Urinary Tract Infection in Pregnant Women: Old Dogmas and Current Concepts Regarding Pathogenesis.

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：: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：:Determining the microbiologic etiology of enteric infection remains an elusive goal. Conventional approaches, including culture, microscopy, and antigen-based tests have significant limitations such as limit of detection and the need for multiple procedures. Molecular diagnostics, especially PCR based tests, are rapid...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Platts-Mills JA,Operario DJ,Houpt ER

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Antiretroviral therapy (ART) does not eliminate HIV-1 from latently infected reservoirs, and this remains the critical obstacle to the eradication of infection. Although ART is effective in suppressing viral load, life-long ART is burdensome in many respects. Given expanding numbers of HIV-infected individuals on ART ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Margolis DM

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：:Candida species are an important cause of health care-related bloodstream infections (BSI). Understanding the current Candida BSI incidence trends, the dominant species causing disease, and the mortality associated with this infection are important to help guide therapeutic and prophylaxis measures. In this review, tr...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Morgan J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urinary tract infection (UTI) is common in postmenopausal women; the estimated incidence ranges from 4% to 15%. The clinical presentation of UTI is somewhat different in postmenopausal older women than it is in younger women: postmenopausal women are less likely to report frequency, dysuria, hematuria, and fever, but ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Foxman B

更新日期：1999-10-01 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: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：: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：: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：: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：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：:Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) are a global burden to public health and are frequently caused by respiratory viruses. Advances in molecular diagnostic techniques have allowed the identification of previously undetected viral pathogens and have improved our understanding of respiratory virus infections. Her...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Ren L,Xiang Z,Guo L,Wang J

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a common cause of genitourinary sexually transmitted infections. N. gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that has evidence of tissue-specific host interactions and diverse extragenital manifestations of infection both in adult and pediatric populations. The clinical presentation of extrag...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Spencer SE,Bash MC

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endocarditis pathogens colonize valves with pre-existing sterile vegetations or valves with minimal endothelial lesions. Inflamed endothelia produce cytokines, integrins, and tissue factor, which in turn attract fibronectin, monocytes, and platelets. Bacteria attaching to such structures further activate the cascade, ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Widmer E,Que YA,Entenza JM,Moreillon P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with sepsis may require mechanical ventilation due to the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). It has become increasingly accepted that mechanical ventilation can contribute to lung injury in these patients. The modern concept of ventilator-induced lung injury is described in the context of alveolar ov...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hess DR,Thompson BT

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About 1% of all patients with end-stage renal disease in the United States are infected with HIV. With the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), HIV death rates have declined 80%, and chronic diseases resulting from HIV have replaced opportunistic infections as the leading cause of death among ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Locke JE,Segev DL

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Noroviruses are among the most common cause of diarrhea in transplant recipients. The clinical spectrum of norovirus infection after transplant is increasingly being recognized. As substantial morbidity is now associated with norovirus infections in this population; the quest for rapid diagnostic modalities and newer ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Angarone MP,Sheahan A,Kamboj M

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：: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：:Carbapenems are the broadest spectrum antimicrobials utilized in the treatment of serious infections since the 1980s. Soon after their introduction, the discovery of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) was reported in the 1990s. Invasive CRE infections are associated with high mortality and limited treatment...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Bowers DR,Huang V

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Skin lesions provide an important clue to the diagnoses of many infections in returned travelers. New information related to epidemiology, recognition, diagnosis, or management is described for the systemic infections--dengue fever, several of the rickettsial infections, African trypanosomiasis, and coccidioidomycosis...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Wilson ME,Chen LH

更新日期：2004-02-01 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：:Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common cause of vaginal discharge in women of childbearing age. In some individuals, it recurs frequently after treatment, frustrating both the patient and the physician. Standard BV treatment--metronidazole or clindamycin, administered either intravaginally or orally--is followed by rela...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hay P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an era of cost-consciousness in the delivery of medical care, the economics of healthcare delivery for HIV-infected persons has been an area of active interest. Interested parties include the payors of HIV care, particularly public insurers, who are paying for an increasing amount of the overall cost of HIV care in...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Moore RD

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00