Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Epidemiology Program Office, Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics ...

Gemmell CG, Peterson PK, Schmeling D, et al. Potentiation of opsonization and phagocytosis of Streptococcus pyogenes following ...

18 Tropical Infections in Critical Care MAJ Robert Wood-Morris Infectious Diseases, B.C. Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Med ...

more indolent processes or infections of longer incubation, and do not present until six months or later. Time to presentation c ...

discussed include: severe pneumonia or adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), coma and meningoencephalitis, acute abdomen, ...

peripheral smear for confirmation and in order to determine both the species (possibly more than one) and the level of parasitem ...

CDC malaria branch clinician. Once approved, four equal doses of artesuante will be provided over a three-day period, with the r ...

rifampin, any flouroquinolone, and at least one of the injectable second-line, anti-TB drugs (i.e., capreomycin, kanamycin, and ...

Hantaviruses have a global distribution and patients typically present with hemorrhagic (petechiae, mucosal bleeding diathesis, ...

the following signs/symptoms with or without fever must be evaluated for CNS infection: meningismus, altered mental status (deli ...

amebiasis or bowel perforation in enteric fever. Risk factors for intestinal perforation in typhoid fever were a short duration ...

hepatitis and may be either early-onset (within first eight weeks) or late-onset (8 to 12 weeks) after jaundice develops (112–11 ...

Toxic Appearance and Fever Patients with a toxic appearance with fever often present difficult diagnostic dilemmas. As has alrea ...

Table 3 Severe Malaria Treatment Options Adult dose Pediatric dose Severe malaria a,b,c,d All regions Quinidine gluconate b plus ...

Adult dose Pediatric dose Investigational new drug (contact CDC for information): Artesunate followed by one of the following: A ...

prophylaxis based on the infectious agent such as ribavirin in imported Lassa fever cases (161). In the event this situation was ...

Newman RD, Parise ME, Barber AM, et al. Malaria-related deaths among U.S. travelers, 1963–2001. Ann Intern Med 2004; 141(7):547 ...

World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis control report 2008. Available at http://www.who. int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs1 ...

Lee N, Hui D, Wu A, et al. A major outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Hong Kong. N Engl J Med 2003; 348(20):1986– ...

Hoffman SL, Punjabi NH, Kumala S, et al. Reduction of mortality in chloramphenicol-treated severe typhoid fever by high-dose de ...