Current Issue June 2012, Vol. 16, No. 6

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Highly effective and inexpensive parasitological technique for diagnosis of intestinal parasites in developing countries: spontaneous sedimentation technique in tube
June 2012 (Vol. 16 | No. 6 | Pages e414-e416)
Raúl Tello, Angélica Terashima, Luis A. Marcos, Jorge Machicado, Marco Canales, Eduardo Gotuzzo
Comparison of attitudes about polio, polio immunization, and barriers to polio eradication between primary health center physicians and private pediatricians in India
June 2012 (Vol. 16 | No. 6 | Pages e417-e423)
Naveen Thacker, Panna Choudhury, Lisa M. Gargano, Paul S. Weiss, Karen Pazol, Sunil Bahl, Hamid S. Jafari, Manisha Arora, A.P. Dubey, Vipin M. Vashishtha, Rohit Agarwal, Amod Kumar, Walter A. Orenstein, Saad B. Omer, James M. Hughes
Healthcare-associated infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation patients: risk factors and impact on outcome
June 2012 (Vol. 16 | No. 6 | Pages e424-e428)
Elisa Teixeira Mendes, Frederico Dulley, Mariusa Basso, Marjorie Vieira Batista, Fabio Coracin, Thais Guimarães, Maria Aparecida Shikanai-Yasuda, Anna Sara Levin, Silvia Figueiredo Costa

The discovery of viruses: advancing science and medicine by challenging dogma
18 May 2012
Andrew W. Artenstein
Summary: The discovery of viruses in the final years of the nineteenth century represented the culmination of two decades of work on tobacco mosaic disease by three botanical scientists. Eventually th...
Vir typing for the analysis of group C and group G streptococcal genotypes
10 May 2012
D. Prabu, Thangam Menon
Group C and group G streptococci (GCS and GGS) cause a wide variety of suppurative and nonsuppurative infections. The epidemiology of GCS and GGS is considered to be important, since infections caused...
Epidemiological and laboratory characterization of a yellow fever outbreak in northern Uganda, October 2010–January 2011
10 May 2012
Joseph F. Wamala, Mugagga Malimbo, Charles L. Okot, Ann D. Atai-Omoruto, Emmanuel Tenywa, Jeffrey R. Miller, Stephen Balinandi, Trevor Shoemaker, Charles Oyoo, Emmanuel O. Omony, Atek Kagirita, Monica M. Musenero, Issa Makumbi, Miriam Nanyunja, Julius J. Lutwama, Robert Downing, Anthony K. Mbonye
Summary: Background: In November 2010, following reports of an outbreak of a fatal, febrile, hemorrhagic illness in northern Uganda, the Uganda Ministry of Health established multisector teams to resp...
Case fatality associated with a hypervirulent strain in patients with culture-positive Clostridium difficile infection: a retrospective population-based study
09 May 2012
Reetta Huttunen, Risto Vuento, Jaana Syrjänen, Päivi Tissari, Janne Aittoniemi
Summary: Background: Clostridium difficile is a major infectious cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea. The epidemiology of C. difficile infection (CDI) is changing, with evidence of increased incid...
Evaluation of a new interferon-gamma release assay and comparison to tuberculin skin test during a tuberculosis outbreak
30 April 2012
Qisheng Song, Huishan Guo, Hui Zhong, Zuoguang Liu, Xiuqin Chen, Cui Wang, Neal Touzjian, Yichen Lv, Xiwei Lu, Qi Wang
Summary: Background: The tuberculin skin test (TST) is commonly used for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in non-bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccination settings. In recent year...

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