Setting Sights on Chlamydia Immunity's Central Paradigm: Can We Hit a Moving Target?

Management of Mycoplasma genitalium infections – can we hit a moving target?

Mycoplasma genitalium is an etiological agent of sexually transmitted infections, but due to its fastidious growth requirements, only a few M. genitalium strains are available for determination of the activity of currently used and new antimicrobial agents.Recent clinical trials have demonstrated that treatment with azithromycin has decreasing efficacy due to an increasing prevalence of macroli...

Preoperative management of antiplatelet drugs for a coronary artery stent: how can we hit a moving target?

BACKGROUND With the advent of percutaneous coronary intervention, specifically the bare metal stent and subsequently, the drug-eluting stent, the scope of interventional cardiology has greatly increased. Aspirin, in combination with a thienopyridine is the present-day cornerstone of oral antiplatelet therapy after coronary artery stent placement. Continuing this chronic antiplatelet therapy, to...

Setting our sights on the stars.

A Method for Target Setting with Share Data

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a mathematical programming technique for evaluatingthe relative efficiency of a set of Decision Making Units (DMUs) and can also be utilized forsetting target. Target setting is one of the important subjects since according to its resultsefficiency can be increased. An important issue to be currently discussed, is to set targetwhile considering share data. The...

How can we improve outcomes of chlamydia control programmes?

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