Infections with Cryptococcus neoformans in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
It is concluded that the addition of flucytosine to amphotericin neither enhances survival nor prevents relapse, but long-term suppressive therapy appears to benefit these patients.
Laboratory medicine in Africa: a barrier to effective health care.
- C. Petti, C. Polage, T. Quinn, A. Ronald, M. Sande
- MedicineClinical Infectious Diseases
- 1 February 2006
The barriers to implementing consistent testing within this region are explored and the need for a more comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of infectious diseases is illustrated, with an emphasis on making laboratory testing a higher priority is illustrated.
Antibiotic prescribing for children with colds, upper respiratory tract infections, and bronchitis.
- A. Nyquist, R. Gonzales, J. Steiner, M. Sande
- MedicineJAMA
- 18 March 1998
Antibiotic prescribing for children diagnosed as having colds, URIs, and bronchitis, conditions that typically do not benefit from antibiotics, represents a substantial proportion of total antibiotic prescriptions to children in the United States each year.
Principles of appropriate antibiotic use for acute pharyngitis in adults: background.
- R. Cooper, J. Hoffman, M. Sande
- MedicineAnnals of Internal Medicine
- 1 June 2001
The following principles of appropriate antibiotic use for adults with acute pharyngitis apply to immunocompetent adults without complicated comorbid conditions, such as chronic lung or heart…
Toxoplasmosis of the central nervous system in the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
Toxoplasmosis occurs in advanced stages of human immunodeficiency virus infection, and the absence of antitoxoplasma antibodies on immunofluorescence assay does not exclude the diagnosis.
A comparison of amphotericin B alone and combined with flucytosine in the treatment of cryptoccal meningitis.
- J. Bennett, W. Dismukes, D. Alling
- Medicine, BiologyNew England Journal of Medicine
- 19 July 1979
It is concluded that combined flucytosine-amphoericin B therapy is the regimen of choice in cryptococcal meningitis.
Excessive antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections in the United States.
- R. Gonzales, D. Malone, J. Maselli, M. Sande
- MedicineClinical Infectious Diseases
- 15 September 2001
The amount and cost of excessive antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections by primary care physicians are substantial and potential target rates for antibiotic treatment of selected conditions are established.
Outcomes of cryptococcal meningitis in Uganda before and after the availability of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
- A. Kambugu, D. Meya, D. Boulware
- MedicineClinical Infectious Diseases
- 1 June 2008
Significant CM-associated mortality persists, despite the administration of amphotericin B and HIV therapy, because of the high mortality rate before receipt of HAART and because of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome-related complications after HAART initiation.
Antibiotic prescribing for adults with colds, upper respiratory tract infections, and bronchitis by ambulatory care physicians.
- R. Gonzales, J. Steiner, M. Sande
- MedicineJAMA
- 17 September 1997
Although antibiotics have little or no benefit for colds, upper respiratory tract infections, or bronchitis, these conditions account for a sizable proportion of total antibiotic prescriptions for adults by office-based physicians in the United States.
Principles of Appropriate Antibiotic Use for Treatment of Acute Respiratory Tract Infections in Adults: Background, Specific Aims, and Methods
- R. Gonzales, J. Bartlett, M. Sande
- Medicine, BiologyAnnals of Internal Medicine
- 20 March 2001
The need to improve Antibiotic Prescription for Acute Respiratory Infections and the clinical impact of antibiotic-resistant S. pneumoniae on morbidity, mortality, and health care costs in children or adults is highlighted.
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