392A disease. Of the 141 patients, 37 (26%) presented with disease progression at the first detection (median level 18%); the other 104 (74%) presented with MRD (median level 0.3%), 86 of them (83%) were detected within the first 90 days post-SCT (early post-SCT MRD). A total...
Blocking a key molecule of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, may help slow the progression of the pneumonic form of the disease and allow antibiotics time to work, according to new research conducted at Washington University School of Medicine, in St Louis, Mo (Lathem WW et ...
These r e s u l t s suggest t h a t maternal vaccination f o r t h e p r e v e n t i o n o f 111-GBS disease i n neonates i s f e a s i b l e . 1058 THE BACTERIOLOGY OF PERITONITIS I N CHILDREN WITH APPENDICITIS. Stephen C. Aronoff, Margaret M. Ol:sen, ...
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA Nathanial S. Nolan Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, Barnes Jewish Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA M...
Rebecca G. Same MD-Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA Jason G. Newland MD, MEd-Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis...
In this cohort of individuals with COVID-19 who were followed up for as long as 9 months after illness, approximately 30% reported persistent symptoms. A unique aspect of our cohort is the high proportion of outpatients with mild disease. Persistent symptoms were reported by one-third of outpa...
Since the 1980s, surgical pathologists in general and infectious disease pathologists in particular have dealt with an increasing number of surgical specimens from patients in whom one or multiple infectious agents may be responsible for disease.1 In this context, pathologists have played an important...
Biocontainment means containing a highly contagious disease in a certain space. Because we only have 10 beds in our unit, we knew there’d soon be an overflow of COVID patients. We were watching what was going on in other countries. We saw what was happening inNew YorkandW...
From the Plague of Athens, the earliest pandemic recorded in history, to COVID-19, infectious disease outbreaks have relentlessly impacted societies, cultures, and economies. For a long time, it has been assumed that the spread of pathogens in a population is homogeneous, with each infected host...
School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University of Medicine, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research); NHC Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biol...