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A 46-year-old male presented to a San Jose, California, hospital emergency department with with bilateral diplopia dysphagia, dysphonia, and weakness of his proximal arms. He had been seen in several other medical care facilities over the previous days without diagnosis. The patient regularly self-injected with black tar heroin and had been doing so for 8 years.
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Neuraminidase inhibitors are a class of antivirals that have activity against both influenza A and B viruses. Influenza neuraminidase cleaves terminal sialic acid residues and damages the receptors recognized by viral hemagglutinin, thereby facilitating release of virus from infected cells.
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Mangia and colleagues in italy evaluated treatment of 283 patients with chronic hepatitis due to hepatitis C virus genotypes 2 and 3. They used a relatively select group of patients, and were able to follow them closely over the year of the study.
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Researchers have identified 2 distinct strains of monkeypox virus, one of which appears to be significantly less virulent than the other, possibly explaining the lack of deaths in the 2003 Midwestern outbreak.
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Is It Hot In Here?; Homeopathy vs Conventional Medicine; FDA Actions
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The Gustave-Roussy Institute is a 400-bed hospital near Paris, that serves patients with solid and hematological malignancies. This study of anaerobic bacteremia covered the period from 1993-1998. There were 7989 positive blood cultures (6.8%) that were considered significant.
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It is well known that cows may be the source of verocytotoxigenic E. coli (VTEC) that is serotype 0157. Proof of a bovine connection for other serotypes of VTEC is lacking.
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Surveillance indicates that community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) strains are beginning to appear with increasing frequency in certain parts of Europe.
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This prospective study recruited 20 healthy, HIV-uninfected subjects to receive a 6-week course of either stavudine (d4T) plus lamivudine (3TC) or zidovudine (ZDV) plus lamivudine.
