Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from health care workers

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A rising number of foreign-born health care workers play a crucial role in health care delivery in the US, but one consequence of this is that an increasing proportion of US health care providers are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Recommended approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis infection in foreign-born care workers are the same as those for workers born in the US, but applying such recommendations to foreign-born persons can be complicated.

Health Care and Social Assistance, HEALTH SERVICES, Medical Personnel, Health aspects, Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Spinal epidural abscess

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The pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, common diagnostic and therapeutic pitfalls, and outcome of bacterial spinal epidural abscess are addressed. A diagnosis of spinal epidural abscess is suspected on the basis of clinical findings and supported by laboratory data and imaging studies but could be confirmed only by drainage.

Care and treatment, Abscess

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Current concepts: treatment of infections associated with surgical implants

Article Abstract:

Infections that are associated with a variety of surgical implants have clinical and economic consequences. The nature and the number of stages of surgical intervention vary according to the type of the implant.

Economic aspects, Complications and side effects, Implants, Artificial, Prostheses and implants, Prosthesis

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