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Although there is little data to support this, I routinely counsel my HIV-infected patients to get seasonal and H1N1 vaccine, explaining that while they are probably at no greater risk for "catching the flu," they may be at greater risk for more severe symptoms and complications than someone without HIV.
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A 39-year-old man had traveled for four weeks to the Pantanal region of Brazil, a popular ecotourism area, where he had walked barefoot on several occasions.
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The purpose of this study was to estimate the association between antibacterial medications and selected birth defects.
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The introduction of accellular pertussis vaccines represented an important advance in public health, but developing a vaccine is not synonymous with protecting a population.
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A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of the efficacy of oral oseltamivir twice daily started within 24 hours of onset of influenza symptoms (fever, plus cough, rhinitis, or sore throat) was conducted in children 1-3 years of age at a single primary care study site in Finland during the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 influenza seasons.
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A nationwide survey conducted in March 2008 of 429 pediatricians and 419 family physicians in the United States with response rates of 81% and 79%, respectively, showed that 98% of pediatricians and 80% of family physicians were administering HPV vaccine in their offices.
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In this issue: Antiviral drugs and birth defects, bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, naltrexone plus bupropion for weight loss, 2010-11 influenza vaccine, FDA Actions.
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As part of a longitudinal study of host/parasite relationships, which was initiated in two Senegalese villages in 1990 (and initially focused on malaria and tick-borne borreliosis), the potential of T. whipplei to cause infection in patients with fever of unknown etiology and negative test results for malaria was initiated in late 2008 and continued until the summer of 2009.
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Investigators in lausanne, switzerland cultured the noses of 405 new hospital workers for Staphylococcus aureus, then checked them again about nine months later.
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Two-hundred eleven adipose biopsies were obtained from 59 patients participating in the Western Australia HIV cohort study.