The role of the clinical microbiology laboratory in the management of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea.

abstract：:Vancomycin and daptomycin are options for the initial treatment of patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia. Treatment options for persistent MRSA bacteremia or bacteremia due to vancomycin-intermediate or vancomycin-resistant strains include daptomycin, ceftaroline, and combination ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Holubar M,Meng L,Alegria W,Deresinski S

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary or extrapulmonary tuberculosis occurs in 5 to 35 per cent of AIDS patients, frequently precedes the diagnosis of AIDS, and is increasing in incidence. Clinically, AIDS-associated tuberculosis is similar in presentation to progressive, primary tuberculosis and can be treated effectively with standard antitube...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Jacobson MA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population growth in the twentieth century is at its highest level in history, with the world's population now doubling in approximately 40 years. An unprecedented 90 million people are being added worldwide each year, with most of the growth taking place in the developing world. The implications of this rate of growt...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Rosenfield A

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial resistance is a common iatrogenic complication of both modern life and medical care. Certain multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant Gram-negative organisms pose the biggest challenges to health care today, predominantly owing to a lack of therapeutic options. Containing the spread of these or...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Adler A,Friedman ND,Marchaim D

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) syndrome is a potentially life-threatening infection typified by a combination of a capillary leak syndrome and bleeding diathesis. Most but not all agents causing VHF are arboviruses, with transmission to humans resulting from an arthropod bite. Agents of VHF affect humans on all con...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Meltzer E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent decades have witnessed the emergence and spread of parasites resistant to standard drug therapies, particularly malaria. Chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum has now spread to most malarial areas, and resistance to other antimalarial drugs, including mefloquine and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, have become ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Barat LM,Bloland PB

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central nervous system and systemic complications of bacterial meningitis cause significant morbidity and mortality. This article offers insight into the clinical features, pathogenesis, and management of these complications. In many instances, the improved outcome of intervention is based on clinical suspicion an...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Rauf SJ,Roberts NJ Jr

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article addresses current issues regarding serologic testing for selected STDs, particularly those for which serologic testing has been useful for diagnosis, monitoring therapy, or seroepidemiology. For each selected pathogen, the authors discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the serologic tests as diagnostic a...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Thomas DL,Quinn TC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It appears incontestable that there is a link between genital ulcer disease and HIV infection. On the one hand the natural history and response to therapy of syphilis, HSV-2, and chancroid are all modified by the immunosuppressive effects of HIV infection. On the other hand, HIV transmission is probably facilitated by...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Augenbraun MH,McCormack WM

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：:Changes that occur in the pharmacology of drugs in the elderly must be considered in the use of antimicrobial agents. Although absorption of orally administered drugs is not affected in a significant way, renal function decreases, drug-drug interactions increase, compliance with regimens may be decreased, and drug tox...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Stalam M,Kaye D

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral lesions are easily visualized and often are signs of systemic diseases. Clinical diagnosis of viral and fungal infections can sometimes be confusing because many lesions will have similar clinical presentations. This article reviews the more common viral- and fungal-associated lesions found in the oral cavity in ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Glick M,Siegel MA

更新日期：1999-12-01 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：: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：:The returning traveler with fever presents a diagnostic challenge for the health care provider. When evaluating such a patient, the highest priority should be given to diseases that are potentially fatal or may represent public health threats. A good history is paramount and needs to include destination, time and dura...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Speil C,Mushtaq A,Adamski A,Khardori N

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the close of the 19th century, the germ theory had generated a new understanding of the causes of acute infectious diseases and revealed new directions for study. This understanding contributed to the greatest improvements in health in the history of medicine. At the end of the 20th century, the second stage of thi...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Ewald PW

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：:HIV and tropical infections affect each other mutually. HIV infection may alter the natural history of tropical infectious diseases, impede rapid diagnosis, or reduce the efficacy of antiparasitic treatment. Tropical infections may facilitate the transmission of HIV and accelerate progression from asymptomatic HIV inf...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Harms G,Feldmeier H

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：: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：: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：:In this article, gynecologic conditions of increased importance in the HIV-infected woman are discussed. Women living with HIV may have an increase in menstrual disorders, lower genital tract neoplasias, gynecologic surgery, and sexually transmitted infections. The literature relevant to choosing a method of contracep...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Cejtin HE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the lethal end stage of a sexually transmitted disease caused by a virus that is producing the major epidemic of our century. In this article we describe the history and epidemiology of AIDS and the disease states associated with infection with the human immunodeficiency vi...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Wood RW,Collier A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on the use of immunoglobulin variable regions, including Id, anti-Id, anticlonotypes, and Id engineering as putative vaccines and vaccine strategies for infectious diseases; and specific discussion of Id systems involving antigenic determinants associated with potentially pathogenic organisms. ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Hefty PS,Kennedy RC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid rate of increase in reported cases of Lyme disease exceeds that of any zoonotic disease, and the annual occurrence of cases is greater than the sum of all other tick-borne illnesses in the United States. This, in addition to the geographic spread of cases to most of the United States, has greatly heightened ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Buchstein SR,Gardner P

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have proposed a model in which the initiation of human parturition in the presence of infection is controlled by the host. Systemic maternal infections such as pyelonephritis or localized infections such as deciduitis can trigger parturition by the activation of the monocyte and macrophage system in peripheral bloo...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Gomez R,Romero R,Edwin SS,David C

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：: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：:A small number of bacterial agents, including enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), Shigella and Vibrio cholerae 01 and one virus, rotavirus, combine to cause a major proportion of the diarrheal illness of public health importance worldwide. Salmonella typhi is by far the major caus...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Levine MM,Edelman R

更新日期：1990-03-01 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