Infectious Diseases
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Novel HCV therapy leads to rapid response
Major finding: Among hepatitis C patients who received the protease inhibitor danoprevir in addition to a regimen of peginterferon alfa-2a/...
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Nonmedical exemption population clusters factor into 2010 California pertussis outbreak
Major finding: Nonmedical exemption population clusters were 2.5 times more likely to overlap with regional pertussis case clusters in California....
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Mortality data prompt boxed warning for tigecycline
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Flu outlook 2013-2014: Don’t hesitate. Vaccinate!
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Nearly half of C. difficile cases are genetically distinct from previous cases
Major Finding: In a review of 957 isolates from C.
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M. genitalium demands new STI treatment strategy
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‘Eczema coxsackium’ cutaneous eruptions characterized
Major finding: The most common cutaneous findings were vesiculobullous and erosive eruptions in 99% of patients, eczema herpeticum-like rash in 55...
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Beta-lactams worth the risk in bacteremic patients with penicillin allergies
Major finding: Not one of 59 bacteremic patients with a documented penicillin allergy had an allergic reaction to empiric beta-lactim treatment....
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Real-world SVR rate about 33% with hepatitis C triple therapy
Major finding: Of 42 patients with hepatitis C who started on triple therapy with boceprevir, ribavirin, and interferon, 18 completed treatment...
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Immune globulin may not block intrauterine CMV transmission
Major finding: Thirty percent of women given intravenous anti-CMV hyperimmune globulin, but 44% of those given a saline placebo, passed CMV on to...
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New Candida species isolated in U.S.
Major finding: Unlike C. albicans, C.