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- FULLTEXT: -INFECTOLOGY: - CRYPTOCOCCAL MENINGITIS: -Paucity of initial cerebrospinal fluid inflammation in cryptococcal meningitis is associated with subsequent immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome
Background. Cryptococcal meningitis (CM)‐related immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) complicates antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 20%–40% of ART‐naive persons with ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -Community psychological and behavioral responses through the first wave of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) pandemic in Hong Kong
Background. Little is known about the community psychological and behavioral responses to influenza pandemics. Methods. Using random digit dialing, we sampled 12,965 Hong Kong residents in 13 ...
- HEPATOLOGY & INFECTOLOGY: -INFECTION & HEPATITIS E VIRUS IN SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANTS: Characteristics of autochthonous hepatitis E virus infection in solid‐organ transplant recipients in france
Background. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections can lead to chronic hepatitis in immunocompromised patients. We have investigated the risk factors for HEV infection among solid‐organ ...
- HEPATOLOGY & INFECTOLOGY: -Pig liver sausage as a source of hepatitis E virus transmission to humans
Background. The source and route of autochthonous hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections are not clearly established in industrialized countries despite evidence that it is a zoonosis in pigs. We ...
- INFECTOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT: -Not all patients with vancomycin‐resistant enterococci need to be isolated
Background. Vancomycin‐resistant enterococci (VRE) have triggered multiple outbreaks. However, VRE of genotype vanC appear not to be associated with outbreaks. The goal of this ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -AS03A‐adjuvanted influenza A (H1N1) 2009 vaccine for adults up to 85 years of age
Background. Vaccination of high‐risk groups was started shortly after the emergence of the influenza A (H1N1) 2009 pandemic virus. Methods. Healthy adults were enrolled into 2 ...
- FULLTEXT: -HIV/SIDA: -INFECTOLOGY: -Rethinking prevention of HIV type 1 infection
Research on the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–1 infection is at a critical juncture. Major methodological challenges to performing prevention trials have emerged, ...
- FULLTEXT: -PNEUMOCCOCAL PNEUMONIA: -SEROTIPOS & RISK OF DEATH. Association of serotype with risk of death due to pneumococcal pneumonia: a meta‐analysis
Background. The 92 capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae differ greatly in nasopharyngeal carriage prevalence, invasiveness, and disease incidence. There has been some debate, ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -WEAK RESISTANCE AT RIFAMPICINE OF MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS: -Comparison of two commercial assays for the characterization of rpoB mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and description of new mutations conferring weak resistance to rifamp
Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the efficiency of two commercial assays, INNO-LiPA Rif.TB and MTBDRplus, for the identification of mutations in the rpoB hot-spot region and to ...
- FULLTEXT: -INFECTOLOGY: -In vitro activity of the β-lactamase inhibitor NXL104 against KPC-2 carbapenemase and Enterobacteriaceae expressing KPC carbapenemases
Abstract. Introduction. Materials and methodsResults and discussion. Funding. Transparency declarations.References Background: NXL104 is a novel-structure β-lactamase ...
- FULLTEXT: -MECHANISM OF RESISTANCE: -INFECTOLOGY: -Overexpression of the rhamnose catabolism regulatory protein, RhaR: a novel mechanism for metronidazole resistance in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron
Abstract Abstract. Introduction. Methods. Results and discussion Funding. Transparency declarations. References Objectives: The aim of the investigation was to use in vitro ...
- ALERT VIROLOGICAL EPIDEMIOLOGIST & INFECTOLOGY !: - Prevalence, correlates, and viral dynamics of Hepatitis Delta among injection drug users
Background. Most hepatitis delta virus (HDV) prevalence estimates from the United States are >10 years old, and HDV has shown significant temporal variation in other populations. ...
- EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFLUENZA A H1N1: - INFECTOLOGY: -School Opening dates predict pandemic influenza A(H1N1) Outbreaks in the United States
Fall school openings have been consistently associated with an increase in the transmission of respiratory agents, including occasionally influenza [1]. It is difficult to measure the contribution ...
- PATHOGENESIS OF PLASMODIUM's DISEASE: On the cytoadhesion of Plasmodium vivax–infected erythrocytes, (LIKE Plasmodium falciparum)
Background. Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax are responsible for most of the global burden of malaria. Although the accentuated pathogenicity of P. falciparum occurs because of ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -EPIDEMIOLOGY COMPARATIVE: -Mortality patterns associated with the 1918 influenza pandemic in México: evidence for a spring herald wave and lack of preexisting immunity in older populations
Background. Although the mortality burden of the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic has been carefully quantified in the United States, Japan, and European countries, little is known about ...
