References for Sept 15 to 31, 2011 Puscast

For those who need the source:

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Antibiotic Overuse Reduced Without Restricting Availability http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750522

Bacillus Calmette-Guerin-related cold thigh abscess as an unusual cause of thigh swelling in infants following BCG vaccine administration: a case series Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011, 5:472

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Weekly / Vol. 60 / No. 37 September 23, 2011 Acute Illnesses Associated With Insecticides Used to Control Bed Bugs — Seven States, 2003–2010

Bloodstream Infection Raises Suspicion of Colorectal Cancer http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750162

Acid Reducers Triple Risk of C difficile-Associated Diarrhea http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750282

C. diff on the Rise Outside the Hospital http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750205

Oral Metronidazole Equivalent to Vancomycin for C difficile http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750290

Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2011 Sep 19. [Epub ahead of print] Dose of Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole to Treat Skin and Skin Structure Infections Caused by Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Early Treatment With Fluconazole May Abrogate the Development of IgG Antibodies in Coccidioidomycosis George R. Thompson III,1,2 Jennine M. Lunetta,1 Suzanne M. Johnson,1 Sandra Taylor,3 Derek Bays,1 Stuart H. Cohen,2 and Demosthenes Pappagianis1

Hospital Privacy Curtains Laden With Germs http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750198

Central Venous Catheter colonization with Staphylococcus aureus is not always an indication of antimicrobial therapy Patricia Muñoz MD, PhD1,2, Ana Fernández Cruz MD, PhD1, Rafael Usubillaga MD1, Ana Zorzano PharmD1, Marta Rodríguez- Créixems MD, PhD1,2, María Guembe MD, PhD1, Emilio Bouza MD, PhD1,2 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03683.x

Dengue—How Best to Classify It Anon Srikiatkhachorn,1 Alan L. Rothman,2 Robert V. Gibbons,3 Nopporn Sittisombut,4 Prida Malasit,5 Francis A. Ennis,1 Suchitra Nimmannitya,6 and Siripen Kalayanarooj6

Going to the Dogs: Pets and Owners Share Resistant Pathogens http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750572

Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2011 Jul;85(1):124-31. Increasing incidence of Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the United States, 2000-2007.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Weekly / Vol. 60 / No. 38 September 30, 2011 Clusters of Acute Respiratory Illness Associated with Human Enterovirus 68 — Asia, Europe, and United States, 2008–2010

Invasive Aspergillosis Complicating Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Infection in Severely Immunocompromised Patients Carolina Garcia-Vidal,1,2 Pere Barba,3 Montse Arnan,4 Asuncio ́n Moreno,5 Isabel Ruiz-Camps,6,2 Carlota Gudiol,1,2 Josefina Ayats,7,8 Guillermo Ortí,4 and Jordi Carratala`1,2

Clinicians Increasingly Recommend Flu Vaccine, But More to Do http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750104

Cephalosporin Susceptibility Among Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Isolates: United States, 2000–2010 (MMWR 60:873 2011)

Timing of HAART Initiation and Clinical Outcomes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Seroconverters Writing Committee for the CASCADE Collaboration* Arch Intern Med. 2011;171(17):1560-1569. doi:10.1001/archinternmed.2011.401

Toll-like receptor activation by helminths or helminth products to alleviate inflammatory bowel disease Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:186

Visceral Leishmaniasis and Arsenic: An Ancient Poison Contributing to Antimonial Treatment Failure in the Indian Subcontinent? Meghan R. Perry1, Susan Wyllie1, Vijay Kumar Prajapati2, Joerg Feldmann3, Shyam Sundar2, Marleen Boelaert4, Alan H. Fairlamb1*

Risk of Buruli Ulcer and Detection of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Mosquitoes in Southeastern Australia Caroline J. Lavender1,2, Janet A. M. Fyfe1,2, Joseph Azuolas3, Karen Brown3, Rachel N. Evans4, Lyndon R. Ray4, Paul D. R. Johnson1,2,5*

Maggot Debridement Promotes Healing of Long-Standing Wounds http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750553

Doorknobs May Be 'Reservoirs' for MRSA http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750168

Linezolid May Be Better for Diabetics With MRSA Pneumonia http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750190

Recurring Norovirus Transmission on an Airplane Craig N. Thornley,1 Nicola A. Emslie,2 Tim W. Sprott,2 Gail E. Greening,3 and Jackie P. Rapana1

Preoperative Chlorhexidine Wash Superior to Povidone-Iodine http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750716

Most Pneumococcal Isolates Are Not Covered by Vaccines http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750328

WHO Reports Polio Outbreak in China, Warns of Spread http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/749992

Failure of the Milwaukee Protocol in a Child With Rabies Angela Aramburo,1 Rodney E. Willoughby,5 Andrew W. Bollen,6 Carol A. Glaser,7 Charlotte J. Hsieh,2 Suzanne L. Davis,3 Kenneth W. Martin,4 and Arup Roy-Burman1

Rotavirus Vaccine and Health Care Utilization for Diarrhea in U.S. Children Jennifer E. Cortes, M.D., Aaron T. Curns, M.P.H., Jacqueline E. Tate, Ph.D., Margaret M. Cortese, M.D., Manish M. Patel, M.D., Fangjun Zhou, Ph.D., and Umesh D. Parashar, M.B., B.S., M.P.H.

Hospital Sewage a Breeding Ground for Bacterial Resistance http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750456

Illnesses From Contaminated Swimming Water Increasing http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/750296

Current Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Tuberculous Lymphadenitis Jose-Mario Fontanilla,1 Arti Barnes,2 and C. Fordham von Reyn3

Patterns of Illness in Travelers Visiting Mexico and Central America: The GeoSentinel Experience Jose Flores-Figueroa,1 Pablo C. Okhuysen,1,2,3 Frank von Sonnenburg,4 Herbert L. DuPont,1,2,3,5 Michael D. Libman,6 Jay S. Keystone,7 Devon C. Hale,8 Gerd Burchard,9 Pauline V. Han,10 Annelies Wilder-Smith,11 and David O. Freedman12 for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network*

Persistence of Varicella Zoster Virus DNA in Saliva After Herpes Zoster Maria A. Nagel,1 Alexander Choe,1 Randall J. Cohrs,1 Igor Traktinskiy,1 Kyle Sorensen,2 Satish K. Mehta,4 Duane L. Pierson,5 Stephen K. Tyring,6 Kassie Haitz,6 Catherine DiGiorgio,6 Whitney LaPolla,6 and Don Gilden1,3

Transfusion-Transmitted Yersinia enterocolitica Sepsis Francxoise Guinet, Elisabeth Carniel, and Alexandre Leclercq

Effects of temperature on the transmission of Yersinia pestis by the flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, in the late phase period Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:191