Going forward, the knowledge gained over the past decade will undoubtedly continue to inform future responses and will serve to optimize the education and care given to pregnant women in the face of current and future emerging infectious disease outbreaks. 展开 ...
Influenza—caused by the virus of the same name—is a highly contagious respiratory disease spread worldwide that exhibits high rates of morbidity and mortality. Among the four types of influenza viruses, A and B are responsible for the greatest number of seasonal infectious, producing around 5 m...
optic neuritis [25], uveitis [26] and orbital cellulitis [27], infectious disease would feature more prominently as a cause of the global visual burden. Progress has been achieved across multiple domains
Wilkinson K, Khoury JEI (2012) Microglial scavenger receptors and their roles in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. Int J Alzheimers Dis 489456:1 Google Scholar Graversen JH, Svendsen P, Dagnæs-Hansen F, Dal J, Anton G, Etzerodt A, Petersen MD, Christensen PA, Møller HJ, ...
Image courtesy of the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Latent period Latent syphilis can be early (< 1 year after infection) or late (≥ 1 year after infection). Symptoms and signs are absent, but antibodies, detected by serologic tests for syphil...
Cecile S. Rose MD, MPH, in Clinics in Chest Medicine, 2012 Infectious Agents Respiratory pathogens have been a major source of respiratory disease-related morbidity and mortality in the US military since its inception.22 During the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, 90% of casualties occurred owing to...
Tyler, MD Author Affiliations Article Information Arch Neurol. 2009;66(9):1065-1074. doi:10.1001/archneurol.2009.189 Abstract The first part of this review ended with a discussion of new niches for known viruses as illustrated by viral central nervous system (CNS) disease associated with organ...
“We’ve got a population of people with waning immunity, which increases our susceptibility to a wave,”said Thomas Russo, chief of infectious disease at theJacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciencesat theUniversity of Buffalo. Otto Yang, associate chief of infectious diseases at theUnivers...
1 A pathogen is any disease-producing organism; thus a commensal organism has the potential to be pathogenic. Colonization is infection without disease. Skin, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and urogenital colonization occurs early in life and persists unless disrupted. SKIN FLORA The combination of ...
Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) [1,2] is one of the major OM pathogens and is also a caus- ing agent for sinusitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) [3]. In the past three decades, there has been a dramatic worldwide increase in antibiotic resist- ance in ...