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Travelers' diarrhea is the most common clincal ailment affecting tourism among travelers who move from industrialized to developing countries.
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Since 1995, the outlook for patients with hiv infection has improved significantly with the advent of triple-drug-potent antiretroviral (ARV) therapy regimens.
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Antiaging Supplements Proven Ineffective; The Three Most Common Culprits of ADE; New Guidelines for Lyme Disease Prevention; FDA Actions
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Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee; Refractory Asthma and TNFConnection?; FDA Actions
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Shan and colleagues examined outcomes of 18 gastrointestinal surgery patients with invasive candidiasis who were treated preemptively based on clinical criteria from 1999 through 2002, and compared them to outcomes of 18 patients treated only on the basis of positive blood cultures or other unequivocal evidence of deep infection from 1995 through 1998.
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Following the introduction of more highly active antiretroviral therapy in ~1995, epidemiologists observed a 50% decrease in rates of invasive pneumococcal disease in persons with HIV/AIDS.
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The laboratory group from the Pasteur Institute and inserm screened for CCR5 coding region polymorphisms in 3 groups of Vietnamese subjects, including 47 HIV-1 infected intravenous drug users (IDUs), 50 highly HIV-1 exposed but seronegative IDUs, and 37 HIV-1 unexposed seronegative individuals.
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Fungal infections are becoming more prevalent, as Candida spp. represent the fourth most common organism recovered from blood of hospitalized patients in the United States.
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In the autumn of 2001, construction workers in the Siaures Miestalis (Northern Town) section of Vilnius uncovered a mass grave containing several thousand neatly stacked skeletons, most in a fetal position.