Barriers to maintaining high-level isolation units in the US
The authors were interested in the barriers to maintaining and applying capabilities of US high-level isolation units (HLIUs) used during the Ebolavirus disease outbreak. During…
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Dr Grant Hill-CawthorneProspective case series of infants with laboratory-confirmed congenital Zika virus syndrome
The authors present a prospective case series of 87 infants with laboratory-confirmed congenital Zika virus syndrome (CZS) at the epicenter of the Brazilian Zika outbreak…
Antiretroviral treatment attrition during program expansion in nine African countries
The authors were interested in patient attrition from antiretroviral therapy programmes in Africa. They examined data from 307,144 patients who initiated ART in 5638 successive…
Effect of community neuraminidase inhibitor treatment on risk of hospitalisation
Current evidence suggests neuraminidase inhibitors (NAIs) are effective at reducing mortality of influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infection when given to hospitalised patients with infection but the impact…