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Drs. Clinton K. Murray and Duane R. Hospenthal convened a symposium on current strategies in the management of leptospirosis at the recent Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in Washington DC, December 11-15, 2005. Dr. Joseph Vinetz began the symposium with an overview of the epidemiology of leptospirosis.
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Do Antidepressants Increase Risk of Suicide?; Can Viagra Improve Heart
Function?; A Dramatic Increase of Clostridium difficile; FDA Actions
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The Biman Bangladesh flight from Dhaka to JFK airport that arrived on December 17th was carrying a 12-month-old child with infectious measles. This young child from Queens county had not been vaccinated against measles prior to departure. Recall that travel recommendations for infants who are 6-12 months of age and are traveling to a measles endemic region call for measles vaccination.
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The first article reports the results of an industry-sponsored clinical trial comparing TDF/ABC/3TC vs EFV/ABC/3TC in treatment-naïve patients. Three hundred forty patients were randomized. Baseline characteristics, including CD4 count and HIV RNA level were similar between the arms.
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Since the fda approval of moxifloxacin in December 1991 for the treatment of community-acquired pneumonia, sinusitis, acute bacterial exacerbation of chronic bronchitis, and uncomplicated skin/skin structure infections, its indications for use has been expanded to include the treatment of complicated skin/skin structure infections and complicated intra-abdominal infections.
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This study from a single diabetic foot clinic in France involved a retrospective chart review of patients who underwent surgical percutaneous bone biopsy with culture for microbiologic diagnosis of osteomyelitis. Patients included for study were those who had not received either local or systemic antibiotics for at least 4 weeks prior to cultures being obtained.
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In the autumn of 2001, construction workers in the Siaures Miestalis (Northern Town) section of Vilnius uncovered a mass grave containing several thousand neatly stacked skeletons, most in a fetal position.
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Beginning in 1995, a remarkably extensive blood culture protocol was established at Stanford University Hospital for use in patients with fever of unknown origin or suspected endocarditis. This included the use of an average of almost 90 mL of blood from patients obtained by several venipunctures.
