Infectious Diseases

  • Basics of study design: Practical considerations
    Robert L. Chatburn, MHHS, RRT-NPS, FAARC
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9 suppl 2) e10-e19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s2.03
  • The architecture of clinical research
    James K. Stoller, MD, MS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9 suppl 2) e2-e9; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s2.02
  • Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests
    Amy Nowacki, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9 suppl 2) e20-e25; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s2.04
  • Ring-enhancing cerebral lesions
    Aram Barbaryan, MD, Jignesh Modi, MD, Wajih Raqeem, MD, Michael I. Choi, MD, Alan Frigy, MD and Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 104-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16037

    The patient has poorly controlled HIV, seizures, and brain lesions. Is Histoplasma or Toxoplasma the cause of the lesions?

  • Challenges and advances in cardiovascular disease
    Maan A. Fares, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 3) 11; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s3.01
  • A rose by any other name is still a rose—but why a rose?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 11-12; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.01017

    Christopher Columbus returned from the New World with a chronic illness, now believed to have been reactive arthritis.

  • When should brain imaging precede lumbar puncture in cases of suspected bacterial meningitis?
    Aibek E. Mirrakhimov, MD, Adam Gray, MD and Taha Ayach, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 111-113; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16028

    Few patients need it. Empiric antibiotic and corticosteroid therapy must not be delayed.

  • Man’s best friend, fatal in the end
    Evelyn Ling, MD, Stacey Howell, MD, Mai Vang, BS and Paul Aronowitz, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 146-150; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16061

    A dog bite in a patient without a spleen can have serious consequences.

  • Disseminated molluscum contagiosum lesions in an HIV patient
    Telma Azevedo, MD, Alexandre Catarino, MD, Lurdes Ferreira, MD, Fernando Borges, MD and Kamal Mansinho, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 186-187; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16070

    The patient was diagnosed with HIV-related encephalopathy and disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

  • Worsening migraine due to neurocysticercosis
    Emily J. Elliott, DO, LT MC USN and Edwin J. Landaker, MD, CDR MC USN
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 196-198; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16003

    When a woman with a history of migraine had new symptoms, MRI revealed a tapeworm scolex in her brain.

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