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Nosocomial infections are unfortunately common in intensive care units all across the United States. Although a wide variety of guidelines and treatment options exist for common types of nosocomial infections, such as catheter-related bloodstream infections or the ventilator-associated pneumonia, much less importance is given in critical care to Clostridium difficile infections.
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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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The absorption of thyroxine is strongly influenced by stomach acidity, according to new study.
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