Viral Hepatitis: Etiology, Epidemiology, Transmission, Diagnostics, Treatment, and Prevention.

abstract：:Successful antimicrobial stewardship programs rely on engagement with hospital administrators. Antimicrobial stewards should understand the unique pressures and demands of hospital and health system administration and be familiar with key terminology and regulatory requirements. This article provides guidance on strat...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Buckel WR,Kaye KS,Patel PK

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumonia remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the immunocompromised host. The type and timing of immunosuppression will predispose the patient to infections with certain pathogens. This article discusses the types of immunosuppression and their infectious and noninfectious implications. Key points of t...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Collin BA,Ramphal R

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A wide range of soft-tissue infections can occur in diabetic patients, the consequences of which can be devastating. Early recognition and intervention, which may involve both surgical and medical approaches, can improve clinical outcomes. ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Sentochnik DE

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock remains a challenge as we approach the next millennium. Although more attention is being given to guidelines and care pathways for sepsis, these are unfortunately based primarily on consensus opinion. Additional research into supportive interventions in this potentially ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Dellinger RP

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Global eradication of smallpox, elimination of poliomyelitis in the Western Hemisphere, and a 90% decrease in Haemophilus influenzae meningitis in the Western Hemisphere mark some of the achievements of immunization programs around the world. Yet many serious problems continue to exist, particularly in the developing ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Grossman M

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, imaging of renal infections was largely through a multimodality approach. Excretory urography, ultrasonography, nuclear scintigraphy, and CT all played major roles; however, in recent years, CT has increased in prominence in the imaging and evaluation of renal infection. Part of the reason for this tren...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Kaplan DM,Rosenfield AT,Smith RC

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infectious complications remain a major source of morbidity and mortality for patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis. The majority of these complications are related to dialysis access devices, and as such represent a potentially modifiable risk factor. This article reviews the important infectious complica...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Bagdasarian N,Heung M,Malani PN

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mold infections carry a substantial clinical and economic burden in solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients with a high overall mortality of near 30%. The most important pathogens include Aspergillus, the Zygomycetes, Fusarium, Scedosporium/Pseudallescheria, and the dematiaceous (dark) molds. Risk factors for the infe...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Lemonovich TL

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccine recommendations continue to evolve as a result of new vaccines, safety considerations, changing disease incidence (e.g., polio), and public health priorities. The pace of discovery is accelerating and advisory committees will need to respond accordingly. Each vaccine, new or old, will be required to earn its p...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Gardner P,Peter G

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of characteristic clinical, serologic, and immunologic responses to primary HIV infection has contributed greatly to our understanding of the natural history of HIV infection. Subjects usually present with a mononucleosis-like illness and during the period of primary infection there is a characteris...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Tindall B,Cooper DA,Donovan B,Penny R

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune dysregulation and immunosuppression regimens impact on the ability of transplant recipients to respond to immunizations. The distinct challenges of immunizations to benefit stem cell transplant recipients and solid organ transplant recipients are discussed separately. Recommended vaccines for stem cell transpla...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Molrine DC,Hibberd PL

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Throughout history, infectious diarrhea has been associated with crowding, poor sanitation, and war. Although descriptions of infectious diarrhea exist in the earliest records of civilization, effective measures for prevention were not widely or consistently used until the modern era of active public health promotion....

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Lim ML,Wallace MR

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic arthritis still continues to be a common and serious problem at major urban medical centers and is one of the most rapidly destructive forms of acute arthritis. The yearly incidence of bacterial arthritis varies from 2 to 10 per 100,000 in the general population to 30 to 70 per 100,000 in patients with rheumato...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： García-De La Torre I

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Latin America, acute gastroenteritis remains to be an important cause of morbidity in adults and a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children. A child under 5 years of age belonging to a low income segment of the Latin American population will develop 5 to 10 bouts of diarrhea every year. The bacterial and ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Prado V,O'Ryan ML

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many functional, demographic, and immunologic changes associated with aging are responsible for increasing the incidence and severity of infectious diseases in the elderly. Management is complicated by age-related organ system changes. Because many of the elderly are on multiple medications for underlying illnesses, a...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Htwe TH,Mushtaq A,Robinson SB,Rosher RB,Khardori N

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of meningococcal disease is at an historic low in the United States, but prevention remains a priority because of the devastating outcomes and risk for outbreaks. Available vaccines are recommended routinely for persons at increased risk for disease to protect against all major serogroups of Neisseria me...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Cohn A,MacNeil J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection is a well-described complication of cirrhosis and is a major cause of death in this population. This article examines the types of infections related with cirrhosis, such as bacteremia, urinary tract infections, meningitis, and others. ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Johnson DH,Cunha BA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of antimicrobial resistance among several common bacterial pathogens requires that clinical microbiology laboratories have the ability to promptly and accurately recognize resistance in patients' isolates. Laboratories have several options for performing routine susceptibility testing, including the brot...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Jorgensen JH

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In older adults, pathophysiologic, clinical, and environmental factors all affect the presentation of infections. We explore how age-related changes influence the manifestation and evaluation of infections in this population. Specific topics include immunosenescence, age-related organ-specific physiologic changes, and...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： El Chakhtoura NG,Bonomo RA,Jump RLP

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article presents a discussion of the management of vascular prosthetic infections. The emphasis is on aortic graft infections, but other peripheral graft infections are also discussed. ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Golan JF

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are responsible for significant morbidity, mortality, and excess health care costs. It is increasingly evident that many CRBSI can be prevented with current knowledge and techniques. Preventive measures can be broadly grouped into clinical practice-based interventions an...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Rupp ME,Majorant D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Critical-care units can be barometers for appropriate antimicrobial use. There, life and death hang on empirical antimicrobial therapy for treatment of infectious diseases. With increasing therapeutic empiricism, triple-drug, broad-spectrum regimens are often necessary, but cannot be continued without fear of the doub...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Owens RC Jr

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial stewardship programs aim to monitor, improve, and measure responsible antibiotic use. The intensive care unit (ICU), with its critically ill patients and prevalence of multiple drug-resistant pathogens, presents unique challenges. This article reviews approaches to stewardship with application to the ICU...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Doernberg SB,Chambers HF

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the ICU, fever can be expected to accompany an extensive number of conditions of both infectious and noninfectious etiologies. It is crucial to identify the precise cause of fever, because certain conditions in either category may be life-threatening, whereas others require no treatment at all. It is important to r...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Cunha BA,Shea KW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amebiasis is a widespread parasitic disease caused by Entamoeba histolytica. This protozoan organism is the third leading parasitic cause of death in the developing world and is an important health risk to travelers in endemic areas. Amebiasis most commonly results in asymptomatic colonization of the gastrointestinal ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Hughes MA,Petri WA Jr

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although only few cases of diphtheria are reported annually in the United States, substantial numbers of adults have declining levels of protective serum antitoxin. A recent outbreak of diphtheria in Sweden emphasizes the importance of reimmunizing adults in diphtheria toxoid, included as part of routine use of tetanu...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Edwards KM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Living safely after organ transplantation starts before transplant and continues after transplant. To minimize a solid organ transplant (SOT) recipient's risk for infection and risk for injury, it is important to plan for numerous potential exposures after transplant. These include potential exposure to others with vi...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Blair BM

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:KS is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among AIDS patients and a treatment problem in the sporadic cases that are not associated with HIV. All four forms of the disease are linked to a newly described herpesvirus, HHV-8 or KSHV, via strong epidemiologic associations and biologic plausibility as a causal agent....

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Greenblatt RM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AIDS is characteristically associated with several intracellular enteric protozoan infections that often cause chronic and sometimes fatal intractable large-volume diarrhea. Until the AIDS epidemic, several of these parasitic infections were almost unknown as causes of human disease. This article reviews the diseases ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Wittner M,Tanowitz HB,Weiss LM

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the past several years, the decision to employ outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT) is driven by adequacy of insurance, availability of appropriate resources within the community, and the clinical stability of the patient. Current dogma is that virtually any diagnosed disease can be treated outside t...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Brown RB

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00