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Emerging Infections

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    What Do Hospitalists Need to Know About Monkeypox?

    June 24, 2022

    What is monkeypox? Monkeypox is a rare infection caused by the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus in the family Poxviridae. The Orthopoxvirus genus also includes...

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    COVID-19 antibody tests proliferate, but what do they show?

    April 23, 2020

    “Having many inaccurate tests is worse than having no tests at all,” one critic says.

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    CDC begins coronavirus diagnostic test kit distribution; new case confirmed in Wisconsin

    February 5, 2020

    Today, the test kits will start shipping to over 100 U.S. public health labs.

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    Echoes of SARS mark 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak

    January 28, 2020

    One-third of patients hospitalized for 2019 novel coronavirus infection required ICU admission, and six of the 41 (15%) died.

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    CDC: Five confirmed 2019-nCoV cases in the U.S.

    January 27, 2020

    At this time in the United States, the virus is not spreading in the community.

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    Wuhan virus: What clinicians need to know

    January 26, 2020

    “It’s not good enough to just download CDC’s guidance; use it to make your own local plan and know what to do 24/7.”

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    Second U.S. coronavirus patient confirmed

    January 24, 2020

    A Chicago resident returning from Wuhan, China, on Jan. 13, 2020, developed symptoms of the disease and contacted her health care provider.

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    A sepsis death linked to fecal microbiota transplantation

    October 30, 2019

    Two patients developed bacteremia after receiving a fecal microbiota transplant from the same donor whose stool contained extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing E. coli.

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    CDC: Look for early symptoms of acute flaccid myelitis, report suspected cases

    July 9, 2019

    The average age of a patient diagnosed with AFM is 5 years

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    FDA invites sample submission for FDA-ARGOS database

    June 12, 2019

    The project hopes to make diagnosing pathogens – including biothreats like Ebola and Zika – both easier and faster.

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