Epidemiological Features

Combining clinical and epidemiological features with fecal analysis gives important clues to the etiological diagnosis. For example, any patients with diarrheal illness lasting more than 1 day, accompanied by fever, bloody... 

Antimicrobial therapy should be limited to those who have clinical and epidemiologic features of Group A streptococcal pharyngitis with a positive laboratory test. 

Morris, P.D., et al.. Clinical and epidemiological features of neurotoxic shellfish poisoning in North Carolina, Am. J. Public Health, 81, 4, 471, 1991. 

Strong suspicions of dependence should be reported always. Without such signals improvements in drug use will not be initiated there is no such thing as a false signal Work to establish the nature of the causality and other clinical and epidemiological features of drug adverse reaction relationship will always be necessary. 

Henderson, D. A. (1999). Smallpox Clinical and epidemiologic features. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 5, 537-539. 

Uchio E, Takeuchi S. Climcal and epidemiological features of acute folhcular conjunctivitis with special reference to that caused by herpes simplex virus type l.Br J Ophthalmol 2000 89(9) 968-972... 

Hughes RA, Rees JH (1997) Clinical and epidemiologic features of Guillain-Barre syndrome. J Infect Dis 176 Suppl 2 S92- 98. 

Polish, L.B., Gallagher, M., Fields, H.A., Hadler, St.C. Delta hepatitis molecular biology and clinical and epidemiological features. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 1993 6 211-229... 

Davis JP, Chesney PJ, Wand PJ, LaVenture M. Toxic-shock syndrome epidemiologic features, recurrence, risk factors, and prevention. N Engl J Med 1980 303(25) 1429-35. 

Ferris FL III. 1983. Senile macular degeneration Review of epidemiologic features. Am J Epidemiol 118 132-151. 

Antimicrobial treatment should be limited to those who have clinical and epidemiologic features of group A streptococcal pharyngitis with a positive laboratory test. Penicillin is the drug of choice in the treatment of group A streptococcal pharyngitis (Table 107-8). It has the narrowest spectrum of activity, and it is effective, safe, and inexpensive. The only controlled studies that have demonstrated that antimicrobial therapy prevents rheumatic fever were done with procaine penicillin, which was later replaced with benzathine penicillin. " ... 

Slutsker L, Ries AA, Greene KD, et al. Escherichia coli 0157 H7 diarrhea in the United States Clinical and epidemiologic features. Ann Intern Med 1997 126 505-513. 

Marks MI, Pai CH, LaFIeur L, et al. Yersinia enterocolitica gastroenteritis A prospective study of clinical, bacteriologic, and epidemiologic features. J Pediatr 1980 96 26-31. 

Schacker T, Collier AC, Hughes J, et al. Clinical and epidemiologic features of primary HIV infection. Ann Intern Med 1996 125 257-264. 

Davis JP, Chesney PJ, Wand PJ, LaVenture M (1980) Toxic-shock syndrome epidemiologic features, recurrence, risk factors, and prevention. N Engl J Med 303 1429-1435 de Buyser ML, Morvan A, Giimont F, el Solh N (1989) Characterization of Staphylococcus species by libosomal RNA gene restriction patterns. J Gen Microbiol 135 989-999 de la Puente R, Suarez G, Schleifer KH (1985) Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius subsp. 

Carapetis J, Robins-Browne R, Martin D, Shelby-James T, Hogg G Increasing severity of invasive group A streptococcal disease in Australia clinical and molecular epidemiological features and identification of a new virulent M-nontypeable clone. Clin Infect Dis 1995 21 1220-1227. 

Berk, S. L., Verghese, A., Alvarez, S., Hall, K., and Smith, B. (1987). Clinical and epidemiologic features of strongyloidiasis. A prospective study in rural Tennessee. Arch. Intern. Med. 147, 1257-1261. 

Isik, R., Metintas, M., Gibbs, A.R., Metintas, S., Jasani, B., Oner, U., Harmanci, E., Demircan, S., and Isiksoy, S., p53, p21 and metallothionein immunoreactivities in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma correlations with the epidemiological features and prognosis of mesotheliomas with environmental asbestos exposure, Respir. Med., 95, 588-593,2001. 

Hundreds of cases consistent with Q fever were observed in German soldiers in Serbia and southern Yugoslavia during World War II. Outbreaks occurred in the apparent absence of disease in the indigenous population. The disease was most commonly referred to as Balkengrippe infection with C burnetii was not confirmed by laboratory testing, but the clinical and epidemiological features of the illness described were most consistent with Q fe-... 

Dupont HT, Raoult D, Brouqui P, et al. Epidemiologic features and clinical presentation of acute Q fever in hospitalized patients 323 French cases. Am J Med. 1992 93 427-434. 

Mladenovic A., Markovic Z., Grujidc-Sipetic S. and Hyodoh H. Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in Different Races Epidemiologic Features and Morphologic-Clinical Implications Evaluated by CT Aortography. Chapter 6 in Aneurysm , Edited by Yasuo Murai, ISBN 978-953-51-0730-9, Published InTech, 29 August 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license, in subject Medicine. 

Kannel WB, McGee DL. Update on some epidemiologic features of intermittent claudication. The Framingham Study. J Am Geriatr Soc 1985 33 13-18. 

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