Objective The purpose of this paper is to review information regarding the current guidelines
for the clinical laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease as set forth by the Centers for Disease …

Ebolaviruses have gained much attention recently due to the outbreak from 2014 through
2016. The related marburgviruses also have been responsible for large outbreaks with high …

Malaria is a serious mosquito-borne parasitic disease and is one of the most significant
causes of death worldwide. In this report we discuss a case of a 26-year-old female healthcare …

Objective Hand hygiene practice is important in health care settings to reduce the spread of
infection. To date, no hand hygiene study has been conducted with doctors of chiropractic …

This is an update to my 2016 article. 1 In July 2019, the Food and Drug Administration
cleared certain enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) for use in a modified 2-tiered testing algorithm (…

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a rare hyper-inflammatory syndrome that
may be inherited or acquired. HLH may be a complication of infectious disease, including …

A 46-year-old male patient initially presented to the ED with purulent otitis media and was
discharged with empirically prescribed oral and otic ciprofloxacin. Cultures of the otic …

Recurrent respiratory infections ( RRI s) are frequent in children and are characterized by
more than 6 airway infections in 1 year or more than 1 upper airway infection per month in the …

Background Grass pollen‐related seasonal allergic rhinoconjunctivitis ( SAR g) is clinically
heterogeneous in severity, comorbidities, and response to treatment. The component‐…

Allergic rhinitis (AR) and adenoid hypertrophy (AH) are common in children and are often
associated with each other. Recent studies have shown improvement of respiratory symptoms …