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The American Committee for Vaccinations (U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) has published some recommendations concerning the vaccination program advised in 2010. The advice to be vaccinated is not substantially different from the one in 2009, but some aspects concerning vaccination [...]
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The starting of the sexual activity is often associated with acquired infections because precautions and sanitary measures lack. Some researchers have examined a random sample of 838 girls (between 14 and 19 years of age) participating to the National Health and Nutrition Survey in 2003-2004 [...]
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The presence of fever with no apparent cause is one of the hardest challenges in medicine, so any examinations helping to make a diagnosis is well accepted. In patients affected by HIV, bone marrow biopsy is a usually used tool; but in immunocompetent patients, its importance has not been coded [...]
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During influenza pandemics, pregnant women generally present a greater morbidity and mortality. At the beginning of H1N1 virus pandemic, the CDC have collected the results of all influenza cases confirmed in pregnant women, with the relative evolution and possible complications. Between April 15th [...]
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Given the great diffusion of influenza viruses and the high rate of infection, researchers wondered whether virus transmission can be prevented, not only in hospitals but also in daily life. Some patients affected by influenza (shown through fast test) and their contacts (most of all children) in [...]
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It is supposed that the vaccine against influenza A is available and is distributed among the various health companies within the half of October, but there is still uncertainty on the priorities to be assigned to the various age ranges. The CDC recommend to vaccinate at first the following 5 [...]
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Some CDC researchers have examined the serum used in recent trials on influenza vaccine to determine the prevalence of natural immunity towards H1N1 virus and of antibodies possibly present as a consequence of vaccinations performed in the previous years. The samples taken from 100 children [...]
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There is no unequivocalness about the population undergoing HIV screening: the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force indicates the whole risk population as the addressee of the screening and it is neither in favour nor against the screening applied to the rest of the population. On the contrary, the [...]
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According to previous trials, it was affirmed that influenza vaccination implies a decrease in the risk of catching pulmonary infections in older patients, and according to this affirmation, vaccination is advised for subjects older than a specific age. In Seattle, through a population trial [...]
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After its marketing, the vaccine against herpes zoster is recommended by many infectivologists as a routine practice in the adult older than sixty. In order to answer the question the patient often asks – “Which probability do I have to take the infection?” –, some researchers examined the medical [...]