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Infectious Disease Updates
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Pharmacology Watch: Do Statins Prevent Parkinson’s Disease?
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‘Pulling Mussels from a Shell’ Leads to Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning
Public health authorities in Seattle and King County were notified in July 2011 of a cluster of cases of diarrheal illness occurring in 3 of 4 members of a family that had eaten mussels that they themselves had harvested and cooked. -
Reducing Antimicrobial Toxicity: Time to Move from Mice to Men in a Clinical Trial
Clinically relevant doses of bactericidal antibiotics (quinolones, aminoglycosides and β-lactams) were shown to cause mitochondrial dysfunction and overproduction of reactive oxygen species in mammalian cells in vitro and in mice, leading to oxidative tissue damage. -
Cyclosporiasis Spreads to 20 States
The notification of the CDC of 2 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclospora infections on June 28, 2013 was their first evidence of an outbreak. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD -
FDA: Fluoroquinolones pose risk of Permanent Nerve Damage
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Serious Infections in Travelers
More than three-fourths of these serious infections were due to Plasmodium falciparum, followed at some distance by typhoid and paratyphoid fever, and by leptospirosis and a variety of other infections. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Updates
Snooping out counterfeit anti-malarials; Teflon to some; Rethinking TB screening in a low risk population