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Dabigatran is a novel anticoagulant that has been shown to be at least as good as warfarin at preventing thromboembolism in atrial fibrillation (AF).
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Pacemaker or defibrillator leads have been shown to have attached thrombi in up to one-third of cases and asymptomatic pulmonary emboli have been documented in up to 20% of patients.
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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.
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Snooping out counterfeit anti-malarials; Teflon to some; Rethinking TB screening in a low risk population
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The novel coronavirus which emerged in the Middle East, now officially called MERS-CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus), has continued to cause new, often fatal infections. As of June 7, 2013, there have been 55 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Two recent studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention evaluated the risks for spread of respiratory viruses from travelers on commercial airplanes.
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In a matched, retrospective cohort study, early use of daptomycin compared to vancomycin in MRSA bacteremia with vancomycin MICs > 1 ìg/mL resulted in improved clinical outcomes, including less clinical failure at 30 days, lower mortality and less persistent bacteremia.