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Test-and-Treat Strategy for HIV in Resource-Limited Settings
The international HIV/AIDS healthcare community speaks.
Medscape HIV/AIDS
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The Latest Threat in the War on Antimicrobial Resistance: F1000: Ranked "Changes Clinical Practice"
The transfer of NDM-1 into a pandemic clone of E. coli is a frightening and entirely real possibility.
Faculty of 1000 Medicine
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Travel-Associated Dengue Surveillance -- United States, 2006-2008
This new study gives the latest data on dengue fever, and how it can best be diagnosed.
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
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Candida Glabrata Endophthalmitis Following Penetrating Keratoplasty in a Patient With Negative Donor rim Culture
Read this report to learn more about Candida glabrata endophthalmitis, and how this complication can arise after a keratoplasty.
BMC Ophthalmology
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Microalbuminuria Predicts Overt Proteinuria Among Patients With HIV Infection
What exactly is the connection between microalbuminuria and the subsequent development of proteinuria in HIV infected persons?
HIV Medicine
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HIV Treatment in US Prisons
Read this study to learn about treating HIV infected prisoners, and the special challenges that incarceration presents.
HIV Therapy
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Brief Intervention Helps People With Severe Mental Illness Access Services for Blood-Borne Infections
A simple intervention helps people with severe mental illness overcome the barriers to preventive services for blood-borne infections such as HIV and hepatitis B and C virus.
Medscape Medical News
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FDA Approves First Automated Molecular Test for Measuring HBV Viral Load
The FDA has approved for marketing the first fully automated HBV molecular assay to quantify viral load in plasma or serum.
Medscape Medical News
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Rapid Molecular Test Detects Tuberculosis and Rifampin Resistance
The rapid molecular MTB/RIF test offers sensitive detection of tuberculosis and rifampin resistance from untreated sputum in less than 2 hours.
Medscape Medical News
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Brand New Drug Might Help Fight Soldiers' Wound Infections
An antibiotic that gets its microbe-fighting power from insect proteins was effective at attacking a common infection that afflicts blast victims in war zones, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
Reuters Health Information
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China to Vaccinate 100 Million Children to Fight Measles
Nearly 100 million children in China will be vaccinated against measles this month to help eliminate the disease, a leading cause of avoidable death and disability in developing countries, the WHO said on Wednesday.
Reuters Health Information
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Tigecycline Linked to Increased Mortality Risk
The increased mortality risk is most evident in patients treated for hospital-acquired pneumonia, and particularly ventilator-associated pneumonia, which is an unapproved indication.
Medscape Medical News
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FDA: Filthy Conditions at Egg Recall Farms
The farms linked to the egg recall were infested with rodents, flies, maggots, pigeons, and salmonella.
WebMD Health News
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Risk for Acute Bacterial Meningitis in Children With Complex Febrile Seizure
How common is bacterial meningitis as a cause of first complex febrile seizure in otherwise healthy children?
Journal Watch
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Molecular Diagnostics of Human Papillomavirus
This review summarizes the molecular testing methods currently in use for the detection and genotyping of human papillomavirus (HPV). What's in store for the future?
Laboratory Medicine
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Mandate Flu Vaccination for Healthcare Workers, Say Infectious Disease Experts
Required vaccination at several healthcare organizations has boosted their workforce immunization rates past the 98% mark, according to a position paper from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Medscape Medical News
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Scientist Devises Faster Test for Detecting E. Coli
A Purdue University food scientist using infrared spectroscopy took only an hour to find harmful Escherichia coli bacteria in ground beef, a discovery that could cut days off investigations of outbreaks, the university said in a statement this week.
Reuters Health Information
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Monkeypox Rising in Wake of Smallpox Eradication
Some thirty years after authorities doled out the last dose of smallpox vaccine, the world faces another multiplying menace: monkeypox.
Reuters Health Information
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CDC No Longer Recommends Delaying Influenza Vaccination for Elderly
A CDC official says there is no evidence that elderly patients gain more protection against influenza by waiting until October or November to get immunized.
Medscape Medical News
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FDA Clears Catheter Guidance System With Real-Time Tracking
The FDA has granted 501(k) clearance for a guidance system used to place peripherally inserted central catheters.
Medscape Medical News
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