To earn CME related to this news article, click here. March 27, 2009 — The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious ...

Opportunistic infections (OIs) remain a principal challenge in the clinical management of HIV/AIDS, despite widespread availability of effective antiretroviral therapy (ART). These infections exploit ...

An international consortium co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center immunogeneticist Rubén Martínez-Barricarte, Ph.D., has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and ...

Purpose: The rationale for recent changes in guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected persons is discussed. Summary: The epidemiology of AIDS has changed ...

Acute sinusitis leads to more antibiotic prescriptions for U.S. adults than any other condition, but there is no consensus on which antibiotic is preferred for uncomplicated cases. In a retrospective, ...

This report updates and combines earlier versions of guidelines for the prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected adults (i.e., persons aged ≥18years) and adolescents ...

COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2 and first detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, is known to affect various systems of our body, primarily targeting the lungs. Currently, steroids are essentially the ...

Ascending dose trials of the safety and tolerability of Toca 511, a retroviral replicating vector encoding cytosine deaminase, in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma. Chemotherapy plus ...

Black yeast fungi comprise a diverse assemblage of melanised ascomycetous yeasts and yeast-like fungi notable for their thick, dark cell walls rich in dihydroxynaphthalene melanin. These organisms ...

Immunogeneticists have discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and profound susceptibility to opportunistic infections including a life-threatening fungal pneumonia. An ...

An international consortium co-led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center immunogeneticist Rubén Martínez-Barricarte, PhD, has discovered a new genetic disorder that causes immunodeficiency and ...