Infection

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A health-education program for day-care centers. 
  • A kernel for the Tropical Disease Initiative. 
  • A medical-toxicological view of tattooing. 
  • A quality improvement program for hemodialysis vascular access. 
  • Abnormalities of leukocyte chemotaxis in human disease. 
  • Acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease in man. 
  • Adenosine deaminase deficiency in adults. 
  • Advances in the correction of immunodeficiency by bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Alterations of the X-linked lymphoproliferative disease gene SH2D1A in common variable immunodeficiency syndrome. 
  • An analysis of antenatal tests to detect infection in preterm premature rupture of the membranes. 
  • Animal models of sudden unexplained death. 
  • Antibodies to DNA: infection or genetics? 
  • Antigen-specific T-lymphocyte function after cord blood transplantation. 
  • Association of leukocyte-depleted blood transfusions with infectious complications after cardiac surgery. 
  • Basiliximab decreases the incidence of acute rejection after intestinal transplantation. 
  • Bronchiectasis and bronchopulmonary sequestration. 
  • Causes of death in schizophrenia and manic-depression. 
  • Characteristics and current practice of parenteral nutrition in hospitalized patients. 
  • Chorioamnionitis: is continuation of antibiotic therapy necessary after cesarean section? 
  • Clinical Images: a not-so crystal-clear ankle mass. 
  • Clinical predictors of major infections after cardiac surgery. 
  • Comment on "Inflammatory exposure and historical changes in human life-spans". 
  • Comparative effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator versus defibrillator therapy alone: a cohort study. 
  • Comparison of the efficacy of IGIV-C, 10% (caprylate/chromatography) and IGIV-SD, 10% as replacement therapy in primary immune deficiency. A randomized double-blind trial. 
  • Complications of axillary lymph node dissection for carcinoma of the breast: a report based on a patient survey. 
  • Creatine kinase brain isoenzyme: relationship of cerebrospinal fluid concentration to the neurologic condition of newborns and cellular localization in the human brain. 
  • Cyclosporine or cyclosporine plus methylprednisolone for prophylaxis of graft-versus-host disease: a prospective, randomized trial. 
  • Development, implementation, and impact of acceptability criteria for serologic tests for infectious diseases. 
  • Differences in morbidity and mortality with percutaneous versus open surgical drainage of postoperative intra-abdominal infections: a review of 686 cases. 
  • Discriminative value of inflammatory biomarkers for suspected sepsis. 
  • Early-life infection is a vulnerability factor for aging-related glial alterations and cognitive decline. 
  • Early-life programming of later-life brain and behavior: a critical role for the immune system. 
  • Effects of granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor produced in Chinese hamster ovary cells (regramostim), Escherichia coli (molgramostim) and yeast (sargramostim) on priming peripheral blood progenitor cells for use with autologous bone marrow after high-dose chemotherapy. 
  • Endoscopic sphincterotomy complications and their management: an attempt at consensus. 
  • Enhanced bactericidal activity of phagocytes from patients with chronic granulomatous disease in the presence of sulphisoxazole. 
  • Etiologies of illness among patients meeting integrated management of adolescent and adult illness district clinician manual criteria for severe infections in northern Tanzania: implications for empiric antimicrobial therapy. 
  • Etiology and complications of thrombocytopenia in hospitalized medical patients. 
  • Four-cycle high-dose therapy with hematopoietic support for metastatic breast cancer: no improvement in outcomes compared with single-course high-dose therapy. 
  • Glycosylated hemoglobin levels and outcome in non-diabetic cardiac surgery patients. 
  • How cytokines leave their mark: the role of the placenta in developmental programming of brain and behavior. 
  • IgG and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies following treatment with infliximab plus methotrexate in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis. 
  • Immunity of patients surviving 20 to 30 years after allogeneic or syngeneic bone marrow transplantation. 
  • Immunization and MS: a summary of published evidence and recommendations. 
  • Impact of preoperative neurological status on perioperative morbidity associated with anterior and posterior cervical fusion. 
  • Increased serum levels of macrophage colony-stimulating factor in ovarian cancer. 
  • Infection and cyclosporine. 
  • Infection in the diabetic. 
  • Infections during peginterferon/ribavirin therapy are associated with the magnitude of decline in absolute lymphocyte count: results of the IDEAL study. 
  • Infectious and bleeding complications in patients with glycogenosis Ib. 
  • Infectious complications in extended criteria heart transplantation. 
  • Infectious complications of treatment with biologic agents. 
  • Infectious disease models in zebrafish. 
  • Infectious morbidity in long-term survivors of allogeneic marrow transplantation is associated with low CD4 T cell counts. 
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients' Willingness to Accept Medication Risk to Avoid Future Disease Relapse. 
  • Information technology for optimizing the management of infectious diseases. 
  • Instrinsic defect of the polymorphonuclear leucocyte resulting in impaired chemotaxis and phagocytosis. 
  • Intraepithelial lymphocytes: exploring the Third Way in immunology. 
  • Intravenous iron exposure and mortality in patients on hemodialysis. 
  • Is there a transfusion effect in combined pancreas-kidney transplantation? 
  • Late complications of allogeneic and autologous marrow transplantation. 
  • Levels of vaginal secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor are decreased in women with lower reproductive tract infections. 
  • Long-term results of liver transplantation for biliary atresia. 
  • Low plasma concentrations of retinol and alpha-tocopherol in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: the effect of mucositis and the risk of infection. 
  • Medical waste management. Federal perspective and North Carolina program. 
  • Modeling infectious disease in mice: co-adaptation and the role of host-specific IFNgamma responses. 
  • Myeloid Cells in the Central Nervous System. 
  • Neonatal-perinatal infections: an update. 
  • Nephrogenic systemic fibrosis: possible association with a predisposing infection. 
  • Novel risk factors for stroke: homocysteine, inflammation, and infection. 
  • Nurses' guide to early detection of umbilical arterial catheter complications in infants. 
  • Obesity predicts increased overall complications following pancreas transplantation. 
  • PROLONGED RUPTURE OF FETAL MEMBRANES. 
  • Paraprosthetic-duodenal fistula involving a mesocaval shunt. 
  • Parenteral glutamine supplementation in critical illness: a systematic review. 
  • Pathogen-specific loss of host resistance in mice lacking the IFN-gamma-inducible gene IGTP. 
  • Pathogenic mechanisms of vessel damage in vasculitis syndromes. 
  • Patients aged > or = 70 are at high risk for neutropenic infection and should receive hemopoietic growth factors when treated with moderately toxic chemotherapy. 
  • Patterns of chemotherapy-associated toxicity and supportive care in US oncology practice: a nationwide prospective cohort study. 
  • Peptic ulcer disease following renal transplantation. 
  • Periodontal disease: a model for the study of inflammation. 
  • Perioperative cardiovascular mortality in noncardiac surgery: validation of the Lee cardiac risk index. 
  • Perioperative use of arginine-supplemented diets: a systematic review of the evidence. 
  • Pregnancy in transplant recipients. 
  • Pseudotumor with superimposed periprosthetic infection following metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty: a case report. 
  • Rapid histological staining procedures for material from immune-suppressed patients. 
  • Rates of infectious disease consultations in hospitals of different sizes and types, 1986-1987. 
  • Recognition of early mortality in multiple myeloma by a prediction matrix. 
  • Recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor therapy for patients with neutropenia and/or neutrophil dysfunction secondary to glycogen storage disease type 1b. 
  • Recovery from an acute infection in C. elegans requires the GATA transcription factor ELT-2. 
  • Reduced CSF leak in complete calvarial reconstructions of microvascular decompression craniectomies using calcium phosphate cement 
  • Reduced dose intravenous immunoglobulin does not decrease transplant-related complications in adults given related donor marrow allografts. 
  • Reducing hospital morbidity and mortality following esophagectomy. 
  • Religion and medicine IV: religion, physical health, and clinical implications. 
  • Review of 54 patients with complete DiGeorge anomaly enrolled in protocols for thymus transplantation: outcome of 44 consecutive transplants. 
  • Risk factors for development of systemic lupus erythematosus: allergies, infections, and family history. 
  • Role of immune stimulation in the etiology of multiple myeloma: a case control study. 
  • Safety of Intravenous Iron in Hemodialysis: Longer-term Comparisons of Iron Sucrose Versus Sodium Ferric Gluconate Complex. 
  • Second Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Patients with Fanconi Anemia and Bone Marrow Failure. 
  • Serum immunoglobulins. II. Levels in children subject to recurrent infection. 
  • Signaling role of hemocytes in Drosophila JAK/STAT-dependent response to septic injury. 
  • Significance of diabetes on morbidity and mortality following cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy. 
  • Skewing of the population balance of lymphoid and myeloid cells by secreted and intracellular osteopontin. 
  • Snookered! Facial infection secondary to occult foreign body. 
  • Splenectomy as a Destination: Improving Quality of Care Among Asplenic Veterans Through a Travel Clinic. 
  • Stroke location, characterization, severity, and outcome in mitral vs aortic valve endocarditis. 
  • Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (SPLIT): year 2000 outcomes. 
  • Subacute bacterial endocarditis. 
  • Supportive care of the marrow transplant recipient: the Seattle Experience. 
  • Surgically placed left ventricular leads provide similar outcomes to percutaneous leads in patients with failed coronary sinus lead placement. 
  • Sustained Release of Antibiotics From Injectable and Thermally Responsive Polypeptide Depots 
  • The Neurostimulation Appropriateness Consensus Committee (NACC) Recommendations for Infection Prevention and Management. 
  • The association between immunodeficiency and the development of autoimmune disease. 
  • The complement system in host defense and inflammation. 
  • The immunologic constant of rejection. 
  • The management of chronic graft-versus-host disease. 
  • The risk of risk-adjustment measures for perioperative spine infection after spinal surgery. 
  • The role of natural regulatory T cells in infection. 
  • The use of lithium carbonate to reduce infection and leukopenia during systemic chemotherapy. 
  • The use of umbilical cord blood in mismatched related and unrelated hemopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura that is refractory to therapeutic plasma exchange in two patients with occult infection. 
  • Tigecycline: a new glycylcycline antimicrobial. 
  • Tight glycemic control reduces infection and improves neurological outcome in critically ill neurosurgical and neurological patients. 
  • Transfusion of fresh frozen plasma in critically ill surgical patients is associated with an increased risk of infection. 
  • Treatment of intestinal failure: intestinal transplantation. 
  • Trends in Care Practices, Morbidity, and Mortality of Extremely Preterm Neonates, 1993-2012. 
  • Troubleshooting the malfunctioning Scott artificial urinary sphincter. 
  • Two cases of "shunt nephritis". 
  • Two hundred consecutive simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplants with bladder drainage. 
  • Use antimicrobials wisely. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Aballay, Alejandro, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Boulware, L. Ebony, Professor of Medicine, Community and Family Medicine
  • Buckley, Rebecca Hatcher, James Buren Sidbury Professor of Pediatrics, in the School of Medicine, Immunology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Duke Clinical Research Institute
  • Gage, Mark Joseph, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedics
  • MacLeod, Amanda S, Assistant Professor in Dermatology, Immunology
  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • Setton, Lori A., Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  • Taylor, Gregory Alan, Associate Professor in Medicine, Immunology
  • Thomann, Wayne R., Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Woodard, Charles, Associate Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences