Background Suboptimal antibiotic use in respiratory infections is widespread in hospital
medicine and primary care. Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) teams within hospitals …

Neurocysticercosis is thought to be the most common helminthic infection of the central
nervous system and its epidemiology is changing due to increasing travel and migration …

ABSTRACT A rapid diagnosis is considered important in HIV care. In 138,911 testing
episodes with the Abbott Architect HIV Ag/Ab Combo assay (3,705 reactive samples), a …

Introduction Achievement of the 2030 World Health Organisation (WHO) global hepatitis C
virus (HCV) elimination targets will be underpinned by scale-up of testing and use of direct …

Background Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is increasingly being found in populations
without traditional risk factors. We compared the relative frequency, risk factors, severity, and …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of viral polymerase chain reaction (PCR)
testing in patients with aseptic meningitis and identify opportunities for improvement in …

Objectives The significance of sera with isolated reactive treponemal chemiluminescence
immunoassay (IRTCIA) results is unclear. Women have this phenotype more commonly than …

Background: Antibiotic allergy labels have a direct impact on individual patient care and on
the consumption of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Objective: Our aim was to establish the …

Blood cultures have an important role in the diagnosis of life threatening infections.
However, contamination of blood cultures (ie false-positive) is a problem within the hospital …

Steiner and colleagues (1) report three cases of focal neuromuscular dysfunction that
developed 3 to 6 months after tattooing, and they hypothesize that the mechanism is related …