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Continuous infectious diseases coverage by merging with a hospitalist practice in a small community hospital system

Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Access to infectious diseases physicians has been increasingly difficult, as many infectious diseases fellowship programs have unfilled positions. This has coincided with increasing numbers of internal medicine residents pursuing hospitalist medicine.
Michael S. Wang, Kristina Aleksoniene, Jason C. Tompkins, Richard W. Douce, John W. Froggatt 3rd, Mark S. Harrison   +5 more
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Voluntary Counselling, HIV Testing and Adjunctive Cotrimoxazole Reduces Mortality in Tuberculosis Patients in Thyolo, Malawi. [PDF]

, 2003
OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of voluntary counselling, HIV testing and adjunctive cotrimoxazole in reducing mortality in a cohort of tuberculosis (TB) patients registered under routine programme conditions in a rural district ...
Arendt, V, Chinji, C, Gomani, P, Hargreaves, N J, Harries, A D, Salaniponi, F M L, Spielmann M P, Zachariah, R   +7 more
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Epidemiological study of secondary bloodstream infections: The forgotten issue

Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2019
Objective: Secondary bacteraemia infections (SBI) are poorly studied. We analyse the epidemiology of nosocomial SBI, potential risk factors and mortality of affected patients. Methods: Prospective study of patients with bacteraemia from 2009 to 2014 in a
Laura Sante, Armando Aguirre-Jaime, Maria Antonia Miguel, María José Ramos, Yanet Pedroso, María Lecuona   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prosthetic joint infections [PDF]

, 2013
Objectives: To review the available literature on prosthetic joint infections and provide recommendations on management particularly the importance of identifying the causative organism and starting the most appropriate antimicrobial therapy.
Fsadni, Claudia, Fsadni, Peter
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Identifying which septic patients have increased mortality risk using severity scores:a cohort study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Early aggressive therapy can reduce the mortality associated with severe sepsis but this relies on prompt recognition, which is hindered by variation among published severity criteria. Our aim was to test the performance of different severity
Davey, Peter G, Evans, Josie Mm, Guthrie, Bruce, Marwick, Charis A, McLeod, Shaun R, Pringle, Jan Ec   +5 more
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Profound lymphopenia and bacteraemia

Internal Medicine Journal, 2006
AbstractBacteraemia often carries a poor prognosis despite prompt antibiotic therapy and is associated with late morbidity and mortality that is difficult to explain. Here, we describe perisistent B‐ and T‐ cell lymphopenia in a cohort of patients with Gram‐positive and Gram‐negative bacteraemia.
Hawkins, Carolyn, Collignon, Peter, Adams, D N, Bowden, Francis, Cook, Matthew   +4 more
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Renal screening sonography—A comparative study in a Portuguese basic emergency service

Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, Volume 72, Issue 1, Page 8-16, March 2025.
Renal sonography screening aids in clinical decision‐making for patients with suspected renal colic. This study intends to compare the accuracy and pertinence of sonographic findings obtained by a sonographer in a Basic Emergency Service (BES) with that of radiologists at Referral Hospital (RH) in Portugal. Renal sonography screening was able to detect
Sérgio Miravent, Carmen Jiménez, Narciso Barbancho, Manuel Duarte Lobo, Teresa Figueiredo, Carla Gomes, Ion Ratusneac, João Mário Gonçalves, Corina Hasnas, Rui de Almeida   +9 more
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Temporal trends of enterococcal and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium bacteraemia in the northern Dutch-German cross-border region: A 10-y multicentre analysis (2013–2022)

Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Objective: To analyse the trends in occurrence of enterococcal and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) bacteraemia in the northern Dutch-German cross-border region. Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted using positive
Cansu Cimen, Andreas Voss, Josef Hellkamp, Axel Hamprecht, Matthijs S. Berends   +4 more
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Infectious Diseases Clinician's Variation in the Management of Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia and Equipoise for Clinical Trials

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2019
Background: Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia is one of the leading causes of community-acquired blood-stream infection in the developed world; however, our understanding of management practices by treating clinicians is limited.Methods: The ...
Anita J. Campbell, Anita J. Campbell, Anita J. Campbell, Steven Y. C. Tong, Steven Y. C. Tong, Joshua S. Davis, Joshua S. Davis, Alasdair P. S. Munro, Christopher C. Blyth, Christopher C. Blyth, Christopher C. Blyth, Christopher C. Blyth, Asha C. Bowen, Asha C. Bowen, Asha C. Bowen, Asha C. Bowen   +15 more
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Probiotic consumption reduces alveolar bone loss and kidney damage in pregnant rats with experimental periodontitis

Journal of Periodontology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis HN019 (B. lactis HN019) is a probiotic bacterial strain with immunomodulatory properties. Its benefits have been observed in healthy and systemically compromised animals with periodontitis (PD). Our objective was to investigate the local and systemic effects of the systemic administration of B.
Átila V. V. Nobre, Pedro H. F. Silva, Marina C. G. Del‐Arco, Raquel F. Gerlach, Rene S. Oliezer, José E. Tanus‐Santos, Luciene C. Figueiredo, Janaina S. A. M. Evangelista, Flávia A. C. Furlaneto, Michel R. Messora, Sérgio Luiz Salvador   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source