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Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases News

Fake Drugs Threaten Gains Made in War on Malaria Low-quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past decade.
Reuters Health Information, May 23, 2012
Insecticide Resistance Threatens Malaria Fight Malaria-carrying mosquitoes in Africa and India are becoming resistant to insecticides, putting millions of lives at greater risk and threatening eradication efforts.
Reuters Health Information, May 16, 2012

Interferon-Gamma Release Assays Better for TB Testing
Reuters Health Information, May 11, 2012
Malaria Infections Surge in Congo: Aid Agency
Reuters Health Information, April 25, 2012
Mystery Disease Resurfaces in Vietnam
Medscape Medical News, April 23, 2012
Haiti Launches Anti-Cholera Vaccination Campaign
Reuters Health Information, April 17, 2012

Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases Perspectives

New Regimen Makes Treating Latent TB Infection Easier Patient selection is important with this simple yet effective approach to the treatment of TB infection.
CDC Expert Commentary, May 22, 2012
A Young Woman With a Tell-Tale Fever A young woman presents with headache, photophobia, and a recurring fever.
Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 9, 2012

Isoniazid-Rifapentine for LTBI: CDC Guidance
Faculty of 1000, March 16, 2012
Testing for Lyme Disease: Follow the Steps
CDC Expert Commentary, March 5, 2012
The Curious Case of the Patient Who Was Killed by a Corpse
Medscape General Surgery, January 5, 2012
A Traveler With Jaundice and Fever
Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 2, 2011

Journals

Clindamycin Plus Quinine for Treating Falciparum Malaria
Malaria Journal, May 29, 2012
Malaria Disease Manifestations and Asymptomatic Malaria
Malaria Journal, May 22, 2012
How Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Goes to Sleep
Future Microbiology, May 7, 2012
Tuberculosis Outbreak Associated With a Homeless Shelter
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, April 25, 2012
Trends in Tuberculosis -- United States, 2011
Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, April 23, 2012

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