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Dr Frani, Just wanted to make sure I understand your question correctly. Patient has MSSA bacteremia and an infected hip prosthetic joint (presumably also MSSA) that was explanted. The question is, how soon after the explant can the hip prosthesis be ...
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Patients with HTLV-1 infection (in the absence of complicating lymphoma/leukemia) can present without lymphadenopathy or skin lesions. Prevalence of lymphadenopathy may be increased, but not an invariable finding-please see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31204876 ...
Doctors should think carefully before testing patients for a urinary tract infection (UTI) to avoid over-diagnosis and unnecessary antibiotic treatment, according to updated asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB) guidelines released by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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IDSA’s 2019 D.A. Henderson Award winner Dr. Cathy Wilfert has been named a winner of the 2019 North Carolina Awards, the highest civilian honor given by the state of North Carolina for her work in the prevention and treatment of HIV. Dr. Wilfert’s groundbreaking research in preventing maternal transmission of HIV led to a two-thirds reduction in the transmission of the disease from mother to child through pregnancy in the U.S. Dr. Wilfert will be presented with the award at the Raleigh Convention Center on Saturday, Nov. 16. IDSA will be a sponsor of the awards ceremony in honor of Dr. Wilfert. Read More.
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