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This is the latest of several important publications by Dr. Fullerton and her colleagues, at The University of California at San Francisco, describing details of the epidemiology of pediatric stroke during the last 2 decades of the 20th century.
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These papers and the accompanying editorial by Rascol bring attention to a known but under-recognized complication of ergot derivatives.
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Treatment of TGA patients with antiplatelet treatment is likely warranted, particularly if there are underlying vascular risk factors.
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Converging evidence implicates both protein aggregation as well as oxidative damage in mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinsons disease pathogenesis. It is likely that these factors may interact.
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These findings are amongst the most direct data to date that oxidative damage plays a critical role in normal human aging.
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The good news from the Oxford Vascular Study is that community-wide risk factor modifications and preventive treatment are worth the effort, and that further reductions in stroke incidence are possible with more widespread stroke prevention programs.
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Ninety-three percent of sputum isolates from a single long-term care facility were resistant to quinolones. Epidemiologic study showed an association with prior receipt of levofloxacin. Strains were closely related by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis, indicating patient to patient spread of a resistant clone.
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In what may be a harbinger of a changing host preference, it was found that over one-half of cases of malaria in an area of Malaysian Borneo were caused by Plasmodium knowlesi, monkey pathogen. Such cases are likely to go unrecognized because of the great difficulty in distinguishing this organism from Plasmodium malariae by microscopy.
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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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Mystery Lung Nodule in BakerCase Closed; Frequency of CJD in Asymptomatic Britons; Prepared Infant Formula a Risk; Does Mefloquine Pose an Unacceptable Risk to US Soldiers?; Adherence with HIV Vaccination Guidelines Poor