Infectious Disease

Mononucleosis isn't as contagious as some infections, such as the common cold.

Approximately half of people with HCV don't know they're infected, mainly because they have no symptoms.

Officials with the FDA have approved the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assay for use on DiaSorin’s automated LIAISON XS platform.

Chronic HBV increases the risk of developing liver failure, liver cancer, and cirrhosis.

The model could help researchers and public health officials interpret the significance of existing variants and design tailored public health responses for various scenarios based on a variant’s characteristic.

The smartphone group were nearly 4 times more likely to have their wound infection diagnosed within 7 days of their surgery compared to the routine care group.

Among those who were infected with the delta variant (126), 25% were fully immunized and 38% were unvaccinated, study results show.

Mild dengue fever causes a high fever and flu-like symptoms.

Harvoni is a fixed-dose combination indicated for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus in adults and pediatric patients 3 years of age and older.

Mavyret is indicated for the treatment of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus without cirrhosis or with compensated cirrhosis.

Tonsillitis most commonly affects children between preschool ages and the mid-teenage years.

Investigators from the University of Houston find that 45% of the positive samples were from the soles of shoes.

When it comes to maximizing therapeutic opportunities for the treatment of individuals with toxoplasmosis, pharmacists and other health care professionals understand the value of care coordination.

Labcorp’s collection kit can simultaneously detect the coronavirus and influenza A/B in individuals aged 2 years and older, and results can be determined in 1 to 2 days.

The main factors behind the vaccine hesitancy are the potential adverse effects post-vaccination and effect on their autoimmune conditions, as well as lack of trial data, an analysis shows.

Individuals who used intranasal corticosteroids prior to being infected were about 22% less likely to be hospitalized from severe COVID-19 than those who did not.

T2D is associated with a higher mortality risk linked to the coronavirus than individuals with T1D.

Ten quiz questions to assess your knowledge on common symptoms and treatments for genital herpes.

It demonstrated 93.2% efficacy 14 days afterward and greater than 90% for 4 or more months.

Several studies have shown that a pharmacist’s presence on a sepsis team has a statistically significant impact on patient outcomes, with pharmacists taking on several roles during patient management.

These patients had comparable levels of antibodies to individuals without the disease after a 2-dose course of the vaccination.

Stanford research results show that of nearly 39,000 individuals, just 22 had potential allergic reactions, and all recovered.

Investigators at the IMT School for Advanced Studies say that future rollouts should focus on workers, which would help avoid another lockdown.

PrEP simplifies management of the virus by eliminating the need for immune globulin and decreasing the number of doses needed.

Recent study results show that vitamin D may offer protection against critical disease and death.