Archive: 10/07/2021

Highly mutated SARS-CoV-2 emerged from someone living with advanced HIV

A presentation at this year's European Congress on Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, will discuss the growing evidence that the beta SARS-CoV-2 variant first identified in South ...

Jul 10, 2021

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Study shows both importance of second vaccine dose and updating vaccines to combat new variants of concern

New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) shows the importance of receiving the second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and also the need to constantly review ...

Jul 10, 2021

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Poorer people less likely to be tested for SARS-CoV-2, more likely to be hospitalised, enter ICU and die: study

New research from Switzerland presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), held online this year, shows that people living in poorer neighbourhoods were less likely to ...

Jul 10, 2021

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Trial shows that the antibiotic azithromycin does not prevent mild COVID cases progressing to hospitalization, death

A new study (the ATOMIC2 trial), presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) and published simultaneously in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, shows the antimicrobial ...

Jul 10, 2021

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Common prescription drugs (not themselves antibiotics) may increase risk of developing antibiotic resistance

New research presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) taking place online (9-12 July), suggests that three commonly prescribed classes of drugs that are not themselves ...

Jul 10, 2021

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Surgical predictors of clinical outcome six years following revision ACL reconstruction

Orthopedic surgeons know that knee surgeries that require revisions have inferior outcomes compared with primary surgeries but until now, the reason for this was unknown. Today a team of orthopedic physicians reports that ...

Jul 10, 2021

Quadriceps tendon autograft has lower MRI signal

An analysis of MRI images of the tissue grafts used for patients who underwent surgery to repair the anterior cruciate knee ligament suggests grafts used from the quadriceps may be superior to tissue grafts from the hamstring. ...

Jul 10, 2021

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