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WU and KI Polyomaviruses in the Brains of HIV‐Positive Patients With and Without Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
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The polyomaviruses KI (KIPyV) and WU (WUPyV) were recently identified mainly in respiratory samples from children and immunosuppressed patients. Investigation of 54 autopsy brain tissue samples from 22 subjects demonstrated that WUPyV DNA and KIPyV DNA could be detected in 1 of 4 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)–positive individuals with progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) and in 3 of 10 HIV‐positive individuals without PML, but not in 8 HIV‐negative individuals. Viruses were localized in all regions of the central ...
Source: The Journal of Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article BRIEF REPORT Source Type: journals
Ghana: Mandatory HIV Tests Before Marriage Causes ResentmentEmail this article to a colleague.
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Participants at a day's national seminar on the HIV-AIDS disease have expressed resentment at the insistence on "mandatory test" by some churches before allowing their members to marry.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Footballers told to stop spitting over swine flu fearsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Footballers have been told to stop spitting on the pitch because it increases the risk of spreading swine flu.
Source: The Telegraph : Swine Flu A H1N1 - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: 1 HEALTH Spitting Source Type: news
GPs warn winter vomiting bug cases rising at same time as swine fluEmail this article to a colleague.
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GPs are urging patients with minor illnesses to stay away from surgeries as a combination of the winter vomiting bug and the second wave of swine flu threaten to swamp family doctors.
Source: The Telegraph : Swine Flu A H1N1 - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: norovirus winter vomiting bug swine flu vaccine rcgp Source Type: news
Update: Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)Email this article to a colleague.
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Recommendations and Guidelines: ACIP Presentation Slides: Special July 2009 Meeting
Source: CDC Swine Flu Updates - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: organizations
School Undercounts Raise Pandemic ConcernsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The commentary discusses the undercount of H1N1 infections in schools. A map of outbreaks is linked. (10/26/09 17:34)
Source: Recombinomics - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: info
Sarcoidosis: Epidemiology, Etiology, Pathogenesis, and GeneticsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sarcoidosis is a chronic systemic granulomatous disease of unknown etiology, most commonly affecting young adults. Hutchinson described the dermatological presentation of sarcoidosis in 1875. Boeck, for whom the disorder was later named, reported the histology of these lesions in 1899. Because the skin lesions resembled sarcoma but had benign histopathologic and clinical features, Boeck named the lesions “sarkoid.” Since then, several scientists have contributed to the current understanding of sarcoidosis as a systemic disease with protean clinical manifestations. The clinical course of sarcoidosis ranges from spontane...
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Angeline Lazarus Source Type: journals
Intrathoracic SarcoidosisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sarcoidosis is a multisystem granulomatous inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. Patients with dermatologic manifestations of sarcoidosis represented the initial cases described as “sarkoid” in the late 1800s; one of the classic presentations of sarcoidosis was described by Löfgren based on his descriptions in 1946. Although sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder, the intrathoracic manifestations are both the most common and often most clinically significant. Although plain radiography will demonstrate either pulmonary parenchymal involvement and/or mediastinal lymph node involvement in about 90% of patients with ...
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Gregory Fuhrer, Janet N. Myers Source Type: journals
Sarcoidosis: Extrathoracic ManifestationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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While sarcoidosis is well known to affect the lungs, the most common extrathoracic involvement affects the skin, eyes, and liver, and the most life-threatening organ involvement includes the cardiac and neurologic systems. There is increasing recognition of sarcoidosis involvement of heart and musculoskeletal system with the advances in imaging techniques, such as gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), perfusion scanning, or positron emission tomography. Sarcoidosis of the skin was first described in 1877 by Hutchinson, and in the subsequent decades, sarcoidosis has been recognized as a multisystem disease. ...
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jennifer Holmes, Angeline Lazarus Source Type: journals
Diagnosis of SarcoidosisEmail this article to a colleague.
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The “protean” manifestations of the granulomatous disease sarcoidosis have been commented upon since the formative descriptions by Hutchinson, Carl and Caesar Beock, Besnier and others beginning more than 100 years ago. The first world conference on sarcoidosis took place in 1958 at Brompton Hospital (). Despite early and subsequent concerted effort, however, the causative agent has not yet been discovered. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis, therefore, relies on the identification of characteristic clinical, radiologic, and pathologic findings as aids the diagnosis of other idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. Owing to the v...
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Scott Parrish, J.F. Turner Source Type: journals
Treatment of SarcoidosisEmail this article to a colleague.
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Sarcoidosis presents unique challenges regarding treatment decisions. Most patients will not require treatment because their disease is discovered incidentally. Others improve with or without therapy, due to a high rate of spontaneous remission. Most importantly, because the cause of sarcoidosis is unknown, no specific therapy exists. Instead we are left with medications that globally suppress the immune system, bringing the undesired consequences of immunosuppression along with other side effects. Despite its original description over 100 years ago by Hutchinson, and over 6700 references on “sarcoidosis treatment” in ...
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Christopher S. King, William Kelly Source Type: journals
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Over the past several years, there have been multiple media reports of celebrities who have been living with (and succumbing to) sarcoidosis. Formerly thought to be a mysterious inflammatory lung disease, sarcoidosis has now entered the public consciousness. At one time, sarcoidosis was believed to be a rare pulmonary granulomatous disease; it is now recognized to be of higher prevalence in the African American and European (particularly Scandinavian) communities. As such, public awareness of this multisystem disease process with a variety of extrapulmonary manifestations has increased.
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Jerrold B. Leikin Source Type: journals
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Sarcoidosis is a multisystem disorder of unknown cause(s) that commonly affects young and middle-age adults worldwide. Its common presentations include bilateral hilar adenopathy, pulmonary infiltration, and skin and ocular lesions. There is significant variability in its clinical features and outcome among the different ethnic groups. The clinical manifestations are protean and can present in an acute, subacute, or chronic form. The clinical course is also variable from spontaneous resolution to progressive disease despite treatment. The diagnosis of sarcoidosis requires compatible clinical and radiological features and o...
Source: Disease a Month - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Angeline Lazarus Source Type: journals
Genetic Marker Strongly Associated With SVR to Peginterferon/Ribavirin in Patients With Genotype 1 HCVEmail this article to a colleague.
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CCO Slideset - In this genomewide association study, a genetic polymorphism near IL28B, which encodes for interferon lambda-3, was found to strongly correlate with response to peginterferon/ribavirin in individuals infected with genotype 1 HCV.
Source: Clinical Care Options Hepatitis - HCV - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Zambia: Lusaka Declares War Against Malaria, CholeraEmail this article to a colleague.
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LUSAKA District Commissioner Christah Kalulu is confident and she has every reason to be. Hopefully this year the busy cosmopolitan city of Lusaka will have fewer cases of cholera and malaria, and suffer less disaster than it has during rainy seasons over the past decade.
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gambia: NSGA Organises HIV/Aids Sensitisation ForumEmail this article to a colleague.
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Nova Scotia-Gambia Association (NSGA) in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), yesterday began a four-day sensitisation forum on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), held at the Bahai National Centre in Kanifing.
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Botox as a Breast Lift?Email this article to a colleague.
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Title: Botox as a Breast Lift?Category: Health NewsCreated: 10/27/2009 10:02:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 10/27/2009 10:02:27 AM
Source: MedicineNet HIV General - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: consumer
T Cell Dynamics and the Response to HAART in a Cohort of HIV‐1–Infected Elite SuppressorsEmail this article to a colleague.
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In this study, we show that most elite suppressors do not experience significant changes in T cell counts over a 10‐year period. Interestingly, treatment of an elite suppressor with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) led to a marked decrease in immune activation.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article HIV/AIDS Source Type: journals
Book Review: HIV and the Brain: New Challenges in the Modern EraEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1625-1626, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: book review Source Type: journals
Book Review: Microbiology and AgingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1624-1625, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: book review Source Type: journals
Immunocompromised Hosts: Vaccination of Solid‐Organ Transplantation CandidatesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1550-1556, 15 November 2009.
Verifying immunization status and updating vaccinations are important steps in the evaluation of patients who are solid‐organ transplant candidates because the potential benefits of vaccination outweigh the risk of adverse events. Because patients with end‐organ disease, such as end‐stage renal disease and cirrhosis, have reduced immune responses to many vaccines, vaccination should be performed as early as possible during the course of these diseases. Furthermore, it is particularly important for live vaccines to be updated du...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOSTS Source Type: journals
Vaccines: Bordetella pertussis and Pertussis VaccinesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1565-1569, 15 November 2009.
Bordetella pertussis is a human‐specific pathogen that causes whooping cough. The use of pertussis whole‐cell vaccines in infants and toddlers led to decreased circulation of the bacterium in the child population and a marked decrease in the incidence of the disease. However, vaccine does not result in life‐long immunity; indeed, the circulation of the bacterium has not been controlled in the adult population. Universal adult booster immunization is now possible using pertussis acellular vaccines, which target—and are thus li...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article VACCINES Source Type: journals
Clinical Practice: Topical Antimicrobial Therapy for Treating Chronic WoundsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1541-1549, 15 November 2009.
Various agents have been applied topically to treat infected wounds for millennia, but their proper role remains unclear. Topical therapy affords many potential advantages but also has disadvantages. Opinions differ on which clinical signs define wound infection and on whether quantitative microbiological studies are useful. Clinically infected wounds usually require systemic antibiotic therapy, whereas clinically uninfected wounds that are healing as expected do not require antimicrobials. There is controversy over how to treat poor...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CLINICAL PRACTICE Source Type: journals
Fever, Shock, and Pancytopenia in a Patient Treated with AlemtuzumabEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1616-1617, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article ANSWER TO THE PHOTO QUIZ Source Type: journals
Fever, Shock, and Pancytopenia in a Patient Treated with Alemtuzumab: (Answer on pages 1616–7)Email this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1540, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article PHOTO QUIZ Source Type: journals
In the LiteratureEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page iii-iv, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article 15 November Source Type: journals
Editorial Commentary: When Guidelines Don’t Guide the PhysicianEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1530-1531, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article EDITORIAL COMMENTARY Source Type: journals
Editorial Commentary: Can Serum Mannose‐Binding Lectin Levels Aid with the Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis?Email this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1492-1495, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article EDITORIAL COMMENTARY Source Type: journals
Erratum: Rahal (Clin Infect Dis 2009;49(Suppl 1):S4–10Email this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1627, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article Source Type: journals
15 November NewsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page i-ii, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article 15 November Source Type: journals
Erratum: Guevara et al (Clin Infect Dis 2009;49:1507–15Email this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1628, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article Source Type: journals
Editorial Commentary: Paying the Price for Late Starts and Early Stops: Racial and Sex Disparities in HIV‐Related MortalityEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1579-1581, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article EDITORIAL COMMENTARY Source Type: journals
Surfing The Web: Google Trends: A Web‐Based Tool for Real‐Time Surveillance of Disease OutbreaksEmail this article to a colleague.
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We describe the Google Trends tool, explain how the data are processed, present examples, and discuss its strengths and limitations. Google Trends shows great promise as a timely, robust, and sensitive surveillance system. It is best used for surveillance of epidemics and diseases with high prevalences and is currently better suited to track disease activity in developed countries, because to be most effective, it requires large populations of Web search users. Spikes in search volume are currently hard to interpret but have the benefit of increasing vigilance. Google should work with public health care practitioners to de...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article SURFING THE WEB Source Type: journals
Use of Post‐Natal Antiretroviral Prophylaxis for Prevention of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission of HIV Is Increasing in ItalyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1618-1619, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: journals
Subclinical Infection with the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) VirusEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1622-1623, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: journals
Treatment and CD4+ T Cell Count Recovery among Antiretroviral Therapy–Naive Patients with HIV/AIDSEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1619-1620, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: journals
Why We Need Statistical InferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1620-1621, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: journals
Ribavirin in Crimean‐Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Primum Non NocereEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1621-1622, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article CORRESPONDENCE Source Type: journals
Editorial Commentary: The Art of Managing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection: A Balancing ActEmail this article to a colleague.
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, Volume 49, Issue 10, Page 1602-1604, 15 November 2009.
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article EDITORIAL COMMENTARY Source Type: journals
Age‐Related Susceptibility to Infection with Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli among Infants from Periurban Areas in Lima, PeruEmail this article to a colleague.
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Background. Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli strains are being recognized as important pediatric enteropathogens worldwide. However, it is unclear whether there are differences in age‐related susceptibility to specific strains, especially among infants. Methods. We conducted a passive surveillance cohort study of diarrhea that involved 1034 children aged 2–12 months in Lima, Peru. Control stool samples were collected from randomly selected children without diarrhea. All samples were analyzed for common enteric pathogens and for diarrh...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article MAJOR ARTICLE Source Type: journals
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing: A Review of General Principles and Contemporary PracticesEmail this article to a colleague.
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An important task of the clinical microbiology laboratory is the performance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of significant bacterial isolates. The goals of testing are to detect possible drug resistance in common pathogens and to assure susceptibility to drugs of choice for particular infections. The most widely used testing methods include broth microdilution or rapid automated instrument methods that use commercially marketed materials and devices. Manual methods that provide flexibility and possible cost savings include the disk d...
Source: Clinical Infectious Diseases Latest Issue - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Tags: article MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY Source Type: journals
Prospective comparison of Fibroscan, King's score and liver biopsy for the assessment of cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis C infectionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Summary. Historically, liver biopsy (LB) was the sole method to evaluate the severity of hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection. However, LB is expensive and associated with a risk of severe complications. Therefore, noninvasive tests have been developed to assess the severity of liver fibrosis. The accuracy of Fibroscan (FS) and King's score (KS) was evaluated individually and in combination using liver histology as the reference standard. One hundred and eighty-seven patients were identified who had undergone a biopsy with a diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) mono-infection (HCV RNA-pos...
Source: Journal of Viral Hepatitis - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: T. J. S. Cross, V. Calvaruso, S. Maimone, I. Carey, T. P. Chang, M. Pleguezuelo, P. Manousou, A. Quaglia, F. Grillo, A. P. Dhillon, G. M. Dusheiko, A. K. Burroughs, P. M. Harrison Source Type: journals
Hepatitis B viral load and risk for liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in The Gambia, West AfricaEmail this article to a colleague.
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In conclusion, we find that high HBV-DNA levels are strongly associated with the serious sequelae of HBV infection, independent of HBeAg status. While risk for cirrhosis and for HCC notably increases at HBV-DNA levels [ge]10 000 copies/mL, low-level viremia was also associated with significant risk for HCC.
Source: Journal of Viral Hepatitis - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: M. E. Mendy, T. Welzel, O. A. Lesi, P. Hainaut, A. J. Hall, M. H. Kuniholm, S. McConkey, J. J. Goedert, S. Kaye, S. Rowland-Jones, H. Whittle, G. D. Kirk Source Type: journals
Early Peginterferon-Induced HBeAg Loss Associated With Higher Probability of HBsAg Loss and Sustained Undetectable HBV DNAEmail this article to a colleague.
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CCO Slideset - More than one third of patients with HBeAg loss within the first 32 weeks of therapy with peginterferon alfa-2b alone or in combination with lamivudine were negative for HBsAg at long-term follow-up 3 years later.
Source: Clinical Care Options Hepatitis - HBV - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Increase in ALT to ≥ 2 Times ULN During Follow-up Correlates With Increasing Morbidity and Mortality Among HBeAg-Negative, HBsAg-Positive IndividualsEmail this article to a colleague.
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CCO Slideset - In this long-term follow-up study, higher maximal ALT level during follow-up of a mean of 13 years was associated with increased risk of development of cirrhosis and liver-related mortality among HBeAg-negative, HBsAg-positive individuals.
Source: Clinical Care Options Hepatitis - HBV - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Weight-Related Factors Associated With Risk for Liver Disease Progression According to Analysis of HALT-C DataEmail this article to a colleague.
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CCO Slideset - In this analysis of the HALT-C study, insulin resistance, histologic features of fatty liver disease, and weight changes were found to be associated with increased rates of liver disease progression in patients with chronic hepatitis C.
Source: Clinical Care Options Hepatitis - HCV - October 27, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
