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Air pollution affects liver health and can cause fibrosis, according to findings published in the Journal of Hepatology.

Though it is still in development, a blood test may be able to detect pancreatic cancer in early stages, according to a proof of concept study published in Cancer Prevention Research.

Having HIV puts patients co-infected with hepatitis C at far higher risk. A Baltimore team looked at using statins to slow the course of the liver disease.

Using "big data" a research team from the University of Chicago and other institutions found that where infectious disease training programs are more common, patients with HIV/AIDS do better.

Consults with infectious disease specialists improved outcomes for patients with SAB, a Canadian team reports.

Percutaneous liver biopsy is a proven way to rate the fibrosis stage both in hepatitis in chronic hepatitis C patients and hepatitis B patients. But it is uncomfortable for patients, risks complications and is prone to assembling errors. Reporting at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA, Tuma Demirdal, DR, and colleagues at the Katip Celebi University in Izmir, Turkey compared these invasive tests with non-invasive methods.

Infection with candida can be fatal. Reporting at ID Week 2015, a team from South Korea reported that C.tropicalis is the predominant cause of persistent infection.

Tea time was hazardous at a Tokyo pediatric hospital. In a cautionary tale for other hospitals, Kenta Ito, MD and colleagues reporting at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA, said researchers found carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae (CRE) in a contaminated tea dispenser.

Eye banks are generally thought to be a safe place to get tissue for corneal transplant. But a New Hampshire team reporting at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA said they found two post-operative candida infections in corneal transplant recipients .

In ethnically diverse groups of hospital workers latent tuberculosis infection may need to be addressed. Exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is higher in health care workers who were not born in the US. Reporting at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, Cal, researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center said the hospital had more success with some treatment regimens for such workers than with others.

Although there was widespread circulation of influenza viruses that were antigenically drifted from the vaccine virus, last year's flu vaccine appears to have been effective in preventing severe illness requiring hospitalization.

Researchers have identified GS-5734 (a prodrug of adenine nucleotide analog) as an inhibitor of pathogenic filoviruses, such as the Ebola virus.

Test performs comparably to standard reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assays using whole blood and buccal swab specimens.

Study results show there are minimal drug-drug interactions between tenofovir alafenamide-based antiretroviral regimens for HIV and ledipasvir/sofosbuvir combination treatment for hepatitis C.

Treatment simplification maintains viral suppression and reduces proteinuria, potentially improving treatment adherence.

Treatment-experienced patients with HIV who switched to a tenofovir alafenamide-based treatment regimen maintained excellent virologic suppression while exhibiting significant improvements in both bone and renal safety.

IDWeek has become much more integrated and does an excellent job in helping specialists take their shared information to make their clinical practices better.

In 1992 the European Committee For Treatment And Research in Multiple Sclerosis met in Barcelona with 200 people in attendance. Twenty three years later the same conference was held in the same city with more than 9000 people in attendance and more than 1000 abstracts submitted.

While many areas of multiple sclerosis treatment have made progress in recent years working to help patients through issues with cognition is still an inexact science though work is being done to correct that.

The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases reports promising preclinical results on an antiviral for Ebola. In findings presented at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, CA, Travis Warren, PhD, a principal investigator said a collaboration with Gilead on a compound known as GS-5734 completely protected rhesus monkeys after they were infected with the virus.

In the UK's National Health Service, physicians are "bare below the elbows" meaning they wear scrubs and not white coats, dress shirts and ties. At ID Week, in an entertaining but serious debate, two infection control specialists tackled the question of whether US physicians should also go bare.

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The Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's use of less intensive immunosuppressants contributes to the fewer incidences of infectious disease complications in transplant patients.

Nine million US children have not been vaccinated for measles, raising concerns that there could be major outbreaks of the illness, researchers said at ID Week 2015.

Neurologists seeing patients with seizures who are from developing countries in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and other countries with much poverty and poor sanitation should be on the lookout for neurocysticercosis, a condition related to exposure to tapeworms.

As a medical epidemiologist for Long-term Care in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nimalie Stone ensures seven core elements of stewardship are maintained throughout longterm care: leadership commitment, accountability, drug expertise, action, tracking, reporting, and education.

Nursing homes of today are what hospitals looked like 10 or 15 years ago.

Enterovirus D68 caused hundreds of hospitalizations and five deaths across the US in 2014. It left many mysteries, including why so many people got it since a CDC study showed the US populace is basically immune the virus, one discovered in 1962. Why it was linked to paralysis in some children is also unclear. But three experts at ID Week 2015 today agreed, EV-D68 will be back.

Patients on non-recommended treatment regimens are less likely to achieve viral suppression and more likely to report side effects.

Researchers report that waiting more than 2 years between HIV screenings is associated with double the rate of AIDS by CD4+ criteria at the time of HIV diagnosis when compared with more frequent testing.