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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the following answers to some frequently asked questions about its new guidelines of HIV testing:
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Kansas City, KS. During May 1-Dec. 31, 2005, a total of 201 confirmed Shigella sonnei infections were reported among residents of Kansas City, KS. Median age of patients was 7 years (range: 1-70 years).
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While a matter of much concern and discussion in the United States, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) also is arising in some rather bizarre manifestations in Europe.
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Trying to head off pandemic panic, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has created a common-sense influenza pandemic planning guide for individuals and families.
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There exists no consensus about the best means for diagnosing bloodstream infections related to intravascular devices (IVD), leading Safdar and colleagues to conduct a formal meta-analysis using the data supplied by 51 of the 185 studies published between 1966 and July 31, 2004, that met the selection criteria.
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Clinicians should not prescribe amantadine and rimantadine because the influenza A (H3N2) virus currently circulating in the United States has developed almost complete resistance to the antiviral drugs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is rampant in the nations nursing homes, and 4% of MRSA isolates in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are the emerging community associated strains (CA-MRSA), an epidemiologist reports.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, alcohol hand rubs demonstrated surprising efficacy against Clostridium difficile (C. diff) in a study by one of the nations leading researchers on the troublesome nosocomial pathogen.
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Though the findings are very preliminary, there is some evidence to suggest that Clostridium difficile may be arising independently as a community pathogen a la methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.