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New SSI guidelines: Making perfect the enemy of good?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated guidelines for preventing surgical site infections, focusing on some difficult issues in an exhaustive and largely futile attempt to find conclusive data on various practices. As a result, "no recommendation" is a recurrent theme in the document, which was the work of the CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC).
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Chikungunya Closer to Home
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Great Expectations Dashed: Results of another HIV Vaccine Study Disappoint
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Schistosomiasis in Returned Travelers
Ten of 19 members of an Israeli tour group chose to swim in the high-altitude fresh water of a crater lake in western Uganda. All 10 (and none of the 9 non-swimmers in the group) developed acute schistosomiasis with headache (10 of 10), fever (9 of 10), eosinophilia (9 of 10), and cough (8 of 10) three to seven weeks after the exposure. -
Efficacy of Higher-dose Oseltamivir in Adults with Influenza A and B
In a prospective, open-label, intervention study conducted over four influenza seasons, higher dose oseltamivir compared to standard dose produced no additional benefits in patients with influenza A infection. -
Sudden Unexpected Cardiac Death from Lyme Disease
Many more cases of Lyme carditis may go unrecognized -
Updates by Carol A. Kemper, MD, FACP
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Stanford offers WEB Course in Antibiotic Stewardship
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CDC issues Health Advisory Alert on Chikungunya Virus Infections
As this issue went to press, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory notice to public health officials and clinicians on recognizing, managing, and reporting chikungunya virus infections in travelers returning from the Caribbean. -
Hospital: No patient deaths linked to CRE outbreak