Conservative Treatment of Acute Colonic Diverticulitis.

abstract：:Community-acquired pneumonia is a common reason for hospitalization and leads to significant morbidity and mortality. There are published evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of community-acquired pneumonia. Many countries, including the US, have developed national, publically reporte...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Richey EA,Dudley L,Liu SK

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Acinetobacter baumannii (AB) is an infamous nosocomial pathogen with a seemingly limitless capacity for antimicrobial resistance, leading to few treatment options and poor clinical outcomes. The debatably low pathogenicity and virulence of AB are juxtaposed by its exceptionally high rate of infection-...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Butler DA,Biagi M,Tan X,Qasmieh S,Bulman ZP,Wenzler E

更新日期：2019-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem globally. The appearance and spread of bacteria that are resistant to most or all commonly available antibiotics has raised the specter of untreatable bacterial infections. The New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1) has received wide attention because of the extreme re...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Wilson ME,Chen LH

更新日期：2012-06-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is a well-described phenomenon in HIV-infected patients following initiation of antiretroviral therapy and can lead to significant morbidity and mortality in some patients. Risk for IRIS is enhanced in those with low CD4 counts and preexisting opportunistic infect...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Armstrong WS

更新日期：2013-02-01 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 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：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：:Myocarditis is an acquired form inflammatory heart muscle disease, manifested as acute and chronic conditions. While many etiologies have been reported, the most common cause of this disease is infection, primarily viral. Typically, the specific causative agent(s) and mechanism(s) are elusive. Over the past several ye...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Bowles NE,Towbin JA

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：:In recent years, substantial advances have been achieved in the treatment of mucormycosis. It is now clear that early initiation of therapy results in substantially better outcomes, underscoring the need to maintain a high index of suspicion and aggressively biopsy potential lesions. Increasing data support the need f...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Spellberg B,Ibrahim AS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outcome for HIV-infected patients with cancer has dramatically improved in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) era, probably due to improvements in immune status and bone marrow function that allow the possibility of increased drug-dose intensity with a higher complete remission rate. Although data re...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Rosso R,Di Biagio A,Viscoli C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Modern advances in malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) technology have increased demand for low-cost, easy-to-use assays in areas endemic for malaria. Substantial developments in diagnostic sensitivity and specificity, improvements in non-falciparum RDTs, and novel biotechnological innovations are gra...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Mukkala AN,Kwan J,Lau R,Harris D,Kain D,Boggild AK

更新日期：2018-10-23 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：: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：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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system most often characterized by clinical relapses and periods of remission. RECENT FINDINGS:The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in disease-modifying therapies for MS. Fourteen FDA-approved immunomodulato...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Levin SN,Kaplan TB

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis still represents an unmet medical need. Presently, the US Food and Drug Administration has not approved any drugs for the treatment of this common condition. Various inflammatory processes are involved in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis. Treatment of infection and surgica...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Hatipo U,Rubinstein I

更新日期：2007-05-01 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: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：: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：: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：: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：:A broad range of disorders can cause inflammation of the thyroid gland. True thyroid infections are rare and can result from a variety of microorganisms, of which bacteria are the most common. Other rarer pathogens include fungi, parasites, and viruses. Gram-positive bacteria, especially staphylococci, predominate as ...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Shah SS,Baum SG

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), an infection of the lower respiratory tract which occurs in association with mechanical ventilation, is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infection in the intensive care unit (ICU). VAP causes significant morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients including incr...

journal_title：Current infectious disease reports

authors： Waters B,Muscedere J

更新日期：2015-08-01 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