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Cognitive Effects of Estrogen Therapy; Vitamin Therapy and Restenosis; Echinacea and the Common Cold; Effects of Paxil in Children Under 18; FDA Actions.
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Multivitamins delay progression to AIDS; Tenofovir Decreases Atazanavir Levels; Breakthrough Chickenpox in Vaccinated Kids; Find the VRSA in the MRSA: Get an Etest!
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The following is a summary of selected abstracts from 3 meetings. The 43rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) met in Chicago September 14-17, 2003. The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) met in San Diego October 9-12, 2003. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene met in Philadelphia December 3-7, 2003.
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The E. coli geneticists are working on ways to facilitate rapid diagnosis, and in time, to purge eae positive strains from bovine reservoirs.
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Treponema pallidum strains resistant to azithromycin are prevalent in San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore, and Dublin.
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae may causally contribute to the development of asthma, as well as serve as a trigger for recurrent wheezing.
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Seven percent of more than 2,000 hospital admissions to the Division of Infectious Tropical Diseases at the Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, were due to fever in travelers and migrants returning from the tropics. Malaria was the most frequent diagnosis.
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed the diagnosis of rabies in 4 recipients of transplanted organs and their common donor. All 4 transplant recipients presented with rapidly progressive encephalitis within 21 to 27 days after receiving their transplant and all subsequently died.
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