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The inevitability of progression of bacterial resistance to antibiotics used in the clinic and other settings dictates the need for approaches that go beyond antimicrobial stewardship and the development of new antibiotics.
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Central nervous system infection due to free-living amebae generally manifests as either acute meningitis or focal encephalitis.
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A retrospective review of 211 inpatients admitted to the US Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort in early 2003 revealed 57 patients with A. baumannii infection.
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Although Enzyme-Immunoassay (EIA) tests have replaced cytotoxin assays for diagnosis of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) in most US laboratories, the changing epidemiology of this disease suggests that an adjustment in diagnostic testing algorithms is needed.
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In This Issue: Guidelines for prediabetes from The American College of Endocrinology; statins for the prevention of dementia? Possible help for women suffering from sexual side effects while on antidepressants; government incentives for electronic prescribing; FDA Actions.
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Often there are articles in the ultrasound literature that have diagnostic implications extending far past the ultrasound findings that were the centerpieces of these papers.
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Cho and colleagues studied 47 women with ultrasound-proven adenomyosis over a 3-year time period.
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These Israeli researchers assigned 44 women with overactive bladder alternately into 2 groups: one group receiving 3 months of pelvic floor rehabilitation, and the other receiving oxybutynin.
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Two clinical trials compared rivaroxaban vs enoxaparin prophylactic treatment to prevent venous thromboembolism (VTE) after total hip or knee arthroplasty.