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The comments below are in response to the article "Early Referral of the Chronic Kidney Disease Patient is Good Practice," by Rahul Gupta, MD, MPH, FACP, which appeared in the Jan. 29, 2012, issue. The comments from two of our editorial board members represent somewhat differing perspectives on the role of the primary care clinician in the management of chronic kidney disease. Obviously there is great opportunity for improvement in this area and those of us in primary care are in a unique position to optimize outcomes. Stephen Brunton, MD, Editor
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This study confirms that cefpodoxime should only be prescribed for the treatment of cystitis when more effective recommended antibiotics cannot be used.
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Actinic keratoses (AK) is biologically in situ squamous cell carcinoma, with the potential to become invasive in a minority of cases.
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785 Tanzanian children living in an area of high malaria endemicity were intensely monitored for parasitemia and other illness from birth to 3 years of age. The degree of parasitemia was determined by number of parasites/200 WBC's on thick smear. Severe malaria was defined by WHO criteria.
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Prevnar 13 (PCV13), a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, which had been available for pediatric use since 2010, was approved at the end of 2011 by the FDA for the prevention of pneumonia and invasive disease caused by included serotypes in adults 50 years of age and older.
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A wild type Newman strain of S.aureus and the hemolysin-deficient Newman strain hla::erm were studied in wild-type mice and Nlrp3-/- and IL1r1-/- mice.
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In addition to increasing the risk of acquiring swine flu, kissing pigs could now be associated with another serious disease. Streptococcus suis meningitis is considered an emerging infectious disease, although cases of systemic infection have been described since 1954 in veterinarians.
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Jain and colleagues at the U.S. CDC evaluated the characteristics of 195 hospitalized patients with laboratory-confirmed influenza influenza A pdm09 (pH1N1) infection who had pneumonia, comparing them to hospitalized flu patients without pneumonia.
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HIV Risk Triplesin Women with an STD
Mlisana K, et al. Symptomatic vaginal discharge is a poor predictor of sexually transmitted infections and genital tract inflammation in high-risk women in South Africa. J Infect Dis 2012;206:6-14.
Classical sexually transmitted diseases drive the spread of HIV-1: Back to the future. J Infect Dis 2012;206:1-2.
