Findings of a recently updated systematic review support the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation that children infected with HIV should be revaccinated against measles following immune reconstitution with combination antiretroviral therapy (cART).
Dermatologists have not traditionally played a systematic role in recommending and administering immunizations.
Over the study period, significant increases in the number of screening tests, as well as the ratio between the tests and hospital admissions, was observed.
The 2007 and 2008 shingles and varicella vaccination recommendations may have contributed to the declining herpes zoster hospitalization rates in some groups.
During the first eight months of recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) use, there were reports of 4,381 adverse events, 3 percent of which were serious.
A statewide public health emergency was declared in Washington after a measles outbreak near Portland, Oregon, reached 31 cases on Friday.
An ongoing measles outbreak has led to a public health emergency being declared in Clark County, Washington.
At baseline, more symptoms associated with Lyme borreliosis were reported by those with multiple erythema migrans than with solitary erythema migrans.
Investigators examined the incidence of herpes zoster in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa who were and were not exposed to immunomodulation.
Injection drug users are more than 16-fold more likely to develop invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections.
