Infectious Disease Alert articles from January 2002

Infectious Disease Alert archives from January 2002

Abstract & Commentary: Interpretation of Lumbar Puncture Cultures After Parenteral Antibiotic Pretreatment.
January 1, 2002... Synopsis: Sterilization of CSF after an initial dose of parenteral antibiotic therapy occurred within 2 hours for Neisseria meningitidis, began at 4 hours for Streptococcus pneumoniae, and after 8 hours for group B Streptococcus. Source:...

Pharmacology Update: A Novel once-a-day carbapenem.
January 1, 2002... MERCK HAS RECEIVED FDA APPROVAL FOR ERTAPENem (Invanz [TM]), a once-daily parenteral carbapenem. It has a broad spectrum of activity as shown in Table 1. Its spectrum is similar to that of imipenem, but with lesser activity against Pseudomonas...

Conference Coverage; Conference Summaries of ICAAC 2001, IDSA 2001, and ASTMH 2001: Part I.
January 1, 2002... Clinical Mycology Candida: Clinical Disease and Diagnosis Bloodstream Infections. A large population-based surveillance study found that the average annual adjusted incidence of candidemia was 10.3 per 100,000 population and the...

Smallpox vaccine trials begin. (Updates).
January 1, 2002... Source: ProMED-mail post, Nov. 17, 2001. www.promedmail.org. YOU NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D SEE the day. The NIAID has initiated a large-scale trial of smallpox vaccination of 684 adults at 4 clinical research sites throughout the United States....

D4T Phenotypic Resistance. (Updates).(stavudine )
January 1, 2002... Source: Ross L, et al. AIDS Res Hum Antiretrovir. 2001;17:1107-1115. STUDIES SUGGEST THAT THE AD-ministration of stavudine (D4T), independent of zidovudine (AZT), may induce HIV genotypic mutations commonly associated with AZT resistance...

VAQTA withdrawal creates a stir. (Updates).
January 1, 2002... Source: ProMED-mail post, Dec. 5-14, 2001, www.promedmail.org; Eurosurveillance Weekly, Dec. 5, 2001; TravelMED@YORKU.CA. MERCK AND AVENTIS PASTEUR (which markets this Merck product in the EU) recently announced the "recall" of VAQTA...

Conference summaries: ICAAC 2001, IDSA 2001, and ASTMH: part II.(41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 39th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene)
January 15, 2002... CONFERENCE COVERAGE 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...

Fungal prophylaxis in preemies. (Updates).
January 15, 2002... Source: Kaufman D, et al. N Engl J Med. 2001;345:1660-1666. ON THE HEELS OF A RECENT Infectious Disease Alert discussing the frequency and risks of invasive candidiasis in neonates, (Infectious Disease Alert. 2001;21:40) Kaufman and...

Probing the cause of nongonococcal urethritis. (Updates).
January 15, 2002... Source: Homer P, et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2001;32:995-1003. HOMER AND COLLEAGUES CONDUCTED an in-depth examination of the etiology and natural history after treatment of 114 heterosexual men with acute, symptomatic nongonococcal urethritis...

Hepatitis E in rats and the homeless? (Updates).
January 15, 2002... Source: ProMED-mailpost, Nov. 22, 2001. www.promedmail.org. FOLLOWING THE IDENTIFICATION OF A hepatitis E-like virus in rats captured in Los Angeles and Orange County, California, researchers suspect they may have hit upon a source of...