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Dengue Virus Infections in Infants

In a dengue-endemic area, the incidence of dengue infection exceeded 10% in infants aged 2–15 months; illness was generally mild or asymptomatic.

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Single-Dose Therapy for Visceral LeishmaniasisFree

A single infusion of liposomal amphotericin B was not inferior to a 15-dose regimen of amphotericin B deoxycholate.

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Advances in Preventing Surgical-Site InfectionsFree

Preoperative cleansing with chlorhexidine-alcohol (rather than povidone-iodine), and detecting and decolonizing Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriers, were each found to reduce the infection rate.

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Role of PVL in Skin Infection

The amount of Panton-Valentine leukocidin produced by strains of Staphylococcus aureus may be critical in the development of skin infection.

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Epidemiology of Severe Skin and Skin-Structure Infections

Among patients hospitalized with such infections at a St. Louis teaching hospital in 2006 and 2007, most cases were healthcare associated.

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Complex Regional Pain Syndrome I as a Small-Fiber Neuropathy

  • Neurology

A review of evidence that supports this often-overlooked pathology as a cause of CRPS I

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Pain Control in Newborn InfantsFree

Skin-to-skin contact plus 25% oral dextrose is the most effective procedural pain control in newborns.

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Bait and Switch — Vaccinia Infection from Animal Rabies Vaccine

Contact with liquid vaccinia-rabies glycoprotein recombinant virus vaccine, used to prevent rabies spread among animals, caused vaccinia infection in an immunocompromised woman.

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Genetic Susceptibility to Fungal Infections

Immunologic and genetic studies in patients with chronic Candida infections revealed the critical roles played by the β-glucan receptor dectin-1 pathway and interleukin-17 release.

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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections of the Cheek

Researchers describe a series of seven children with such infections. Recovery took many months, and clarithromycin did not seem to hasten resolution.

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