Search results for "Infectious Diseases"
Infectious diseases and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad match
Infectious diseases and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad match. ... It's aDaniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and hospital epidemiology in Iowa City, Iowa, splitting time between seeing patients
November 2021
C. difficile difficult for outpatient physicians and patients, too
It should come as little surprise that some of the most common questions asked of infectious diseases specialist Carlos Isada, MD, deal with Clostridium difficile. ... Current recommendations by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society
October 2013
Coronavirus
Judith S. Currier, MD, MSc, professor of medicine and division chief of infectious diseases at UCLA Department of Medicine, and director of the UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Center. ... Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, FACP, director of the
November 2021
Our slow motion pandemic
Daniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and hospital epidemiology in Iowa City, Iowa, splitting time between seeing patients with infectious diseases, diagnosing infections in the microbiology laboratory,
November 2021
We need an Ebola test with perfect negative predictive value at time zero
But this problem plagues infectious diseases diagnostics generally. As this recent Lancet ID article points out, the lack of early and sensitive diagnostic testing is one reason why so many patients ... Daniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious
November 2021
Turning up the heat
Turning up the heat. Today seems like a good day to highlight the association of climate and infectious diseases, not only vector-borne infections like malaria, Zika, and dengue fever that ... The other, in Open Forum Infectious Diseases, describes a
November 2021
Busting COVID-19 vaccination myths
del Rio, who is also a distinguished professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Emory. ... Infectious diseases physician Jasmine R. Marcelin, MD, FACP, created a compilation of interviews and Q&As about COVID-19 and the vaccines on
November 2021
For every rule, an exception
in seminal fluid for up to 101 days, and infectious virus up to 82 days, and in 1968 the sexual transmission of Marburg virus was reported 13 weeks into convalescence). ... Daniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious diseases, clinical microbiology,
November 2021
Still beating that dead horse, contact precautions edition
Daniel J. Diekema, MD, FACP, practices infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, and hospital epidemiology in Iowa City, Iowa, splitting time between seeing patients with infectious diseases, diagnosing infections in the microbiology laboratory,
November 2021
Managing superbugs in your community
Boucher, MD, a professor of medicine in the division of geographic medicine and infectious diseases at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. ... About a third of the world's population is infected with TB, one of the deadliest infectious diseases, said Dr.
May 2017