Isolate patients with possible tuberculosis (TB) infection in a private room with negative pressure (air exhausted to outside or through a high-efficiency particulate air filter). Medical staff must wear high-efficiency disposable masks sufficient to filter the tubercle bacillus. Continue isolation unti...
Professor Tabernero added: "The great thing about MptpB is that there's nothing similar in humans - so our compound which blocks it is not toxic to the human cells. TB is an amazingly difficult disease to treat so we feel this is a significant breakthrough." She said the next stage of...
The way of treatment depends on the severity of the infection, its localization, depth of the skin involved, stage of infection, the causative pathogen, contagiousness, age of the patient, and associated comorbidities. In the great majority of infections, treatment is topical. Pityriasis versicolor...
Eaton JW, Hallett TB (2014) Why the proportion of transmission during early-stage HIV infection does not predict the long-term impact of treatment on HIV incidence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111: 16202-7....
The introduction of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) with high cure rates, shorter treatment durations, fewer side-effects as compared to previous medicines, revolutionized the treatment of HCV infection, and provide an unprecedented opportunity for widespread scale-up and elimination [3, 4]. In ...
Individuals will be eligible to participate in this research if they (1) are HIV-positive; (2) have taken ART for at least three months; (3) are not currently receiving treatment for TB (or latent TB infection); (4) are 18 years or older; (5) are classified as “harmful/hazardous ...
This stage usually refers to the stage of patients without clinical manifestation, negative laboratory test but positive throat swab for 2019-nCoV within 1–2 weeks after being exposed to a virus-contaminated environment (history of contact with a patient or patient-related family members, unit,...
He was recently moved from jail to a hospital in the city of Shenyang to be treated for late-stage liver cancer. The hospital said in a short statement that Liu was being "actively rescued" and was suffering from septic shock, an infection in his abdominal cavity and was on...
Most of the ERA patients tested positive for HLA-B27. Throughout the follow-up period, these patients demonstrated greater disease activity, greater use of corticosteroids and anti-TNF, and longer duration of methotrexate to control the disease. ...
2 Unfortunately, the incidence of infection in the post-transplant period seems to be increasing; total infection-related hospital discharge diagnoses have increased each year since 1999.3 For the clinician, the challenge lies in both the prevention of and the early diagnosis and treatment of ...