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Screening for Q Fever during Other Bacterial Endocarditis in Endemic Areas: Our Experience with Three PatientsINFECTIVE endocarditisQ feverHEART valve diseasesTHERAPEUTICSACUTE diseasesENDOCARDITISEndocarditis is not a usual manifestation of acute Q fever. There is an ongoing debate about the need to ...
1 Hepatitis C virus infection is associated with more deaths than the top 60 other reportable infectious diseases combined, including HIV.2 The most important risk factor for HCV infection is past or current injection drug use.1 In the US, an estimated 4.1 million persons have past or current...
Using a team of specialists from different medical departments to screen and treat patients should be extended to other rare diseases, experts said. "Such a team of doctors from different disease areas would be significant in the diagnosis of Fabry and other rare diseases caused by the deficiency...
Population screening for disease-causing genetic variants can identify individuals at risk for preventable cancers, heart disease, and other diseases who otherwise would not come to clinical attention. For example, our group and others have found that screening unselected cohorts for pathogenic/likely pa...
At least 18 genetic diseases are found predominantly in the AJ population, and another 10 are found in both the AJ population and other Jewish and non-Jewish populations.1 TSD has become the model system for genetic disease screening in the AJ population. Approximately 1:30 AJ indi- viduals...
BackgroundNational newborn screening programmes based on tandem-mass spectrometry (MS/MS) and other newborn screening (NBS) technologies show a substantial variation in number and types of disorders included in the screening panel. Once established, these methods offer the opportunity to extend newbor...
"We need to optimize the uptake and use of prevention and screening for these five cancers so that all Americans can benefit, especially underserved populations, as well as develop novel prevention and screening strategies to avert deaths due to other, very lethal ...
16 Low event rates, study size, and reporting inconsistencies limited the ability to draw conclusions for other outcomes in this study (eTable 3 in the Supplement). Nonpregnant Adult Populations No studies were identified that addressed the benefits of screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria in the ...
1 For example, wealth inequities may result in barriers to receiving mental health services, such as treatment costs and lack of insurance, which tend to have a greater impact on Black persons and other racial and ethnic groups than on White persons.41 Black and Hispanic/Latino primary care ...