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Of all the motivations to become an infectious disease doctor, this is one of the more unusual paths taken: lose most of one leg and nearly all of your life to a series of recurrent near pan-resistant bacterial infections that you've finally fought into remission but still have a 30% chance of coming back and trying to kill you.
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As many as 10% may be non-responders
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Kyasanur Forest disease, also known as monkey fever, is a cause of hemorrhagic fever with late CNS manifestations in a geographically delimited area of India.
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Guangdong province in China, having brought SARS under control, is now facing its seasonal epidemic of Japanese encephalitis.
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Ross River and Barmah viruses are causes of febrile illness often associated with severe joint symptoms, which may persist for months.
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Neither adding a single dose of ceftriaxone to a 10-day course of doxycycline nor extending the duration of doxycycline therapy to 20 days is better than a straightforward 10-day course of oral doxycycline in the treatment of patients with erythema migrans.
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Organisms that may only be isolated by using coculture with amoeba and that are present in hospital water supplies may be implicated in some cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
