Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases
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What Is New in Candida Infections? T2Candida, Antifungal Stewardship, and Candida auris
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 12 - Trang 1-12 - 2020
We review T2Candida panel performance in diagnosing invasive candidiasis, potential roles of T2Candida, and other culture-independent tests in patient management and antifungal stewardship, and diagnosis and treatment of infections by Candida auris, which has emerged globally as a cause of nosocomial outbreaks. In 2 multicenter trials, T2Candida was 90% sensitive and 98% specific for diagnosing ca......
Improving Diagnostic and Laboratory Capacity Helps in Control of Infection: an Indian Perspective
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 12 - Trang 112-121 - 2020
To appraise the evidence and recommendations from published medical literature about the importance of clinical microbiology laboratory services in the prevention and control of infection in community and in the healthcare setting especially from the Indian perspective. Effective infection prevention and control (IPC) is not possible without a functioning microbiology laboratory. Basic microbiolog......
Care Outcomes in People Living with HIV and Cancer
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 13 - Trang 83-99 - 2021
The evolving epidemiology of people living with HIV (PLWH) shows growing trends towards age-related conditions and diseases. As antiretroviral therapies (ART) have improved, AIDS-related cancers have declined but non-AIDS-related cancers are on the rise. Despite advances in HIV care, there continues to be significant health outcome disparities between PLWH with cancer compared to the general popul......
Moving to a Dengue Preventive Treatment Through New Vaccines
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 9 - Trang 347-355 - 2017
Dengue fever is a viral disease with no curative treatment. However, symptomatic treatment exists to alleviate the fever and provide analgesia to the multiple types of pain mainly headache, arthralgia, myalgia, and retro-ocular pain. Antiviral drugs to interfere with the process of viral replication are still under investigation. In the past, homeopathic treatment has been tried as well, with no s......
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 10 - Trang 17-27 - 2018
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is one of the core elements of infection prevention and control, but in many resource-limited countries its implementation is absent or suboptimal. There is inadequate information on the best model for an AMS program. AMS should be adapted to each region according to sociocultural dimensions, financing, and antimicrobial resistance. Many of antimicrobials prescribed......
Malaria Therapeutic Paradigm: An Evolution Towards Commercial Drug Delivery Technology
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - - 2024
Malaria and other parasitic infections pose serious health risks to millions of people worldwide each year. Oral medication is a crucial component in a multi-prolonged approach to effectively managing malaria. The use of oral antimalarial medications is essential for both treating and preventing malaria. They are essential because of their effectiveness in focusing on the different phases involved......
Treatment of Tropical and Travel Related Rickettsioses
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 8 - Trang 42-56 - 2016
Infections with organisms of the genera Rickettsia and Orientia are undifferentiated in regard to their manifesting signs and symptoms. Hence, a high degree of suspicion is required when a patient has a compatible illness coupled with exposure to potential vectors. Confirmatory diagnosis is usually retrospective, as it is obtained through serologic methods to determine seroconversion or a fourfold......
Henipavirus Infection: Natural History and the Virus-Host Interplay
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 10 - Trang 197-216 - 2018
The review summarizes the history of the emergence of the Henipviruses, provides a general introduction of their molecular biology and the efforts to develop antiviral treatment strategies, including the successful development of a veterinary vaccine. Paramyxoviridae, genus Henipavirus comprises emerging pathogens detected in Southeast Asia, Australia and Africa. Henipaviruses are enveloped with n......
Clostridium difficile Infection: Current and Emerging Therapeutics
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 7 - Trang 317-334 - 2015
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has been identified as a significant threat to human health in the twenty-first century. Patients with CDI experience diarrhea, gastrointestinal pain, and colonic inflammation that can be life-threatening. Antibiotic therapy is successful at treating the majority of patients with CDI, but an increased number of CDI cases over the last ......
Current Treatment of Mycetoma
Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases - Tập 10 - Trang 389-396 - 2018
The purpose of this review is to update the status of treatment of actinomycetoma and eumycetoma. Specific information is presented to describe the best medical management for uncomplicated and complicated actinomycetic and fungal mycetomas. Localized actinomycetoma that involves the skin without affecting underlying organs is treated with trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole for 3 to 12 months. In exten......
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