Infectious Disease News & Articles

1 Effectiveness of Antimicrobial Guidelines for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Children Pediatrics, May 16, 2012

2 Evaluation of the MALDI TOF-MS method for identification of Candida strains isolated from blood cultures Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, May 16, 2012

3 Impact of oral simvastatin therapy on acute lung injury during pneumococcal pneumonia Full Text BMC Microbiology, May 16, 2012    Clinical Article

4 Creating a Mammalian-Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus: Social Contracts, Prudence, and Alternative Perspectives The Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 16, 2012

5 Pentoxifylline decreases oxidized lipid products in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis: New evidence on the potential therapeutic mechanism Hepatology, May 16, 2012    Clinical Article

6 Increased Th17 cells contribute to disease progression in patients with HBV-associated liver cirrhosis Journal of Viral Hepatitis, May 16, 2012

7 Pediatric tuberculosis: new guidelines and recommendations Current Opinion in Pediatrics, May 16, 2012

8 Current practices of partner notification among MSM with HIV, gonorrhoea and syphilis in the Netherlands: an urgent need for improvement Full Text BMC Infectious Diseases, May 16, 2012

9 Cigarette Smoking and Fetal Morbidity Outcomes in a Large Cohort of HIV-Infected Mothers Nicotine & Tobacco Research, May 16, 2012

10 Temporal trends of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) drug-resistance molecular markers in Plasmodium falciparum parasites from pregnant women in western Kenya Full Text Malaria Journal, May 16, 2012    Clinical Article

11 Fidaxomicin: a guide to its use in Clostridium difficile infection Drugs & Therapy Perspectives, May 16, 2012    Clinical Article

12 HIV-associated nephropathy: a diagnosis in evolution Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, May 16, 2012

13 Invasive fungal infections following liver transplantation 2003-2007: Incidence, risk factors, survival and the impact of fluconazole-resistant Candida parapsilosis Liver Transplantation, May 16, 2012

14 The anaemia of Plasmodium vivax malaria Full Text Malaria Journal, May 16, 2012

15 Treatment for Schistosoma japonicum, Reduction of Intestinal Parasite Load, and Cognitive Test Score Improvements in School-Aged Children Full Text PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, May 16, 2012

16 Corallopyronin A specifically targets and depletes essential obligate Wolbachia endobacteria from filarial nematodes in vivo The Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 16, 2012    Clinical Article

17 Prospective Blinded Laboratory Assessment of Prophylactic Antibiotic Compliance in a Pediatric Outpatient Setting The Journal of Urology, May 16, 2012

18 Transcription factor Efg1 contributes to the tolerance of Candida albicans biofilms against antifungal agents in vitro and in vivo Journal of Medical Microbiology, May 16, 2012    Clinical Article

19 CAPRISA 004 Tenofovir Microbicide Trial: No Impact of Tenofovir Gel on the HIV Transmission Bottleneck The Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 16, 2012

20 Intraocular infections in the neonatal intensive care unit Full Text Clinical Ophthalmology, May 16, 2012

1 Doxycycline vs. macrolides in combination therapy for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia Clinical Microbiology and Infection, April 17, 2012

2 Randomised clinical trial: the benefit of combination therapy with adefovir and lamivudine for chronic hepatitis B Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, April 4, 2012

3 Fidaxomicin versus vancomycin for infection with Clostridium difficile in Europe, Canada, and the USA: a double-blind, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial The Lancet Infectious Diseases, March 27, 2012

4 Macrolides vs. quinolones for community-acquired pneumonia: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Clinical Microbiology and Infection, April 18, 2012

5 Timing of antibiotic administration and outcomes of hospitalized patients with community-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia Clinical Microbiology and Infection, April 25, 2012

6 Statin use and the risk of Clostridium difficile in academic medical centres Gut, April 11, 2012

7 The etiology of severe acute gastroenteritis among adults visiting emergency departments in the United States The Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 2, 2012

8 Impact of guideline-concordant antibiotics and macrolide/β-lactam combinations in 3203 patients hospitalized with pneumonia: prospective cohort study Clinical Microbiology and Infection, April 19, 2012

9 Use of interferon-gamma release assays in a health care worker screening program: Experience From a tertiary care centre in the United States Canadian Respiratory Journal, April 24, 2012

10 Macrolides vs. quinolones for community-acquired pneumonia: Meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials Clinical Microbiology and Infection, March 26, 2012    Evidence Based Medicine

11 Antibiotic treatment of children with community-acquired pneumonia: Comparison of penicillin or ampicillin versus cefuroxime Pediatric Pulmonology, April 9, 2012

12 Adjunct immunotherapies for tuberculosis The Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 3, 2012

13 A multicentre, open-label, randomised comparative study of tigecycline versus ceftriaxone sodium plus metronidazole for the treatment of hospitalised subjects with complicated intra-abdominal infections Clinical Microbiology and Infection, April 17, 2012

14 The MONET trial: week 144 analysis of the efficacy of darunavir/ritonavir (DRV/r) monotherapy versus DRV/r plus two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, for patients with viral load < 50 HIV-1 RNA copies/mL at baseline HIV Medicine, April 17, 2012

15 A Randomized Controlled Trial of Zinc as Adjuvant Therapy for Severe Pneumonia in Young Children Pediatrics, April 13, 2012

16 Association of Diagnostic Coding With Trends in Hospitalizations and Mortality of Patients With Pneumonia, 2003-2009 JAMA, April 11, 2012

17 Diagnostics for community-acquired and atypical pneumonia Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, April 6, 2012

18 Illness severity in community-onset invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection and the presence of virulence genes The Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 10, 2012

19 Are Prosthetic Spacers Safe to Use in 2-Stage Treatment for Infected Total Knee Arthroplasty Journal of Arthroplasty, April 18, 2012

20 Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus From Mothers to Newborns The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, April 12, 2012