PURPOSE to compare the efficacy of tinidazole and cephazolin on the febrile and infectious morbidity of post vaginal and abdominal hysterectomy antibiotic prophylaxis. METHODS randomized clinical study, where women admitted to hospital for hysterectomy were randomly allocated in one of the following antibiotic prophylaxis groups: Group C (2 g of IV cephazolin in the anesthetic induction); Gro...

Transmissions of HIV have occurred after exposure to people in the pre-antibody period (Peterman et al., 1985) . The latent period (i .e ., from infection to infectiousness) for HIV infection is short enough to be ignored in a model. The infectious period is unknown, but the virus seems to persist in the host indefinitely since it can be isolated from the blood for many years after the infectio...

A. Safdar (ed.), Principles and Practice of Cancer Infectious Diseases, Current Clinical Oncology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-644-3_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract The risk of infection among allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (aHSCT) recipients is determined by patient age, underlying disease, the complications that occurred during preceding treatment regimens, ...

The population dynamics of infectious diseases occasionally undergo rapid qualitative changes, such as transitions from annual to biennial cycles or to irregular dynamics. Previous work, based on the standard seasonally forced 'susceptible-exposed-infectious-removed' (SEIR) model has found that transitions in the dynamics of many childhood diseases result from bifurcations induced by slow chang...

We discuss the epidemic network model with infectious force in latent and infected period. We obtain the basic reproduction number and analyze the globally dynamic behaviors of the diseasefree equilibrium when the basic reproduction number is less than one. The effects of various immunization schemes are studied. Finally, the final sizes relation is derived for the network epidemic model. The d...

During a 5-year period, data from all infectious disease (ID) consultations were recorded in a computerized database, which included 9068 new and 4937 additional consultations. The purpose of these 14,005 consultations was therapy (for 58%), diagnosis (for 13%), both (for 24%), and prophylaxis (for 4%); 51% were performed at the bedside, and the remainder were by discussion (19%) or telephone (...

three subheadings including treatment, prevention and control and diagnosis methods got the most priorities, respectively. although about half of the priorities are related to two subheadings including treatment and diagnosis methods, research priorities of prevention and control methods (22% of all priorities) indicate the importance of prevention for clinicians who gave scores to the titles. ...

A classic model of infectious disease transmission was developed during the 1930s by Lowell J. Reed and Wade Hamptom Frost of Johns Hopkins. Because the model is simple to explain and provides valuable insights, we will discuss it at this time. In the classical Reed-Frost model, we assume a fixed population of size N . At each time, there are a certain number of cases of disease, C, and a certa...