CDC Guidelines for Tuberculosis Control Debated at Open Meeting

CDC Updates Guidelines for Children’s Lead Exposure

In response to the growing body of scientific evidence about effects of exposure to low levels of lead, 1 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced it is changing its guidelines for children's exposure to the toxic metal, reducing by half the blood lead level at which intervention is recommended. 2 According to CDC spokesman Jay Dempsey, the agency estimates the ch...

The ERS-endorsed official ATS/CDC/IDSA clinical practice guidelines on treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis.

Affiliations: Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Dept of Biomedical Sciences – University of Sassari – Research, Medical Education and Professional Development Unit, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy. University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. German Central Committee against Tuberculosis (DZK), Berlin, Germany. Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK...

CDC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Treatment Guidelines

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) constitute an epidemic of tremendous magnitude, with an estimated 15 million persons acquiring a new STD each year [1]. Effective clinical management of STDs represents a strategic element in prevention of HIV infection and in efforts to improve reproductive and sexual health. Clinicians who evaluate persons with STDs or those at risk for STDs should be awar...

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Primaquine: report from CDC expert meeting on malaria chemoprophylaxis I.

Primaquine phosphate has been used for preventing relapse of Plasmodium vivax and P. ovale malaria since the early 1950s, based on its ability to kill latent (hypnozoite) and developing liver stages of these parasites. There are three uses for primaquine in malaria: radical cure of established infection with P. vivax or P. ovale malaria; presumptive anti-relapse therapy (PART; terminal prophyla...