Background: Reports on antibiotic use often lack complete definitions of the units of
measurement, hampering the comparison of data between hospitals or hospital units …

The annual incidence of leptospirosis in Barbados is approximately 13 severe
cases/100,000. The peak incidence occurs in October to December of each year, coinciding …

Primary HIV can be asymptomatic or result in a severe symptomatic illness. Common
symptoms are pyrexia, pharyngitis, malaise, lethargy, maculopapular rash, mucous …

Introduction: Leptospirosis is a zoonosis with a worldwide distribution affecting almost 160
mammalian species. Dengue, one of the major mosquito‑borne arboviral infections of …

A rapid assay device for the detection of Leptospira-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM)
antibodies was applied on whole blood samples collected from a group of consecutive …

Background: One of the main challenges for clinical research in dengue is the low validity of
clinical diagnosis. Objective: To analyze clinical and laboratory data as predicitve factors of …

It is difficult to assess the proportion of individuals who experience an acute seroconversion
illness after infection with HIV-1. We found that five out of 27 recent HIV-1 seroconverters …

Syndromic management for STD has become a key component of the global response to the
HIV epidemic1, largely due to the Ūndings of a randomized trial in Mwanza (Tanzania). After …

Primaryinfection with the HIV-1 virus manifests itself in various forms. In many patients there
are few, if any, symp-toms whereas in others the infection manifests itself in a febrile illness …

bacter-like organisms: Achromobacter xylosoxidans, Agrobacterium radiobacter, and
Achromobacter group B. Most of the early reports of infections due to these organisms …