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An Oral Agent for Smallpox?; Diagnostic Testing for SARS; Itraconazole Prophylaxis in CGD
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Treatment of pulmonary M xenopi infection with isoniazid and rifampin, with or without ethambutol, appeared to be only modestly effective.
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Ring wearing by health care workers increases the frequency of hand contamination with nosocomial pathogens and decreases the efficacy of all types of hand hygiene studied, included alcohol-based hand rub.
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PDAs may soon become indispensable to ID physicians.
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Detection of central venous catheter thrombosis by ultrasound may provide an early warning system for the presence of catheter-related infection.
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Health care workers who care for HIV-infected, hemodialysis, or transplant patients are at increased risk of HHV-8 infection.
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In patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA), increasing the levels of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) decreases sickle cell hemoglobin polymerization and erythrocyte sickling.
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The neurological manifestations of chronic cirrhosis and hepatic failure are protean. Myoclonus (often negative), chorea, and dystonia may occur in these patients, often accompanied by pyramidal dysfunction and dementia.