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How to differentiate between a dengue and COVID-19 fever? Watch out for these symptoms - Times of India

How to differentiate between a dengue and COVID-19 fever? Watch out for these symptoms    Times of India

USDA's Vaccine Candidate Successful in Blocking Spread of African Swine Fever Virus - Agricultural Research

USDA's Vaccine Candidate Successful in Blocking Spread of African Swine Fever Virus    Agricultural Research

Fact check: Xylitol may be helpful against viruses, but experts warn against hydrogen peroxide - USA TODAY

Fact check: Xylitol may be helpful against viruses, but experts warn against hydrogen peroxide    USA TODAY

Covid Will Soon Be Endemic, Thank Goodness - The Wall Street Journal

Covid Will Soon Be Endemic, Thank Goodness    The Wall Street Journal

Could bats help design better treatments for COVID-19? - Medical News Today

Could bats help design better treatments for COVID-19?    Medical News Today

Can Sinus Rinses Be Dangerous? - Healthline

Can Sinus Rinses Be Dangerous?    Healthline

SmartWatches Detect Viral Infection Before Symptoms Surface in Study | Health News | US News - U.S. News & World Report

SmartWatches Detect Viral Infection Before Symptoms Surface in Study | Health News | US News    U.S. News & World Report

Gene Found in Monkeys and Mice Could Work as a New Type of Antiviral to Block HIV, Ebola, and Other Deadly Viruses in Humans - University of Utah Health Care

Gene Found in Monkeys and Mice Could Work as a New Type of Antiviral to Block HIV, Ebola, and Other Deadly Viruses in Humans    University of Utah Health Care

Breakthrough COVID Infections: How Long Are Vaccinated People Contagious? - HuffPost

Breakthrough COVID Infections: How Long Are Vaccinated People Contagious?    HuffPost

Risk vs Impact: Viral Gene Therapy for SMA - AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

Risk vs Impact: Viral Gene Therapy for SMA    AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

SmartWatches Detect Viral Infection Before Symptoms Surface in Study | Health News | US News - U.S. News & World Report

SmartWatches Detect Viral Infection Before Symptoms Surface in Study | Health News | US News    U.S. News & World Report

Smart devices can help spot viral infections & COVID, claim US researchers - Republic World

Smart devices can help spot viral infections & COVID, claim US researchers    Republic World

Vero cell-adapted Infectious Bursal Disease virus LC-75 | VMRR - Dove Medical Press

Vero cell-adapted Infectious Bursal Disease virus LC-75 | VMRR    Dove Medical Press

The applications of nanomaterials against viral disease - News-Medical.Net

The applications of nanomaterials against viral disease    News-Medical.Net

Non-COVID-19 illnesses prevalent in student population - The Baylor Lariat

Non-COVID-19 illnesses prevalent in student population    The Baylor Lariat

Can We Ever Get Rid of C. Diff? - Infection Control Today

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C difficile infection is costly—both in economic and human terms. Between 1986 and 2013, CDI was among the top 5 most expensive HAIs in the United States.3 The burden of CDI adds an estimated 3 to 20 extra hospital days per patient with an additional cost of $1 billion in the US.3 Avalere Health, a health care consulting firm, conducted a retrospective cohort study of more than 268,000 Medicare recipients diagnosed with C difficile and recurrent CIDs (rCIDs) from 2010 through 2016. The investigators evaluated health care resource utilization and all-cause, direct medical costs associated with the infection. They found that 1 in 3 patients with C difficile had a recurrence within 12 months, and more than half of the patients with at least 1 recurrence experienced 2 or more after that first episode. Patients with C difficile spent 18 days in the hospital on average compared with 13 days for those with no recurrence.4 Admission Rates Total all-cause, direct medical costs per patient o

How sepsis need not be fatal: Molecular driver and protector of this life-threatening medical emergency - Science Daily

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Sepsis, the body's life-threatening response to infection affecting about 1.7 million adults in the United States each year, can lead to multisystem organ failure with a high mortality rate. No targeted therapeutics against this condition have been developed in the last decades. Now, however, a team led by biomedical scientists at the University of California, Riverside, offers some hope for future treatment during sepsis awareness month. The researchers, led by Meera Nair and Adam Godzik in the School of Medicine, identified molecular biomarkers, pathways and immune cell dynamics associated with sepsis that could be therapeutically targeted to prevent the condition from leading to death. These blood cell biomarkers -- the protein CD52 in lymphocytes; and the protein S100A9 involved in inflammatory processes -- are present in all blood cells but highly expressed in people with sepsis. How these biomarkers change early in sepsis -- specifically, within the first six hours -- cou

Epstein-Barr Virus: Forgotten Etiology of Hepatic Injury - Clinical Advisor

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A 20 year-old-man presents to the primary care clinic with abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting for 7 days as well as right-sided headache, photophobia, phonophobia, and back pain. The patient reports subjective fever starting 2 days ago along with chills, runny nose, and intermitting blood in the mucous when he blows his nose. He notes mild lightheadedness and says he is dehydrated because he is unable to tolerate liquid or solids. He denies diarrhea or constipation. He tried over-the-counter cold and flu medications containing acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, and phenylephrine with no symptom relief. He denies recent travel or known contacts with anyone who was ill, is not currently taking any daily medications, and has no known drug allergies or history of abdominal surgeries. Physical Examination The patient's vital signs are stable. On physical examination, the patient shows tenderness to both light and deep touch at that left-lower quadrant and

Viral diseases wreaking havoc in Diamond city Panna, 4 died - News Track English

Viral diseases wreaking havoc in Diamond city Panna, 4 died    News Track English

West Nile virus 2021: How to safe as deaths rise in some spots - TODAY

West Nile virus 2021: How to safe as deaths rise in some spots    TODAY

WUR participates in EU project to fight viral diseases in tomato and cucurbit crops - Mirage News

WUR participates in EU project to fight viral diseases in tomato and cucurbit crops    Mirage News

The Role of Proptech in the fight against Viral Infections in the Workplace - EIN News

The Role of Proptech in the fight against Viral Infections in the Workplace    EIN News

Bruce S. Rabin: The immune system and the COVID virus - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bruce S. Rabin: The immune system and the COVID virus    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

'Covid will become manageable': BioNTech co-founder says the virus will be with us for years - CNBC

'Covid will become manageable': BioNTech co-founder says the virus will be with us for years    CNBC

Illinois man who awoke to find a bat on his neck dies of rabies: health officials - New York Post

Illinois man who awoke to find a bat on his neck dies of rabies: health officials    New York Post

Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers - nejm.org

Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers    nejm.org

Lupus-Related Kidney Disease Predicts More Severe Cases of COVID-19 - Lupus Foundation of America

Lupus-Related Kidney Disease Predicts More Severe Cases of COVID-19    Lupus Foundation of America

Covid-19 Pill Developers Aim to Top Merck, Pfizer Efforts - Long Island Press

Covid-19 Pill Developers Aim to Top Merck, Pfizer Efforts    Long Island Press

COVID-19 pill developers aim to top Merck, Pfizer efforts - Reuters

COVID-19 pill developers aim to top Merck, Pfizer efforts    Reuters

Doctors alarmed as surge in respiratory disease leads to more children in hospital beds - KSTP

Doctors alarmed as surge in respiratory disease leads to more children in hospital beds    KSTP

Nasal microbiota holds clues to who will develop symptoms from novel coronavirus - Science Daily

Nasal microbiota holds clues to who will develop symptoms from novel coronavirus    Science Daily

Filling in the gaps of brain immune response - Open Access Government

Filling in the gaps of brain immune response    Open Access Government

Are we heading toward a COVID-19 and flu 'twindemic' this season? - Medical News Today

Are we heading toward a COVID-19 and flu 'twindemic' this season?    Medical News Today

FDA Clears New Technology to Differentiate Bacterial, Viral Infections Using Biomarkers - Infectious Disease Special Edition

FDA Clears New Technology to Differentiate Bacterial, Viral Infections Using Biomarkers    Infectious Disease Special Edition

Sequim science lab looks to fight viruses with algae - Sequim Gazette

Sequim science lab looks to fight viruses with algae    Sequim Gazette

Fringe Doctors' Groups Promote Ivermectin for COVID despite a Lack of Evidence - Scientific American

Fringe Doctors' Groups Promote Ivermectin for COVID despite a Lack of Evidence    Scientific American

Opinion: Preventing another global disease outbreak through vaccine preparedness - Agri-Pulse

Opinion: Preventing another global disease outbreak through vaccine preparedness    Agri-Pulse

Fatal disseminated infection due to Sarocladium kiliense in a diabetic patient with COVID‐19 - Wiley

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1 INTRODUCTION Sarocladium   kiliense is a soil saprophytic mold with worldwide distribution, which can infect humans and other mammals, sporadically. The clinical manifestations include mycetoma, onychomycosis, keratomycosis, pneumonia, and arthritis. Here, we present a disseminated infection due to S .  kiliense in a diabetic patient infected to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from Isfahan, Iran. Sarocladium kiliense , formerly known as Acremonium kiliense , 1 is an omnipresent soil saprophytic fungus generally found in the environment such as cereal fields and the soils of grass lands, and sporadically infecting humans and other mammals. 2-4 The species of Sarocladium are morphologically very homologous and in the most of the clinical cases the causative agent is reported only as a Sarocladium / Acremonium sp., which dramatically decreases the value of the investigations.