Scoring System Stratifies Mortality Risk in HIV With Toxoplasma Encephalitis
A total of 7 variables were selected for the scoring system and assigned an arbitrary variable based on the regression coefficient.
A total of 7 variables were selected for the scoring system and assigned an arbitrary variable based on the regression coefficient.
A high frequency of climate-change associated severe weather events have created an increased human-to-human transmission risk for novel diseases.
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.
The FDA has cleared for marketing the ZEUS Borrelia Modified Two-Tiered Testing algorithm to help in the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
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…
Significant changes may have occurred in France, in the population that developed malaria after travel in endemic areas, which implies that preventative strategies need to be adapted.
The Food and Drug Administration has granted an investigational treatment for severe malaria Breakthrough Therapy designation.
Only 1.0 percent of reported cases of spotted fever rickettsioses (SFR) meet the confirmed case definition.