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514. The Effect of Probiotics on the Incidence of Clostridium difficile

A Case of Pneumonia Caused by Pneumocystis Jirovecii and Cryptococcus Neoformans in a Patient with HTLV-1 Associated Adult T- Cell Leukemia/Lymphoma: Occam's Razor Blunted

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A cluster of nosocomial herpes simplex virus type 1 pneumonia in a medical intensive care unit

scientific article published on 17 October 2006

A positive rapid strep test in a young adult with acute pharyngitis: Be careful what you wish for!

scientific article published on September 2017

A rare case of influenza A in a hospitalized adult presenting with encephalitis and a seizure.

scientific article published on 12 May 2018

Acinetobacter baumannii pseudomeningitis

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Acute Encephalitis in an Adult with Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma with Secondary Involvement of the Central Nervous System: Infectious or Non-Infectious Etiology?

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Adenovirus Pneumonia Mimicking Legionnaire's Disease with Acute Pancreatitis

scientific article published on June 2016

Adult Kawasaki's disease with myocarditis, splenomegaly, and highly elevated serum ferritin levels

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Adult Measles in a Traveller: Infection Control Implications of Instituting Proper Precautions ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Adult human metapneumonovirus (hMPV) pneumonia mimicking Legionnaire's disease

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Aerococcus christensenii native aortic valve subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) presenting as culture negative endocarditis (CNE) mimicking marantic endocarditis

scientific article published on 23 November 2013

Aerosolized antibiotics are not a good idea--don't go with the flow: Premum Non Nocere!

scientific article published on 01 February 2009

Alexander the Great and West Nile virus encephalitis

scientific article published on July 2004

Amantadine may be lifesaving in severe influenza A.

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An adult returned traveler from Dubai hospitalized with an influenza-like illness (ILI): Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) or influenza? Infection control implications from a near MERS case

scientific article published on 23 April 2015

An unusual initial manifestation of acute leukemia

scientific article published on 09 October 2012

Antibiotic selection in the penicillin-allergic patient

scientific article published on November 2006

Antibiotic selection is crucial for optimal empiric monotherapy of ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Antimicrobial Therapy for Legionnaire's Disease: Antibiotic Stewardship Implications

scientific article published on March 2017

Antimicrobial selection in the penicillin-allergic patient.

scientific article published on June 2001

Antimicrobial therapy of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae, vancomycin-resistant enterococci, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on November 2006

Are ESR/CRP ratios helpful in differentiating West Nile encephalitis from non-West Nile virus meningitis/encephalitis? ⬇️

scientific article published on February 21, 2013

Atypical dengue fever mimicking typhoid fever in a college student traveler

scientific article published in April 2009

Atypical pneumonias: current clinical concepts focusing on Legionnaires' disease

scientific article published on May 2008

Babesiosis mimicking Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) infectious mononucleosis: Another cause of false positive monospot tests ⬇️

scientific article published on January 13, 2012

Before influenza tests results are available, can droplet precautions be instituted if influenza is suggested by leukopenia, relative lymphopenia, or thrombocytopenia? ⬇️

scientific article published on 02 June 2011

Beyond bundles and coated catheters: effective interventions to decrease central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI)

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

Biological terrorism and the allergist's office practice ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Brief history of the clinical diagnosis of malaria: from Hippocrates to Osler

scientific article published on September 2008

Bright spots: Q fever prosthetic valve endocarditis

scientific article published on 14 October 2013

Bronchoalveolar carcinoma (adenocarcinoma) mimicking recurrent bacterial community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 11, 2011

Burkholderia contaminans Colonization from Contaminated Liquid Docusate (Colace) in a Immunocompetent Adult with Legionnaire's Disease: Infection Control Implications and the Potential Role of Candida pellucosa

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

C. pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in mimicking Mycoplasma pneumoniae meningoencephalitis complicated by asthma

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

Campylobacter jejuni pancolitis mimicking idiopathic ulcerative colitis

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Can influenza A be transmitted from patients previously vaccinated against influenza?

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Cephalexin remains preferred oral antibiotic therapy for uncomplicated cellulitis

scientific article published in November 2008

Cephalexin remains the preferred antibiotic for uncomplicated cellulitis: revisited

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lactic acid levels: a rapid and reliable way to differentiate viral from bacterial meningitis or concurrent viral/bacterial meningitis

scientific article published in January 2012

Cerebrospinal fluid lactic acid levels: Accurate, fast, and inexpensive ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Characteristic Predictors that Increase the Pretest Probability of Legionnaires Disease: "Don't Order a Test Just Because You Can" Revisited

scientific article published on 01 December 2015

Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus

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Cholesterol emboli mimicking acute bacterial endocarditis

scientific article published in November 2002

Citrobacter koseri infection and abscess associated with Harrington rods

scientific article published in October 2004

Clinical Diagnosis of Legionnaire's Disease: Six Characteristic Clinical Predictors

scientific article published on 01 July 2015

Clinical and cost ineffectiveness of preoperative screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and intranasal mupirocin in preventing methicillin-resistant S aureus infections in cardiothoracic surgery ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 December 2010

Clinical approach to fever in the neurosurgical intensive care unit: Focus on drug fever ⬇️

scientific article published on May 6, 2013

Clinical features of Rocky Mountain spotted fever

scientific article published in March 2008

Clinical implications of dual-positive rapid influenza diagnostic tests during influenza season: Co-colonization, coinfection, or false positive test?

scientific article published in October 2014

Clinical relevance of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Clinical- and cost-ineffectiveness of targeted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus screening of high-risk patients admitted to a low-prevalence teaching hospital ⬇️

scientific article published on June 13, 2013

Community-acquired pneumonia: diagnostic vs prognostic significance of the platelet count

scientific article published in May 2011

Community-acquired versus nosocomial Legionella pneumonia: Lessons learned from an epidemiologic investigation

scientific article published on 14 July 2011

Cost implications of duplicative influenza polymerase chain reaction testing during the 2013-2014 influenza season: the price of certainty.

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Coxsackie B5 infection in an adult with fever, truncal rash, diarrhea and splenomegaly with highly elevated ferritin levels

scientific article published on 21 August 2016

Critical care clinics

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

Cryptococcal pneumonia in a patient with presumptive sarcoidosis and selective immunoglobulin A deficiency ⬇️

scientific article published on December 14, 2011

Cytomegalovirus colitis mimicking ischemic colitis in an immunocompetent host

scientific article published in July 2005

Cytomegalovirus pneumonia: community-acquired pneumonia in immunocompetent hosts

scientific article published on March 2010

Cytomegalovirus reactivation in the intensive care unit: not a cause of late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Daptomycin cure after cefazolin treatment failure of Methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) tricuspid valve acute bacterial endocarditis from a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) line

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Dengue fever in a returning traveller from El Salvador: another cause of a false positive Monospot test

scientific article published on 4 March 2014

Dengue fever: diagnostic importance of a camelback fever pattern

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Diagnostic Dilemma

scientific article published in February 2018

Diagnostic dilemma: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infectious mononucleosis with lung involvement or co-infection with Legionnaire's disease?

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

Diagnostic importance of headache as a key symptom in suspecting malaria in adult returning travelers

scientific article published on 24 October 2009

Diagnostic importance of relative lymphopenia as a marker of swine influenza (H1N1) in adults

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Differential diagnosis of West Nile encephalitis

scientific article published in October 2004

Difficulties in Teaching Diagnostic Reasoning in the Digital Age: The Critical Role of the Teacher-Clinician Mentor

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Distinguishing bacterial from viral meningitis: the critical importance of the CSF lactic acid levels

scientific article published on 13 June 2006

Does febrile neutropenia in adult oncology patients predispose to urinary tract infections or urosepsis?

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Doxycycline for community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Doxycycline for nursing home acquired pneumonia (NHAP)

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

During influenza season: all influenza-like illnesses are not due to influenza: dengue mimicking influenza

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E. faecalis vancomycin-sensitive enterococcal bacteremia unresponsive to a vancomycin tolerant strain successfully treated with high-dose daptomycin

scientific article published in November 2007

Ehrlichia chaffeensis human monocytic ehrlichiosis with pancytopenia

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Ehrlichia chaffeensis presenting with bilateral anterior thigh pain (Louria's sign) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 18, 2012

Empiric antimicrobial therapy for bacteremia: get it right from the start or get a call from infectious disease

scientific article published on 24 September 2004

Empiric antimicrobial therapy of community-acquired pneumonia: clinical diagnosis versus procalcitonin levels

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Empiric therapy of community-acquired pneumonia: guidelines for the perplexed?

scientific article published on May 2004

Enhanced Efficacy of High Dose Oral Vancomycin Therapy in Clostridium difficile Diarrhea for Hospitalized Adults Not Responsive to Conventional Oral Vancomycin Therapy: Antibiotic Stewardship Implications

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Enterococcus faecalis arterial line infection

scientific article published on 01 February 2003

Enterovirus D-68 presenting with acute pancreatitis

scientific article published in June 2015

Erdheim-Chester disease: a rare cause of recurrent fever of unknown origin mimicking lymphoma

scientific article published on 15 November 2013

Ertapenem. A review of its microbiologic, pharmacokinetic and clinical aspects.

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Ertapenem: lack of allergic reactions in hospitalised adults reporting a history of penicillin allergy

scientific article published on 01 October 2013

Extended spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae chronic ambulatory peritoneal dialysis peritonitis treated successfully with polymyxin B.

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FUO due to sarcoidosis-lymphoma syndrome

scientific article published on March 2004

Facial Puffiness in a Returning Traveler From Puerto Rico: Chikungunya, Dengue Fever, or Zika Virus?

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Facial herpes zoster complicated by varicella zoster virus (VZV) encephalitis: The diagnostic significance of atypical lymphocytes in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) ⬇️

scientific article published on December 8, 2010

Falsely high antibiotic resistance in community-acquired E. coli UTIs requiring hospitalization

scientific article published in June 2005

Fatal Streptococcus viridans (S. oralis) aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) with paravalvular abscesses related to steroids

scientific article published on 30 September 2008

Fatal case of pneumonia associated with pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in HIV-positive patient

scientific article published on January 2010

Fever and Prominent Arthralgia in a Traveler who Returned from Amazonia: Differentiating between Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Fever

scientific article published on June 2015

Fever and rash in an adult traveler: The many masquerades of measles ⬇️

scientific article published on September 17, 2011

Fever in a traveler returning from the Amazon. Do not forget hepatitis A.

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Fever myths and misconceptions: The beneficial effects of fever as a critical component of host defenses against infection ⬇️

scientific article published on October 20, 2011

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) and a renal mass: renal cell carcinoma, renal tuberculosis, renal malakoplakia, or xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis?

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) attributable to indolent lymphoproliferative disorder due to a plasmacytoma expressing immunoglobulin A ⬇️

scientific article published on December 15, 2011

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) caused by Kikuchi's disease mimicking lymphoma

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) caused by miliary tuberculosis: diagnostic significance of morning temperature spikes

scientific article published on October 2008

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) caused by multiple myeloma: the diagnostic value of the Naprosyn test.

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Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to Legionnaire's disease

scientific article published on 17 October 2014

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to Rosai-Dorfman disease with mediastinal adenopathy mimicking lymphoma: diagnostic importance of elevated serum ferritin levels and polyclonal gammopathy

scientific article published on 30 September 2008

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to a solitary cavitary lung lesion: the deadly ferritin-laced doughnut

scientific article published on July 2010

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to babesiosis in a immunocompetent host

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Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to cyclic neutropenia with relative bradycardia

scientific article published on 31 October 2008

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to large B-cell lymphoma: The diagnostic significance of highly elevated alkaline phosphatase and serum ferritin levels ⬇️

scientific article published on August 14, 2012

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to miliary BCG: The diagnostic importance of morning temperature spikes and highly elevated ferritin levels

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Fever of unknown origin (FUO) due to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presenting as pericarditis ⬇️

scientific article published on September 11, 2012

Fever of unknown origin (FUO) in a renal transplant recipient due to drug fever from sirolimus

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Fever of unknown origin (FUO) in an elderly adult due to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) presenting as “typhoidal mononucleosis,” mimicking a lymphoma ⬇️

scientific article published on July 19, 2012

Fever of unknown origin (FUO): CMV infectious mononucleosis or lymphoma?

scientific article published on 20 April 2018

Fever of unknown origin (FUO): de Quervain's subacute thyroiditis with highly elevated ferritin levels mimicking temporal arteritis (TA).

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Fever of unknown origin (FUO): diagnostic importance of serum ferritin levels

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Fever of unknown origin caused by adult juvenile rheumatoid arthritis: the diagnostic significance of double quotidian fevers and elevated serum ferritin levels

scientific article published on November 2004

Fever of unknown origin caused by late-onset rheumatoid arthritis

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Fever of unknown origin due to preleukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome: the diagnostic importance of monocytosis with elevated serum ferritin levels.

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Fever of unknown origin: a clinical approach

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Fever of unknown origin: chronic lymphatic leukemia versus lymphoma (Richter's transformation).

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Fever of unknown origin: clinical overview of classic and current concepts

scientific article published on December 2007

Fever of unknown origin: focused diagnostic approach based on clinical clues from the history, physical examination, and laboratory tests

scientific article published on December 2007

Fever of unknown origin: subacute thyroiditis versus typhoid fever

scientific article published on March 2005

Fever of unknown origin: temporal arteritis presenting with persistent cough and elevated serum ferritin levels

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Flavimonas oryzihabitans pseudomeningitis ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 2003

Flu or strep? Rapid tests can mislead

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Fulminant fatal swine influenza (H1N1): Myocarditis, myocardial infarction, or severe influenza pneumonia?

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H1N1 influenza: contact investigation burden because of failure to institute influenza precautions in patients with negative rapid influenza diagnostic test results

scientific article published in January 2010

HIV adult with fever and shortness of breath: Influenza B misdiagnosed as Pneumocystis (carinii) jiroveci pneumonia (PCP)

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Haemophilus parainfluenzae aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) successfully treated with oral levofloxacin

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Haemophilus parainfluenzae mitral prosthetic valve endocarditis in an intravenous drug abuser

scientific article published in March 2005

Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) Encephalitis Mimicking Glioblastoma: Case Report and Review of the Literature

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Herpes simplex (HSV-1) aseptic meningitis

scientific article published on 01 May 2004

Herpes simplex virus (HSV) pneumonia in a heart transplant: diagnosis and therapy

scientific article published on January 2007

Herpes simplex virus pneumonia presenting as failure to wean from a ventilator

scientific article published in January 2003

Herpes simplex virus-1 late-onset ventilator-associated pneumonia: the importance of cytopathologic diagnosis

scientific article published in April 2010

Highly elevated serum ferritin levels are a diagnostic marker in babesiosis

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Highly elevated serum ferritin levels as a diagnostic marker for Legionella pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Historical aspects of infectious diseases, part I.

scientific article published in March 2004

How safe is doxycycline for young children or for pregnant or breastfeeding women?

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV 3) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) mimicking pertussis in an adult: the diagnostic importance of hoarseness and monocytosis

scientific article published on 02 October 2010

Human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV 3) viral community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) mimicking swine influenza (H1N1) during the swine flu pandemic ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2011

Hypophosphatemia: diagnostic significance in Legionnaires' disease

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Impact of plague on human history

scientific article published on June 2006

In hospitalized adults the combined presence of leukocytosis, relative lymphopenia, and thrombocytopenia is predictive of swine influenza (H1N1) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 31, 2013

Infection Control Implications of Protracted Lengths of Stay With Noninfluenza Viral Influenza-Like Illnesses in Hospitalized Adults During the 2015 Influenza A (H3N2) Epidemic

scientific article published in September 2015

Infection control implications of influenza A and influenza B: Coinfection or cocirculating strains? ⬇️

scientific article published on July 13, 2011

Infection control implications of nosocomial pertussis exposure in a hospitalized adult during influenza season

scientific article published in August 2011

Infections Acquired in the Garden

scientific article published on October 2015

Infectious mononucleosis like illness with costochondritis and profound relative lymphocytosis due to Coxsackie A

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Infectious mononucleosis-like syndrome probably attributable to Coxsackie A virus infection ⬇️

scientific article published on January 31, 2012

Influenza A presenting as viral encephalitis in an adult ⬇️

scientific article published on August 10, 2011

Influenza pseudoinfection

scientific article published on 01 November 2009

Influenza: historical aspects of epidemics and pandemics.

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Intracranial complications of acute bacterial endocarditis.

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

Intravenous to oral antibiotic switch therapy

scientific article published on 01 May 2001

Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia associated with a Tesio hemodialysis catheter

scientific article published in October 2004

Lack of Pharmacokinetic Basis of Weight-Based Dosing and Intra-Operative Re-Dosing with Cefazolin Surgical Prophylaxis in Obese Patients: Implications for Antibiotic Stewardship

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Lack of value of repeat stool testing for Clostridium difficile toxin

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Legionella community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) presenting with spontaneous bilateral pneumothoraces

scientific article published in May 2008

Legionella pneumophila community acquired pneumonia (CAP) presenting with myoclonus

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

Legionella pneumophila community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a post-splenectomy patient with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) ⬇️

scientific article published on December 22, 2011

Legionella pneumophila community-acquired pneumonia (CAP): incidence and intensity of microscopic hematuria

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Legionnaire's Disease Since Philadelphia: Lessons Learned and Continued Progress

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Legionnaire's Disease and Its Protean Clinical Manifestations: The Ongoing Challenges of the Most Interesting Atypical Pneumonia.

scientific article published in March 2017

Legionnaire's Disease and its Mimics: A Clinical Perspective

scientific article published on March 2017

Legionnaire's Disease: A Clinical Diagnostic Approach

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Legionnaire's disease presenting with encephalitis, myoclonus, and seizures: Successful treatment with doxycycline

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Legionnaires' disease

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Legionnaires' disease mimicking swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia during the "herald wave" of the pandemic

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Legionnaires' disease: clinical differentiation from typical and other atypical pneumonias

scientific article published on March 2010

Lessons learned from splenic infarcts with fever of unknown origin (FUO): culture-negative endocarditis (CNE) or malignancy?

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Listeria monocytogenes encephalitis mimicking Herpes Simplex virus encephalitis: the differential diagnostic importance of cerebrospinal fluid lactic acid levels

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Listeria monocytogenes encephalitis mimicking West Nile encephalitis

scientific article published on January 2004

Liver involvement with Mycoplasma pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia

scientific article published on July 2003

Lyme carditis with isolated left bundle branch block and myocarditis successfully treated with oral doxycycline.

scientific article published on 16 December 2017

Malaria or typhoid fever: a diagnostic dilemma?

scientific article published in December 2005

Melioidosis breast abscesses ⬇️

scientific article published on January 20, 2012

Meropenem delirium: a previously unrecognized neurologic side effect

scientific article published on 27 February 2014

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) mitral valve acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE) in a patient with Job's syndrome (hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome) successfully treated with linezolid and high-dose daptomycin

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus prosthetic aortic valve endocarditis with paravalvular abscess treated with daptomycin

scientific article published in January 2005

Methicillin-resistant and -sensitive Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization of insulin-dependent children with juvenile onset diabetes mellitus

scientific article published in October 2004

Microbiologic and echocardiographic pitfalls in diagnosis of native valve Staphylococcus aureus acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE): a clinical approach

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Minocycline is a reliable and effective oral option to treat meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infections, including doxycycline treatment failures

scientific article published on 25 January 2014

Minocycline versus doxycycline for meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): in vitro susceptibility versus in vivo effectiveness

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Minocycline, often forgotten but preferred to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole or doxycycline for the treatment of community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft-tissue infections

scientific article published on 13 September 2013

Monotherapy with High Dose Once Daily Tigecycline is Highly Effective Against Acinetobacter baumanii and other Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) Gram-Negative Bacilli (GNB).

scientific article published in March 2018

Mycoplasma pneumoniae community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly: Diagnostic significance of acute thrombocytosis

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Mycoplasma pneumoniae preceding Lemierre’s syndrome due to Fusobacterium nucleatum complicated by acute Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infectious mononucleosis in an immunocompetent host ⬇️

scientific article published on March 28, 2012

Native aortic valve enterococcal endocarditis with myocardial paravalvular abscess

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

New uses for older antibiotics: nitrofurantoin, amikacin, colistin, polymyxin B, doxycycline, and minocycline revisited

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Nitrofurantoin: Preferred Empiric Therapy for Community-Acquired Lower Urinary Tract Infections ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

No need for an initial test dose of meropenem or ertapenem in patients reporting anaphylactic reactions to penicillins

scientific article published on 07 January 2015

Nosocomial Escherichia coli pacemaker pocket infection ⬇️

scientific article published on July 30, 2011

Nosocomial methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcal aureus (MSSA) native mitral valve acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE) due to radiofrequency catheter ablation (RCA) procedure ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2011

Once Daily High Dose Tigecycline Is Optimal: Tigecycline PK/PD Parameters Predict Clinical Effectiveness

scientific article published on 9 March 2018

Once daily high dose tigecycline - pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic based dosing for optimal clinical effectiveness: dosing matters, revisited

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Optimal Cefazolin Prophylactic Dosing for Bariatric Surgery: No Need for Higher Doses or Intraoperative Redosing.

scientific article published on 12 August 2016

Optimal therapy for multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii

scientific article published on January 2010

Oral and i.v.-to-p.o. switch antibiotic therapy of hospitalized patients with serious infections

scientific article published on 01 January 2008

Oral antibiotic therapy of serious systemic infections

scientific article published on November 2006

Oral therapy of catheter-associated bacteriuria (CAB) in the era of antibiotic resistance: nitrofurantoin revisited

scientific article published on 01 April 2012

Oral versus IV treatment for catheter-related bloodstream infections

scientific article published on November 2007

Osler on typhoid fever: differentiating typhoid from typhus and malaria

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Osteomyelitis in elderly patients

scientific article published on 11 July 2002

Pacemaker-induced Staphylococcus aureus mitral valve acute bacterial endocarditis complicated by persistent bacteremia from a coronary stent: Cure with prolonged/high-dose daptomycin without toxicity

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Parvovirus B19 Mimicking Epstein-Barr Virus Infectious Mononucleosis in an Adult ⬇️

scientific article published on March 14, 2013

Parvovirus B19 with a scarlatiniform/rubelliform rash and small joint arthritis mimicking rubella in an adult

scientific article published on 11 July 2012

Penicillin resistance in pneumococcal pneumonia. Antibiotics with low resistance potential are effective and pose less risk

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Penicillium janthinellum in sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage in an AIDS patient with pneumonia

scientific article published on 01 April 1997

Persistent Legionnaire's disease in an adult with hairy cell leukemia successfully treated with prolonged levofloxacin therapy

scientific article published on 26 May 2015

Persistent extended-spectrum β-lactamase-positive Escherichia coli chronic prostatitis successfully treated with a combination of fosfomycin and doxycycline

scientific article published on 20 January 2015

Persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia due to a linezolid "tolerant" strain

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Persistent methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) bacteremia due to a linezolid "tolerant" strain

scientific article published on 3 September 2009

Pharmacokinetic considerations in selecting optimal antibiotic therapy for Mycoplasma pneumoniae encephalitis

scientific article published on 24 January 2019

Pharmacokinetic considerations regarding tigecycline for multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae or MDR Acinetobacter baumannii urosepsis

scientific article published in May 2009

Photo quiz: A 45-year-old male with rash, fever, and diarrhea

scientific article published on June 2012

Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in a non-HIV patient on steroids

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Post craniotomy extra-ventricular drain (EVD) associated nosocomial meningitis: CSF diagnostic criteria

scientific article published on 07 February 2015

Post-Laminectomy Wound Infections: Colonized Seromas Mimicking Wound Infections

scientific article published on 14 February 2014

Post-viral influenza Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia in an intravenous drug abuser

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Potential pitfalls of basing specific antibiotic therapy on rapid susceptibility reporting

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Predicting in vivo effectiveness from in vitro susceptibility: A step closer to performing testing of uropathogens in human urine ⬇️

scientific article published on 08 May 2012

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Procalcitonin vs Clinical and Chest Film Findings to Diagnose Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Patients With Acute Asthma or Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Bronchitis ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Prognostic importance of lymphopenia in West Nile encephalitis

scientific article published on November 2004

Prophylaxis for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections: Nitrofurantoin, Not Trimethoprim-Sulfamethoxazole or Cranberry Juice ⬇️

scientific article published on January 9, 2012

Pseudomonas aeruginosa: resistance and therapy

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Pseudosepsis: rectus sheath hematoma mimicking septic shock.

scientific article published on November 2006

Q fever bioprosthetic aortic valve endocarditis (PVE) successfully treated with doxycycline monotherapy

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Q fever community-acquired pneumonia in a patient with Crohn's disease on immunosuppressive therapy

scientific article published on July 2007

Quadri-valvular endocarditis caused by Streptococcus mutans

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Quadrivalvular marantic endocarditis (ME) mimicking acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE).

scientific article published on March 2007

Raoultella planticola chronic bacterial prostatitis with prostatic calcifications: successful treatment with prolonged fosfomycin therapy

scientific article published on 24 March 2016

Rapid clinical diagnosis in fatal swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia in an adult with negative rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs): diagnostic swine influenza triad.

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Rapid clinical diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease during the "herald wave" of the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic: the Legionnaires' disease triad

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Rapid clinical diagnosis of swine influenza (H1N1) using the Swine influenza diagnostic triad

scientific article published on 18 April 2010

Recurrent FUO due to intermittent Enterobacter cloacae bacteremias from an infected pacemaker lead diagnosed by gallium scan

scientific article published on 2 August 2017

Recurrent Fever of Unknown Origin (FUO) Due to Periodic Fever, Aphthous Stomatititis, Pharyngitis and Adenitis (FAPA) Syndrome in an Adult

scientific article published on 19 August 2013

Recurrent fever of unknown origin (FUO): aseptic meningitis, hepatosplenomegaly, pericarditis and a double quotidian fever due to juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA).

scientific article published on 30 March 2011

Renal transplant with bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia (BOOP) attributable to tacrolimus and herpes simplex virus (HSV) pneumonia

scientific article published on October 11, 2011

Repeat Lumbar Puncture: CSF Lactic Acid Levels are Predictive of Cure with Acute Bacterial Meningitis

scientific article published on 17 December 2013

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a hospitalized adult with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) mimicking influenza A and Pneumocystis (carinii) jiroveci pneumonia (PCP).

scientific article published on 17 October 2011

Rocky Mountain spotted fever revisited

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Round Pneumonia in a 50-Year-Old Man ⬇️

scientific article published on December 18, 2012

Salmonella paratyphi A enteric fever mimicking viral meningitis

scientific article published on November 2004

Sarcoidosis with fever and a splenic infarct due to CMV or lymphoma?

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Sepsis and septic shock: selection of empiric antimicrobial therapy

scientific article published on April 2008

Severe Adenoviral Pneumonia in an Immunocompetent Host with Persistent Fevers Treated with Multiple Empiric Antibiotics for Presumed Bacterial Co-Infection: An Antibiotic Stewardship Perspective on De-Escalation Derailed

scientific article published on 4 April 2017

Severe Legionella pneumonia: rapid presumptive clinical diagnosis with Winthrop-University Hospital's weighted point score system (modified)

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Severe Q fever community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) mimicking Legionnaires' disease: Clinical significance of cold agglutinins, anti-smooth muscle antibodies and thrombocytosis

scientific article published on 12 January 2009

Severe and persistent hypoglycemia due to gatifloxacin interaction with oral hypoglycemic agents

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Severe cytomegalovirus (CMV) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in a nonimmunocompromised host

scientific article published on 01 October 2008

Severe cytomegalovirus (CMV) community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) precipitating a systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) flare

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Severe swine influenza A (H1N1) versus severe human seasonal influenza A (H3N2): Clinical comparisons ⬇️

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Smallpox and measles: historical aspects and clinical differentiation

scientific article published in March 2004

Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia associated with intra-aortic balloon pumps

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Staphylococcus hominis native mitral valve bacterial endocarditis (SBE) in a patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

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Strategies to control antibiotic resistance

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Streptococcal viridans subacute bacterial endocarditis associated with antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (ANCA) ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 March 2003

Study of the radiologic features of Legionnaires' disease with mediastinal adenopathy: Legionella or lymphoma?

scientific article published on 27 January 2018

Subacute thyroiditis (de Quervain’s) due to influenza A: Presenting as fever of unknown origin (FUO) ⬇️

scientific article published on July 17, 2012

Successful treatment of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis with prolonged high-dose daptomycin plus ceftaroline therapy

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Swine Influenza (H1N1) pneumonia: clinical considerations

scientific article published on March 2010

Swine influenza (H1N1) and acute appendicitis

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Swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia during the 'herald wave' of the pandemic: no increase in bacterial pneumonia without empirical antibiotics

scholarly article by Burke A Cunha published February 2010 in International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia in hospitalized adults: Chest film findings ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia: elevated serum procalcitonin levels not due to superimposed bacterial pneumonia

scientific article published on 25 February 2010

Swine influenza (H1N1): diagnostic dilemmas early in the pandemic.

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Swine infuenza (H1N1) pneumonia: bacterial airway colonization common but fatalities due to bacterial pneumonia remain relatively rare

scientific article published on 14 December 2009

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) cerebritis versus Listeria monocytogenes meningoencephalitis in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus on chronic corticosteroid therapy: the diagnostic importance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of lactic acid l

scientific article published on December 15, 2011

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) pneumonitis mimicking swine influenza pneumonia during the swine influenza (H1N1) pandemic

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The Master Clinician's Approach to Diagnostic Reasoning

scientific article published on 23 August 2016

The cause of the plague of Athens: plague, typhoid, typhus, smallpox, or measles?

scientific article published on March 2004

The clinical and laboratory diagnosis of acute meningitis and acute encephalitis ⬇️

scientific article published on May 30, 2013

The clinical diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease: the diagnostic value of combining non-specific laboratory tests

scientific article published on 14 April 2008

The death of Alexander the Great: malaria or typhoid fever?

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The diagnostic usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid lactic acid levels in central nervous system infections

scientific article published in October 2004

The effect of probiotics on the incidence of Clostridioides difficile: Retrospective cohort analysis

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

The gastrointestinal manifestations with swine influenza (H1N1) in hospitalized adults ⬇️

scientific article published on October 19, 2010

The lack of diagnostic value of the indium scan in acute bacterial endocarditis

scientific article published in October 2004

The pharmacokinetic basis of oral valacyclovir treatment of herpes simplex virus (HSV) or varicella zoster virus (VZV) meningitis, meningoencephalitis or encephalitis in adults

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The safety of nitrofurantoin for the treatment of nosocomial catheter-associated bacteriuria (CAB) and cystitis

scientific article published on 09 July 2014

The unexpected benefits of the national piperacillin/tazobactam shortage on antibiotic stewardship

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To the Editor: Measles: More than the rash

scientific article published on 01 August 2016

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE): Sufficiently sensitive screening test for native valve infective endocarditis (IE) ⬇️

scientific article published on April 11, 2011

Triad of non-specific laboratory tests in malaria

scientific article published in January 2008

Typhoid fever vs. malaria in a febrile returning traveler: typhomalaria revisited--an Oslerian perspective

scientific article published on 18 October 2012

Typhoid fever: the temporal relations of key clinical diagnostic points

scientific article published in June 2006

Unexplained Dyspnea in a Young Adult with Epstein-Barr Virus Infectious Mononucleosis: Pulmonary Involvement or Co-Infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pneumonia?

scientific article published on 4 September 2017

Unexplained increased incidence of Legionnaires disease during the "Herald Wave" of the H1N1 influenza pandemic

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Unusual nosocomial exposure to H1N1 influenza virus via open-chest cardiac massage

scientific article published in July 2010

Unusually severe varicella zoster (VZV) virus viral (aseptic) meningitis in an unimmunized, immunocompetent host with chickenpox ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Vancomycin Ineffective in Eliminating MRSA Colonization of Respiratory Secretions in Ventilated ICU Patients: A Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Perspective

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Vancomycin or linezolid empiric MRSA coverage with potential ventilator-associated pneumonia has no benefit or effect on outcomes: antibiotic stewardship implications

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Vancomycin revisited: a reappraisal of clinical use.

scientific article published on April 2008

Varicella-zoster virus meningoencephalitis in an immunocompetent patient without a rash

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia: monotherapy is optimal if chosen wisely

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Viridans streptococcal (Streptococcus intermedius) mitral valve subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) in a patient with mitral valve prolapse after a dental procedure: the importance of antibiotic prophylaxis

scientific article published on 10 July 2009

Viridans streptococcal (Streptococcus mitis) biosynthetic aortic prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) complicated by complete heart block and paravalvular abscess ⬇️

scientific article published on June 15, 2012

West Nile Virus (WNV) infection presenting as acute chorea ⬇️

scientific article published on December 9, 2011

West Nile Virus Aseptic Meningitis and Stuttering in Woman ⬇️

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West Nile encephalitis presenting with severe persistent chills mimicking malaria

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

West Nile encephalitis relapse presenting with abducens and facial nerve palsies

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West Nile viral encephalitis mimicking hepatic encephalopathy

scientific article published on January 2005

West Nile virus encephalitis mimicking central nervous system metastases from small cell lung cancer ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2003

West Nile virus encephalitis: clinical diagnostic and prognostic indicators in compromised hosts

scientific article published in July 2006

Winthrop-University Hospital Infectious Disease Division's swine influenza (H1N1) pneumonia diagnostic weighted point score system for hospitalized adults with influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) and negative rapid influenza diagnostic tests (RIDTs).

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With sepsis: If fever is good, then hypothermia is bad!

scientific article published on 01 October 2012

Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis complicated by psoas abscess

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