LYME MENINGITIS IN CHILDREN WITH ASEPTIC MENINGITIS

A descriptive study enrolled children 2-18 years of age presenting to a pediatric emergency department in Rhode Island during the months of April through December of 2006-2009.
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FEVER IN TRAVELERS AFTER VISITING MALARIA-ENDEMIC AREAS

Authors from the helsinki university central hospital, a tertiary hospital in Finland, retrospectively reviewed patient records from 2005 to 2009 to define the causes of fever in returned travelers and to evaluate the diagnostic approach.   From Infectious Disease Alert [continue]











HCW FLU SHOT RATES HIT A RECORD HIGH

More health care workers than ever are receiving the influenza vaccine. A national survey shows that by mid-November, about 78% of them had been vaccinated — a rate that is almost double the rate of about five years ago.
 From Hospital Infection Control [continue]

 


 
EDITOR
Frank Bia, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
and Laboratory Medicine, Co-Director, Tropical Medicine and International Travelers' Clinic, Yale University School of Medicine

 

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