The authors from Paris, France, described 60 adult travelers diagnosed with skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTI) seen between January 1, 2006, and August 30, 2007.
From Travel Medicine Advisor [continue]
DISTINGUISHING LYME FROM SEPTIC ARTHRITIS IN CHILDREN
A retrospective cross-sectional review was conducted in children ≥ 18 years of age presenting with acute monoarticular arthritis who underwent arthrocentesis at Boston Children's Hospital emergency department between December 2000 and September 2006.
From Infectious Disease Alert [continue]
Trying to keep the genie in the bottle, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued new guidelines to halt the emergence of a highly drug-resistant, gram-negative pathogen that can cause a variety of infections with a strikingly high mortality rate.
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