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Baddour LM, Wilson WR, Bayer AS, et al. Infective endocarditis Diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Circulation 2005 111(23) 394M34. 

Infectious Diseases Society of America. Practice Guidelines. Available at www.joumals.uchicago.edu/IDSA/guidelines/ accessed November 2005. 

Bisno AL, Gerber MA, Gwaltney JM Jr, et al. Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of group A streptococcal pharyngitis. Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2002 35(2) 113-125. 

From Li JS, Sexton DJ, Mick N, et al. Proposed modifications to the Duke criteria for the diagnosis of infective endocardits. Clin Infect Dis. 2000 30 633-638, with permission. University of Chicago Press. 2000 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All right reserved. 

American Thoracic Society/Centers for Disease Control/Infectious Disease Society of America. Treatment of tuberculosis. Am I Respir Crit Care Med 2003 167 603-662. 

Table 74—2 presents the recommended agents for treatment of community-acquired and complicated intraabdominal infections from the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Surgical Infection Society.21-23 These recommendations were formulated using an evidence-based approach. Most community-acquired infections are mild to moderate, whereas health care-associated infections tend to be more severe and difficult to treat. Table 74-3 presents guidelines for treatment and alternative regimens for specific situations. These are general guidelines there are many factors that cannot be incorporated into such a table. 

Owing to the morbidity associated with these opportunistic infections in HCT recipients, optimal pharmacotherapy for preventing and treating infections in this patient population is critical. In 2000, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published guidelines for preventing these infections among HCT recipients.8 These guidelines were constructed from available data by an expert panel from the CDC, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the American... 

Broad-spectrum IV antibiotics should be initiated or added at the time of the first neutropenic fever under the treatment guidelines endorsed by the Infectious Disease Society of America for management of fever of unknown origin in the neutropenic host.89... 

Fig. 1. Recommendations for the diagnosis and management of enteric infections. Adapted from Guerrant et al. [113], Infectious Diseases Society of America Practice Guidelines for the Management of Infectious Diarrhea.

From Kaplan JE, Masur H, Holmes KK Guidelines hr preventing opportunistic infections among HIV-infected persons-2002 recommendations of the U.S. Public Health Sendee and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. MMWR Recomm Rep 20O2 5 7 (RR-B) i-52. 

Guidelines from the Infectious Disease Society of America, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Heart Association suggest that testing for Group A Streptococcus be done in all patients with signs and symptoms. Only those with a positive test for Group A Streptococcus require antibiotic treatment. 

G. Talbot, J. Bradley, J. Edwards, D. Glibert, M. Scheld and J. Bartlett, Bad Bugs need new drugs an update on the development pipeline from the antimicrobial availability task force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America., Clin. Infect. Dis., 2006, 42, 657. 

For information on the role of infectious diseases in the New World prior to the arrival of Europeans, see C. C. Mann, 1491 New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Knopf, New York, 2005. 

The jet plane has made it easy to travel to and from previously inaccessible parts of the world, for business or vacation. Infectious diseases or agents that transmit these diseases can, therefore, be rapidly transferred to countries in which the population has never encountered the diseases, so that the infection rapidly spreads throughout the population. Such transport of pathogens is reminiscent of the transmission of diseases that were previously unknown in North America but were transported from Africa in the slave ships. For example, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits the virus that causes yellow fever, was probably transported in water barrels on these ships. 

Walsh TJ, Anaissie EJ, Denning DW, Herbrecht R, Kontoyiannis DP, Marr KA, Morrison VA, Segal BH, Steinbach WJ, Stevens DA, van Burik J-A, Wingard JR, Patterson TF. (2008) Treatment of aspergillosis Clinical practice guidelines of the infectious diseases society of America. Clin Infect Dis 46 327-360. 

Malaria. An infectious disease endemic in parts of Africa, Asia, Turkey, the West Indies, Central and South America, and Oceania, caused by protozoa of the genus Plasmodium, and usually transmitted by the bites of infected anopheline mosquitoes. It is characterized by prostration associated with paroxysms of high fever, shaking chills, sweating, anemia, and splenomegaly, which may lead to death. 

American Thoracic Society. American Thoracic Society/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Infectious Diseases Society of America treatment of tuberculosis. Am 1 Respir Crit Care Med 2003 i67 603-662. 

Guidelines for prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected adults and adolescents. Recommendations of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (HIVMA/IDSA). AIDSinfo June 18, 2008. http //Al DSi nfo. n i h. gov... 

Mandell LA et al Infectious Diseases Society of America/American Thoracic Society Consensus guidelines on the management of community-acquired pneumonia in adults. Clin Infect Dis 2007 44 S27. 

The threat of West Nile virus has led government agencies to recommend the use of DEET repellents. West Nile virus is a mosquito-borne infectious disease that is common in Africa, west Asia, and the Middle East it was first detected in North America in 1999. 

Schistosomiasis afflicts more than 200 million people throughout the world, making it by far the most significant flatworm disease and one of the most important infectious diseases in the world. A great majority of those infected are in Africa (Chitsulo et al., 2000, 2004), but the disease is present in Asia and South America as well as Pacific and Caribbean Islands. 

Rex, J. H., Lozano-Chiu, M., Paetznick, V., Khyne, A. T., Nangia, S., Arizmendi, A., Riser, L., Pappas, P. G., and Co-Investigators of the NIAID MSG Candidiasis Subproject. (1998a). 36th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 

Infectious Diseases Society of America (2010) The 10 x 20 Initiative pursuing a global commitment to develop 10 new antibacterial drugs by 2020. Clin Infect Dis 50 1081-1083... 

Boucher HW, Talbot GH, Bradley JS et al (2009) Bad bugs, no drugs no ESKAPE An update from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 48 1-12... 

This table was reproduced with permission from Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, Volume 13, by Apurba K. Bhattacharjee and Alan S. Cross, Vaccines and antibodies in the prevention and treatment of sepsis , pages 355-369, Copyright Elsevier, 1999. 

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