Assays for antibodies to varicella-zoster virus.

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：:HIV-positive patients are now undergoing solid organ transplantation at increasing rates, with successful outcomes. Transplantation in this unique patient population presents new challenges in the postoperative management of both antiretroviral regimens and immunosuppressive regimens. This review highlights the drug-d...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Primeggia J,Timpone JG Jr,Kumar PN

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tyrosine kinase inhibitors represent the standard of care for several diseases and drug targets in hematologic malignancies. Infectious complications vary by disease status and prior therapy, but overall incidence of infections generally is low. In chronic diseases, such as chronic myeloid leukemia and chronic lymphoc...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Kin A,Schiffer CA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with hematologic malignancy or those who undergo hematopoietic stem cell transplantation experience variable degrees of immunosuppression, dependent on underlying disease, therapy received, time since transplant, and complications, such as graft-versus-host disease. Vaccination is an important strategy to mit...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Kamboj M,Shah MK

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although a small number of infections in total joint replacements are blood borne from distant sources, most infections appear to have been derived at operation. Strenuous attempts to reduce this risk by cleaning the air in the wound environment, coupled with prophylactic antibiotics, have reduced infection rates by a...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Gillespie WJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV testing and incidence are stable, but trends for certain populations are concerning. Primary prevention must be reinvigorated and target vulnerable populations. Science and policy have progressed to improve the accuracy, speed, privacy, and affordability of HIV testing. More potent and much better tolerated HIV tr...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Rodriguez CV,Horberg MA

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza is a zoonotic respiratory virus that affects birds, mammals, and humans. Influenza viruses are unique in their genetic instability, which frequently results in antigenic drift or shift. Antigenic shifts are responsible for influenza epidemics. Influenza A pandemics have been responsible for millions of death...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Cunha BA

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：:The diagnostic approach to the compromised host with CNS infection depends on an analysis of the patient's clinical manifestations of CNS disease, the acuteness or subacuteness of the clinical presentation, and an analysis of the type of immune defect compromising the patient's host defenses. Most patients with CNS in...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Cunha BA

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：: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：:Genome-wide association studies have identified polymorphisms located near the gene encoding IL28B, which turned out to be the best predictor of response to pegylated interferon plus ribavirin for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 infection. This association was extended to spontaneous clearance of HCV, sugge...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Berger CT,Kim AY

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：:Preventing traveler's diarrhea is usually a matter of common sense, good luck, and the host's ability to defend against enteric pathogens, particularly enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli. Untreated tap water, ice cubes, unpasteurized milk products, salads, food from street vendors, and dining in unhygienic-appearing res...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Tellier R,Keystone JS

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of a host to sense invasion by a pathogenic organism, and to respond appropriately to control infection, is paramount to survival. To that end, an array of receptors and binding proteins has evolved as part of the innate immune system to detect Gram-negative bacteria. This article reviews the role of CD14,...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Ingalls RR,Heine H,Lien E,Yoshimura A,Golenbock D

更新日期：1999-06-01 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：:Bioterrorism preparedness is clearly a goal for the health care community, working in concert with city, county, state, and federal public health and emergency authorities and in collaboration with law enforcement at the local and federal levels. Opening the channels of communication between all groups involved, obtai...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Miller JM

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：:Although infective endocarditis is certainly not the most common infection seen in injecting drug users, it is the infection that clinicians most commonly think of when they consider infectious complications of injected drug use. The microbiology of infective endocarditis in injection drug users has remained relativel...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Brown PD,Levine DP

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Use of the most rapid and reliable laboratory tests for mycobacterial detection, identification, and susceptibility testing is important for TB control. In 1993, CDC experts made recommendations regarding optimal methods of mycobacterial testing (i.e., stains for AFB, culture, identification, and susceptibility testin...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Woods GL

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various nontuberculous mycobacteria can cause infection of skin and soft tissues. These organisms are also known as atypical mycobacteria, anonymous mycobacteria, and mycobacteria other than tuberculosis. These organisms are much more common causes of cutaneous infection than Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infections cau...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Dalovisio JR,Pankey GA

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:Antigens located in the midgut of the tick are hidden from the host's immune system. Egg production of ticks can be reduced when ticks are fed on animals vaccinated with midgut antigens of the tick, and a subunit vaccine formulated with the recombinant antigen Bm86 is now available that can reduce the number of ticks ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Lee R,Opdebeeck JP

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water serves as a major reservoir for the environmental mycobacteria. Many cases of cutaneous mycobacterial disease result from water exposure. The current theory of the pathogenesis of M. avium complex lung disease involves inhalation of organisms aerosolized from surface water. Disseminated M. avium disease in AIDS ...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Wallace RJ Jr

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, especially in women. Low-dose daily or postcoital antimicrobial prophylaxis is effective for prevention of recurrent UTIs and women can self-diagnose and self-treat a new UTI with antibiotics. The increasing resistance rates of Escherichia coli to antimicrobial age...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Geerlings SE,Beerepoot MA,Prins JM

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the heart of imminent healthcare reform are the future physicians of this decade. Medical educators will want to stimulate a desire within students to practice humanitarian, cost-effective, community-oriented primary care. Further studies to examine the effects of medical student experiences in international electi...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Chiller TM,De Mieri P,Cohen I

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most frequent and best-studied agent of urinary tract infection (UTI) is Escherichia coli, which serves as a useful model pathogen for understanding microbial virulence in relation to UTI pathogenesis. The E. coli strains that cause most UTIs and other extraintestinal E. coli infections represent a highly speciali...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Johnson JR

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Septic shock is a common life-threatening problem, usually presenting with fever, tachycardia, tachypnea, and often a source of infection. The cardiac index is increased, with a decreased systemic vascular resistance, and a reversibly decreased ejection fraction with an increased end diastolic volume. The myocardial d...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Toney JF,Parker MM

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models have proven to be invaluable in bridging the gap between in vitro susceptibility testing of an antibiotic and anticipating results obtained in clinical studies. Variables such as antibiotic concentration, inoculum of organism, and pharmacokinetic parameters of the drug can be carefully controlled to prov...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Tunkel AR,Scheld WM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen in the hospital and in the community, and it is increasingly resistant to multiple antibiotics. A nonantimicrobial approach to controlling S aureus is needed. The most extensively tested vaccine against S aureus, which is a capsular polysaccharide-based vaccine known as S...

journal_title：Infectious disease clinics of North America

authors： Schaffer AC,Lee JC

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00