Researchers reviewed the recently released Lyme disease guidelines and addressed their appropriate inclusion of and association with psychiatric illnesses.
For patients with normal glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity in malaria-endemic areas where frequent relapsing strains of Plasmodium vivax are prevalent, a 7-day high-dose course of primaquine was noninferior to a 14-day course.
Eli Lilly was the only pharmaceutical company providing quinidine gluconate in the United States, but in November 2017 it stopped manufacturing the drug and the remaining supplies expired.
In patients with malaria who have normal levels of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, 7-day primaquine was well tolerated and noninferior to 14-day primaquine.
Dihydroartemisinin plus piperaquine for treating multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum malaria should no longer be used in southeast Asia as a result of new resistance mutations.
Lyme disease, a vector-borne illness caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted to humans by deer ticks. It is currently nearing endemic levels of infection in North America; the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a 130.6% increase in confirmed cases between 1997 and 2017 (12,801-29,513 cases, respectively)1. Other…
Several sentinel chickens in the same flock have tested positive for Eastern Equine Encephalitis infection thus increasing risk of transmission to humans.
High-resolution maps of Plasmodium falciparum malaria informs where malaria elimination efforts should be strengthened by highlighting where burden remains high.
The CDC has summarized present and updated guidelines on dengue and Zika virus diagnostic testing in patients with a clinically compatible illness who live in or recently traveled to an endemic area.
Although most providers are familiar with the symptoms of Lyme disease, coinfection with other tickborne illnesses such as babesiosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and human monocytic ehrlichiosis is possible and becoming more prevalent.
In an investigation of Lyme disease risk in the urban setting of New York City, forest parks with vegetated buffers and increased connectivity had higher Ixodes scapularis nymph densities, and the degree of connectivity strongly determined Borrelia burgdorferi nymphal infection prevalence, according to data published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Because most tickborne disease studies in…
