in snakebite. Snakebite is newly recognized as a Neglected Tropical Disease by the World...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： White J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose of Review:In December 2019, outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infected pneumonia patients were discovered in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China. With the spread of the epidemic, new cases have been found in other regions of China and abroad. This review summarizes the curr...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Wang Y,Wang L,Li X,Gong Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious myositis is defined as an infection of a skeletal muscle. Infectious myositis is most commonly caused by bacteria; however, a variety of viral, parasitic, and fungal agents may also cause myositis. The pathogenesis of nonbacterial infectious myositis is via direct or hematogenous infection of the musculatur...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Crum-Cianflone NF

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drotrecogin alfa (activated) (DrotAA) has been approved for therapy of severe sepsis and septic shock for 7 years, but controversy persists regarding efficacy and safety. Only a single randomized, controlled trial (Recombinant Human Activated Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis; PROWESS) has shown evidence...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Barie PS

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatic failure due to hepatitis C is the leading indicator for orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) in the United States. Unfortunately, recurrent hepatitis C virus infection is essentially universal following orthotopic liver transplantation. Although significant advances have been made in the past decade for the ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： A Bobak D,Yadavalli G

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:The increase in drug-resistant community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is an important problem all over the world. This article explores the current state of antimicrobial resistance of different bacteria that cause CAP and also assesses risk factors to identify those pathogens. RECENT FINDINGS:In the las...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Arancibia F,Ruiz M

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary infection of humans with varicella zoster virus (VZV) causes varicella (chickenpox), after which the virus becomes latent in cranial nerve ganglia, dorsal root ganglia and autonomic ganglia along the entire neuraxis. As VZV-specific cell-mediated immunity declines in elderly and immunocompromised individuals, ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Nagel MA,Gilden D

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections have been reported with increasing frequency from many parts of the world. Most infections involve the skin and soft tissue structures, and CA-MRSA is now the most commonly identifiable cause of purulent skin and soft tissue infectio...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Abrahamian FM,Snyder EW

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) or Kaposi's sarcoma (KS)-associated herpesvirus is a recently identified virus that is associated with KS, multicentric Castleman's disease, and body cavity-based lymphomas. KS is the most common kind of cancer in AIDS patients and the initial AIDS-defining condition in over 20% of patients...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Greenblatt RM

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) have coincided with recent increases in sexual risk behaviors across the United States and Europe. The identification of same-sex sexual risk behavior in men and the subsequent risk for certain bacterial and viral infections requir...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Klausner JD,Wong W

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review highlights current knowledge in travel-related neuroinfectious diseases, providing insight on approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infections of the central nervous system (CNS) in travelers and immigrants. RECENT FINDINGS:Updates on travel vaccine recommendations includi...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Thompson H,Thakur K

更新日期：2017-10-03 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review attempts to understand the reasons for the successes and failures of the two novel strategies that have slowly begun to emerge as potential counters for anti-malarial drug resistance-"Triple Combination Therapy" and "Drug Cycling." RECENT FINDINGS:Recent reports have suggested that increa...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Dipanjan B,Shivaprakash G,Balaji O

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cervical lymphadenopathy is a common problem in children. The condition most commonly represents a transient response to a benign local or generalized infection. Acute bilateral cervical lymphadenitis is usually caused by a viral upper respiratory tract infection or streptococcal pharyngitis. Acute unilateral cervical...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Leung AK,Davies HD

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of vulvovaginal candidiasis, which is caused by Candida albicans, is poorly understood. Despite a strong protective role for cell-mediated immunity (CMI) against other mucosal candidal infections, numerous studies in humans and most animal models have revealed little to no role for CMI or other forms ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Fidel PL

更新日期：2003-12-01 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