Infectious Disease Alert articles from July 2008

Infectious Disease Alert archives from July 2008

Lactams at Last.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Ceftobiprole: MRSA Coverage Comes to [beta]-Lactams at Last Abstract & Commentary By Brian G. Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford University School...

Pneumococcal Vaccine has Changed the Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Meningitis.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Pneumococcal Vaccine has Changed the Epidemiology of Pneumococcal Meningitis Abstract & Commentary By Hal B. Jenson, MD, FAAP, Chief Academic Officer, Baystate Health Professor of Pediatrics and Dean of the Western Campus of Tufts...

Excluding Bacteremia in Children with Central Venous Catheters.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Excluding Bacteremia in Children with Central Venous Catheters Abstract & Commentary By Hal B. Jenson, MD, FAAP, Chief Academic Officer, Baystate Health Professor of Pediatrics and Dean of the Western Campus of Tufts University School...

Pseudo Fever Due to Mucositis.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Pseudo Fever Due to Mucositis Abstract & Commentary By Dean L. Winslow, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Chief, Division of AIDS Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center; Clinical Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine, Section Manager,...

Whither PANDAS?(pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with group A streptococcal infections)(Report)
July 1, 2008... Whither PANDAS? Abstract & Commentary By Hal B. Jenson, MD, FAAP, Chief Academic Officer, Baystate Health Professor of Pediatrics and Dean of the Western Campus of Tufts University School of Medicine, Baystate Medical Center...

D-glucan Assay for Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infection.(Report)
July 1, 2008... Serum (1 [rightwards arrow]3) [beta]-D-glucan Assay for Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infection Abstract & Commentary By Dean L. Winslow, MD, FACP, FIDSA, Chief, Division of AIDS Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center; Clinical...

Eosinophilia in Travelers: A Role for Empiric Antihelminthic Therapy?(Clinical report)
July 1, 2008... Eosinophilia in Travelers: A Role for Empiric Antihelminthic Therapy? Abstract & Commentary By Brian G. Blackburn, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, Stanford...

Updates By Carol A. Kemper, MD, FACP.(Fellow of the American College of Physicians)(briefs)(Report)
July 1, 2008... Updates By Carol A. Kemper, MD, FACP, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford University, Division of Infectious Diseases; Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Section Editor, Updates; Section Editor, HIV, is Associate Editor for...

CME Objectives/questions.
July 1, 2008... CME Objectives The objectives of Infectious Disease Alert are to: *discuss the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases; *present current data regarding the use of new antibiotics for commonly diagnosed diseases and new uses...