In children and adults with suspected or probable acute bacterial meningitis, intravenous chloramphenicol with benzylpenicillin, ampicillin or amoxicillin should only be considered for empiric treatment when ceftriaxone or cefotaxime are not immediately a...
National disease registries were used to identify and contact a sizeable proportion of people living in the UK who are immunocompromised and considered to be most at risk of severe COVID-19: recipients of solid organ transplants, people with rare autoimmune rheumatic diseases, and people with lymp...
particular pre-term infants, low-birth-weight (<2.5 kg) infants or immunocompromised infants. However, infants who are compromised for any other reason may also be at greater risk of E. sakazakii infection. Infants of HIV-positive ...
Adenovirus currently does not fully explain the severity of the clinical picture. There have been case reports of hepatitis in immunocompromised children with adenovirus infection, however, it is unusual to be a cause of severe hepatitis in otherwise healthy children. Factors such as increased suscepti...
Such outbreaks afflict those who refuse vaccines for themselves, but also their children, those who are immunocompromised, too young or too sick to be vaccinated, or those who did not develop immunity from vaccines [11]. Vaccine-preventable diseases carry economic as well as social costs for ...
of a smallpox vaccine for the entire population, including immunocompromised individuals who are not recommended vaccination with traditional replicating smallpox vaccines, MVA-BN has been indicated for use in the general adult population in individuals considered at risk for smallpox or ...
Is having an autoimmune disease the same as immunocompromised? People with autoimmune diseasearen't typically considered immunocompromised, unless they take certain medications that slow down their immune system. “The connotation for immunocompromised is that the immune function is reduced so you are mor...
Some 21 percent live in a county considered to have a "medium" community level, where the CDC recommends that immunocompromised people and those at high risk for severe disease consider taking extra precautions against COVID-19. People wearing face masks get off a train at Union Station in Chi...
Healthy adults are considered properly immunised if they have received the following vaccines37, 40: Vaccination of patients with multiple sclerosis Both inactivated and live-attenuated vaccines are safe biological products and can be administered to patients with MS. These patients, and especially those...
Nonetheless, with the inclusion of boys in school-based HPV vaccination programs in 2016 and people who are immunocompromised or are living with HIV under the age of 46 years in the publicly-funded HPV vaccination program in 2022 in Quebec, Canada [4], these estimates may no longer reflect ...