Infectious Disease Alert articles from April 2002

Infectious Disease Alert archives from April 2002

Conference summaries: ICAAC 2001, IDSA 2001, and ASTMH. (Conference Coverage).(Inter-science Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; Infectious Diseases Society of America; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
April 1, 2002... Editor's Note: The following summaries represent a selection of papers from those presented at the meetings listed below. It is important to recognize that many of these summaries are extracted only from the published abstract, and it is...

SV-40 in non-Hodgkins lymphoma. (Updates).(simian virus 40)
April 1, 2002... Sources: Vilchez R, et al. Lancet. 2002;359:817-823; Shivapurkar N, et al. Lancet. 2002;359:851-852. THE ROLE OF SIMIAN VIRUS 40 (sv-40) in the development of "soft cell" cancers, such as sarcomas, certain lung and brain cancers, and...

Reduction in the incidence of type 2 diabetes with lifestyle intervention or metformin. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Source: Knowler WC, et al. N Engl J Med. 2002;346:393-403. PERSONS WHO ARE AT HIGH RISK FOR developing type 2 diabetes (DM2) include persons with elevated fasting and 2-hour postprandial glucose levels (ie, above normal but not qualifying...

Eradication of Helicobacter pylori and risk of peptic ulcers in patients starting long-term treatment with NSAIDs. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Source: Chan FK, et al. Lancet. 2002;359:9-13. THERE ARE A VARIETY OF PATIENT groups that require long-term therapy with NSAIDs, such as arthritis sufferers. That traditional NSAIDs can produce an increased risk of significant GI bleeding...

Physiotherapy for patients with mobility problems more than 1 year after stroke: a randomized controlled trial. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Source: Green J, et al. Lancet. 2002;359:199-203. FOR STROKE VICTIMS WHO SUFFER A subsequent decrement in mobility (ie, falls, difficulty in walking, problems getting out of a chair), consequences of such disability are potentially...

EBV antibodies and risk of MS. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care).(Epstein-Barr virus; multiple sclerosis)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Source: Ascherio A, et al. JAMA. 2001;286:3083-3088. CURRENT THEORIES DOMINANTLY support an autoimmune etiologic basis for multiple sclerosis (MS). An epidemiologic phenomenon peculiar to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is its pattern of...

Coronary magnetic resonance angiography for the detection of coronary stenoses. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Source: Kim WY, et al. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:1863-1869. CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY (CANG) IS the current gold standard for diagnosis of clinically significant coronary artery disease (CAD), which is generally designated as greater than 50%...

Vitamin A intake and hip fractures among postmenopausal women. (Clinical Briefs in Primary Care).(Brief Article)
April 1, 2002... Source: Feskanich D, et al. JAMA. 2002;287:47-54. VITAMIN A AND ITS ANALOGUES (VitA) have been shown to produce changes in bone metabolism and structure that would logically increase risk of fracture. In animals, retinoic acid decreases...

GlaxoSmithKline withdrawals Lymerix: Company 'cuts losses' on controversial Lyme disease vaccine. (Pharmacology Watch).
April 1, 2002... Citing poor sales, GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it is withdrawing Lymerix, the Lyme disease vaccine, from the market. The vaccine was the first, and only, Lyme disease vaccine on the market. Lymerix generated $40 million in sales in 1999,...

Conference summaries: ICAAC 2001, IDSA 2001, and ASTMH: Part III. (Conference Coverage).(Inter-science Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy; Infectious Diseases Society of America; American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
April 15, 2002... Editor's Note: The following summaries represent a selection of papers from those presented at the meetings listed below. It is important to recognize that many of these summaries are extracted only from the published abstract, and it is...

Pseudomonas outbreak from oral hygiene product. (Updates).(Dento-o-sept from Snogg Industri AS)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Source: ProMED-mail post, April 11, 2002. www.promedmail.org. AN INCREASING NUMBER OF pseudomonas infections in hospital patients in Norway since August 2001 let to the discovery of a contaminated oral hygiene product called Dento-o-sept....

Li-VRE super-bug spreads in transplant unit. (Updates).(linezolid-resistant, van-comycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium)(Brief Article)
April 15, 2002... Source: Herrero IA, et al. N Engl J Med.2002;346:867-869. THIS REPORT FROM THE MAYO CLINIC in Minnesota describes the transmission of a linezolid-resistant, van-comycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium ("Li-VRE") among 7 patients in their...

Invasive Aspergillosis: how likely is it? (Updates).
April 15, 2002... Source: Perfect JR, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2001;33:1824-1833. THIS MYCOSES STUDY GROUP conducted an extensive evaluation of the diagnosis, risk factors, management, and outcome of 1209 patients with Aspergillus isolated from various...