Don’t overlook infectious diseases in ICD-9 chapters other than Chapter I

Chapter 9 . Diarrheal Diseases Gerald

Are infectious disease doctors better at caring for infectious diseases than other specialists?

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the article of Schmitt et al reporting that infectious disease (ID) specialist intervention is associated with decreased mortality and lower healthcare costs [1]. As the result of an order of our institution, the second largest in France, we analyzed, using the French diagnosis related group (DRG) 2007–2008 database, the distribution , length of stay (LOS), r...

The role of T helper 9(Th9) against Infectious Diseases

Background and aims: Infectious diseases are disorders caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites .The Th9 subset develops in response to combined signals from TGF-b and IL-4 among a cacophony of other cytokines in an extracellular milieu. T helper 9 (Th9) cells,  as a novel CD4 T cell subset, seem to play a complex role in the outcome of specific immune responses. In thi...

Session 9 : Infectious diseases II

Influenza has a long history characterized by waves of pandemics and epidemics. Although flu epidemics occur nearly every year, pandemics fortunately do not occur very often. However, today we are faced with the potential of an influenza pandemic. An avian influenza virus of the type H5N1, currently causing an epidemic in poultry in Asia, is persistently spreading throughout the globe increasin...

Corticosteroids in Infectious Diseases

Accumulated data based on experiences with curtico,teroids in the management uf infectious disea­ses, have proved that they are very dfective and ,afe drugs provided that are administered properly.  The Corticosteroids arc administered mainly be­c,1usc o; antitoxic, antiimflammatory a11d antiallcrgic effects, the cndotoxius are ncuturalized, generalized body reactions are diminished, damaged t...