Lyme Disease and the Expanded Spectrum of Blacklegged Tick-Borne Infections Edited byRobert P. Smith MD, MPH-Division of Infectious Diseases, Maine Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, South Portland, ME 04106, USA Last update September 2022 ...
Maine Medical Center Portland, ME Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA (Co-chair) CDR USPHS Associate Director for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Programs Medical Director, Get Smart for Healthcare Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Topic: education, medical, continuing Issue Section: supplem...
35 As the US population ages, infectious diseases among elderly persons will put strains on the medical system. In 2011, the Emerging Infections Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) found that individuals aged 65 years or older were almost 9 times more likely than their ...
Lyme disease was recognized in 1976 because of close clustering of cases in Lyme, Connecticut, and is now the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the US. It has been reported in 49 states, but > 90% of cases occur from Maine to Virginia and in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan...
[236,237]. Currently PCR-based assays for CMV have replaced pp65 antigenemia assay in most centers. Green et al. reported that transition of preemptive therapy strategy from antigenemia to PCR-based monitoring and host risk factors successfully prevented CMV disease without increasing the proportion ...
(eg, via intravenous drug use, work in a health care setting, receipt of dialysis, and insulin injection to treat diabetes), travel to countries with a high prevalence of hepatitis B virus, incarceration, and some chronic medical conditions (eg, chronic liver disease, hepatitis C virus ...
To do so, we annotated alleles with their impact on human health based on their polymorphisms and whether they contain at least one known disease-associated variant (based on a literature search with keyword “IG gene name + disease/vaccine”). Here, we report four examples of the disease ...
Notes for a presentation to the Leadership Forum, University of Minnesota Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy, Minneapolis MN, October 5, 2016(Links to video and audio recordings of the presentation itself are on this site.)
(Pennsylvania Department of Health); Center for Acute Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Rhode Island Department of Health; Daniel Drociuk (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control); Vinita Leedom, MPH, CIC (South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control); Jan Bollock...
These analyses were based on publically available, deidentified data, and therefore were not subject to institutional review board requirements as determined in consultation with the human subjects advisor for the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease. All visits during 2010-2011 ...