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A retrospective review of one major continental United States (CONUS) tertiary care medical center's plastic surgery department's experience in the management of combat wounds was performed and included all cases seen between April 2003 and December 2005. Of the 68 patients treated, 16.2% sustained injuries to the head/face/neck, 61.8% had lower extremity injuries, 29.4% had upper extremity injuries, 15.6% had both upper and lower extremity injuries, and 35.9% had multiple sites of injuries.
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Enterococcus used to be considered the caboose of pathogens; maybe it mattered, but it still was at the far rear.
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In this study, 165 clinical isolates of rapidly growing mycobacteria (including M. abscessus, M. chelonae, M. peregrinum, M. fortuitum, M. mucogenicum, M. mageritense, M. alvei, M. smegmatis, M. porcinum, M. septicum, and M. wolinskyi) were tested for in vitro susceptibility to tigecycline and 10 other antibiotics (erythromycin, clarithromycin, azithro-mycin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, amikacin, tobra-mycin, cefoxitin, doxycycline, and trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) using a broth microdilution method.
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Data collected from the CDC's two surveillance systems for hospital-acquired infections tracked the rate of central-line-associated blood stream infections (CLA-BSIs) from 1997-2007. Data were not collected in 2005 during the transition between the two systems.
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An increasing number of reports document transmission of MRSA between humans and animals, including people and their pets, horse trainers, and farm personnel.
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This exploratory study investigated the relationship between respiratory infections and MBL serum concentrations and the presence of six SNPs in the MBL2 gene promoter region (alleles H/L, X/Y, and P/Q) and exon 1 (wild type allele A and variant alleles B, C, and D) using real-time PCR.
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Malaria ranks among the world's most important infectious diseases. The last year for which good statistics have been amassed, 2006, saw 250 million cases and at least one million deaths.
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For persons aged 65 or older in the United States, congestive heart failure (CHF) remains the most common diagnosis for hospital admission.
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Evaluation of the clinical course of the 21,094 eligible U.S. male physicians in the Physicians' Health Study revealed that an elevated BMI in both pre-obese and obese subjects was associated with an increased risk of CHF and that vigorous physical activity was associated with a decreased risk of CHF.