Infectious Diseases
- Preventing herpes zoster through vaccination: New developments
Because protection wanes by 10 years, a booster dose may be necessary but is not yet recommended.
- Fungal organisms in the brain (February 2017)
Readers comment on fungal organisms in the brain (February 2017).
- Black hairy tongue cured concurrently with respiratory infection
Proposed causes include medications, hyposalivation, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and infection.
- Appropriate diagnosis of tickborne infections
Fear of undertreatment of early infection can morph into unwarranted treatment of nonexistent chronic infection.
- Secondary syphilis
A 39-year-old man presents with generalized weakness, headache, nausea, and migratory arthralgia.
- Syphilis 100 years later: Another lost opportunity?
A century of progress and then backward steps on syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases.
- Tickborne diseases other than Lyme in the United States
Consider them in patients with known or potential tick exposure and fever or vague constitutional symptoms.
- Necrotizing pancreatitis: Diagnose, treat, consult
Patients may need intensive care, nutritional support, antibiotics, and radiologic, endoscopic, or surgical interventions.
- Postexposure management of infectious diseases
People who have been exposed to an infectious disease should be evaluated promptly and systematically.