Infectious Diseases
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Lower C. difficile mortality with vancomycin than metronidazole
Clostridium difficile
News from NORD
A-T Children’s Project Publishes Handbook on Caring for People With Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Article
Erdheim-Chester Disease Symposium to Take Place in New York
News from NORD
Abstracts Are Being Accepted for HHT International Scientific Conference
News from NORD
Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration Conference Set for May 5
News
Don’t delay pneumococcal conjugate vaccine for preterm infants
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Double-dose influenza vaccine effective against type B strains
All children under the age of 3 years benefited from double-dose IIV4 vaccination.
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Assay testing accurate in distinguishing bacterial from viral respiratory tract infections
New assay technology holds promise for reducing overprescribing of antibiotics to young children in the hospital.
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Statin use increases risk of herpes zoster
Statin use, as well as how recent statin exposure occurred, are significant risk factors of herpes zoster.
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Replicative Zika RNA found in brain and placental tissue
U.S.-based researchers have isolated replicative Zika virus RNA from the brain tissue of infants with microcephaly, and the placenta and fetal...