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Bacterial meningitis is a feared medical illness that has a high morbidity and mortality rate. Meningitis can present in any age group, although the predominant pathogenic organisms do vary by age.
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Physicians at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) report a cluster of 5 cases of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in illegal immigrants from East Africa, which surprisingly turned out to be consistent with New World Leishmaniasis, although all 5 had come from an area endemic for Old World Leishmaniasis. How did this occur?
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In this issue: FDA issues multiple drug safety alerts; ARBs and cancer risk; and FDA actions.
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As of 2006, the ongoing transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus (WPV) was limited to only four countries Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nigeria.
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Herrera and colleagues reviewed the use of Interferon-ã release assays (IGRAs) for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Interferon-ã is released by CD4 cells when infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), and IGRAs measure Interferon-ã response in blood.
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A 58-year-old liberian-born woman was in excellent general health, living and working in a large academic medical center in Rhode Island for more than 20 years when she developed nonspecific gastrointestinal symptoms and underwent endoscopy, which revealed Strongyloides stercoralis larvae on a duodenal biopsy in March 2010.
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As of june 29, 2011, german authorities reported 3,189 cases of entero-hemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) infections, and 884 other cases have also been identified.
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Despite the recent gains achieved by multidisciplinary control programs, malaria still kills nearly 1 million people and causes almost 300 million symptomatic illnesses globally per year, with most of this burden borne by sub-Saharan Africa.
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In this issue: Two new drugs for treatment of hepatitis C; NSAIDs and myocardial infarction risk; AIM-HIGH clinical trial stopped; and FDA actions.
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Coccidioidal infections are always unique the travel history often provides the right clue for the practitioner but first you have to think to ask the right question.