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Infection control professionals are killing two birds with one shot, administering annual flu vaccine in rapid-fire fashion to simulate immunizing health care workers against an emerging influenza pandemic.
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A norovirus outbreak can be notoriously difficult to control in a long-term care setting before it exacts a huge toll on residents and staff.
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Clinicians have been traditionally skittish about the long arm of the law reaching into the realm of medicine, but no one is curbing their enthusiasm about the potential benefits of a proposed federal law targeting the serious problem of antibiotic resistance.
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Investigators are trying to verify or refute the lingering suspicion that an undefined level of Clostridium difficile is being transmitted to humans through meat in the food supply.
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A military serviceman stationed in Hawaii, presented to base with intense pruritus, restlessness, dyspnea, and progressive paresthesias, with burning skin discomfort.
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In June, 2006, the FDA licensed the first human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV) to prevent cervical cancer and other HPV-associated cancers: vaginal, urethral, and oral tumors. Is this yet another travel vaccine for our patients?
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A retrospective cohort study of culture-negative (CN) prosthetic joint infection (PJI) was performed on patients who underwent total hip or total knee arthroplasty at Mayo Clinic from 1990-1999.
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Micafungin at doses of both 100 mg and 150 mg daily was non-inferior to caspofungin in the treatment of invasive candidiasis and there was no significant difference in outcomes when the two doses of micafungin were compared.
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Although imported cholera cases in developed countries, such as France, may continue to decline, the global number of cholera cases continues to rise at an alarming rate. Orally administered cholera vaccine may hold promise in controlling cholera epidemics.
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Prescribing β-lactam antibiotics for children with upper respiratory tract infections is associated with in a 3-fold increase in the MIC for ampicillin and 2-fold increase of the ICEHin1056 resistance gene of oropharyngeal Haemophilus isolates.