Article List - XII. Infectious Diseases

XII. Infectious Diseases

A1) Antibiotics

Intravenous-to-oral antibiotic switch therapy
---Postgraduate Medicine---April 1997

A2) Bone and Joint Infection

A Practical Guide to the Diagnosis and Management of Bone and Joint Infections
---Drugs---Aug. 1997

B) Endocarditis

Prevention of bacterial endocarditis
---JAMA---June 11, 1997

New criteria for diagnosis of infective endocarditis: utilization of specific echocardiographic findings.
---The American Journal of Medicine---Mar. 1994

Improvement in the diagnosis of abscesses assoc. w/ endocarditis by transesophageal echocardiography
--- The New England Journal of Medicine---mar. 21, 1991

C) Fungal Infection

Coccidioidomycosis
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Apr. 20, 1995

Opportunistic fungal infections: filamentous fungi and cryptococcosis
---Geriatrics---Oct. 1997

Fungal meningitis
---Infectious Disease Clinics of North America--- Dec. 1990

D) General

Infectious rates of central venous pressure catheters: comparison between newly placed catheters and those that have been changed.
---Mayo Clin Proc---Sept. 1996

Occupationally acquired infections in health care workers (Part 1)
---Annals of Internal Medicine--Nov. 15, 1996

Management constraints in infection control
---Infection and Control in Critical Care---Dec. 1995

Pathogenesis of Pneumococcal infection
--- The New England Journal of Medicine---May 11, 1995

Management constraints in infection control
---Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America---Dec. 1995

E) Herpes Zoster Virus

Famciclovir for the treatment of acute herpes zoster: Effects on acute disease and postherpetic neuralgia.
---Annals of Internal Medicine---July 15, 1995

Postherpetic neuralgia: pathogenesis, treatment and prevention
---The New England Journal of Medicine---July 4, 1996

F) HIV

Public Health Service guidelines for the Management of Health-Care Worker Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis
---MMWR---May 15, 1998

Treatment of cytomegalovirus retinitis in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
---The New England Journal of Medicine---July 10, 1997

Varicella-Zoster virus infection of the central nervous system in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
---Oxford Univerity ---1994

Gancoclovir
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Sept. 5, 1996

Current concepts: ocular manifestations of HIV infection
---The New England Journal of Medicine---July 23, 1998

Practical issues regarding the use of antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection
---West J Med---1998

1997 USPH/IDSA Guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with HIV: Part I ( Prevention of exposure)
---American Family Physician---Sept. 1, 1997

1997 USPH/IDSA Guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with HIV: Part 2 (prevention of first episode of disease)
---American Family Physician---Sept. 15, 1997

1997 USPH/IDSA Guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with HIV: Part 3 ( Prevention of Disease recurrence)
---American Family Physician---Oct. 1, 1997

Human Immunodeficiency virus type I protease inhibitors
---Arch Intern Med---May 12, 1997

Antoretroviral therapy for HIV infection in 1997 HIV-1 Protease Inhibitor
---JAMA---Jan. 8, 1997

HIV-1 protease inhibitors
---JAMA---Jan. 8,1997

Renal Complications in HIV Disease
---Medical Clinics of North America---Nov. 1996

Oral manifestations of HIV infection
---Annals of Internal Medicine---Sept. 15, 1996

New Drugs for HIV infection
---The Medical Letter---April 12, 1996

USPHS/IDSA guidelines for the revention of opportunistic infection in persons infected w/ HIV
---Annals of Internal Medicine---Feb. 1,1996

Mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Aug. 3, 1995

A comparison of immediate with deferred zidovudine therapy for asymptomatic HIV-infected adults with CDR cell counts of 500 or more/cubic Millimeter
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Aug. 17, 1995

Neurologic Manifestations of HIV infection
---Annals of Internal Medicine---Nov. 15, 1994

Management of adverse reactions to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole in human immunodeficiency virus-infected adults
---Arch Intern Med---Nov. 14, 1994

Preventative health care for adults with HIV infection
---JAMA---March 3, 1993

G) Immunizations

Vaccination against Lyme disease with recombinant Borrelia burgdorferi
---The New England Journal of Medicine---July 23, 1998

A vaccine consisting of recombinant Borrelia burgdorferi outer-surface protein A to prevent Lyme disease
---The New England Journal of Medicine---July 23, 1998

Adult immunizations (varicella infection)
---Annals of Internal Medicine---Jan. 1, 1996

H) Malaria

Malaria chemoprophylaxis for the traveler (Traveler's disease)
--- The New England Journal of Medicine---July 1, 1993

Treatment of malaria
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Sept. 12, 1996

I) Meningitis

Treatment of bacterial meningitis
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Mar. 6, 1997

Validation of a clinical prediction rule for the differential diagnosis of acute meningitis
---J Gen Intern Med---1994

Approach to Diagnosis of Meningitis
---Infectious Disease Clinics of North America---Dec. 1990

J) Osteomyelitis

Osteomyelitis
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Apr. 3, 1997

K) Parasites

Antiparasitic drugs
---The New England Journal of Medicine---May 2, 1996

Understanding Intestinal spore-forming protozoa: cryptosporidia, microsporidia, isospora, and cyclospora.
---Annals of Internal Medicine---Feb. 15, 1996

K2) Pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia in adults: Guidelines for management
---clinics of Infectious Diseases---1998

Pneumonia Due to Staphylococcus Aureus Infection
---Clinics in Chest Medicine---March 1995

L) Soft Tissue Infection

Streptococcal infections of skin and soft tissues
---The New England Journal of Medicine---Jan. 25, 1996

M) STDs

CDC releases the 1998 guideline for the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases
---American Family Physician---April 15, 1998

Infectious diseases: sexually transmitted diseases
---Prepared by Edith Flores---Aug. 3, 1996

N) Syphilis

Acquired Syphilis in adults
---The New England Journal of Medicine---April 16, 1992

Syphilis tests in diagnostic and Therapeutic decision making
---Annals of Internal Medicine--- March 1986

O) Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis
---Prepared by Neil Parker---Jan. 2,1998

Treatment of tuberculosis and tuberculosis infection on adults and children
---Am J Respir Crit Care Med---1994

Tuberculous Meningitis
---Infectious Disease Clinics of North America---Dec. 1990

P) UTI

Management if urinary tract infections in adults
--- The New England Journal of Medicine---Oct. 28, 1993