A study led by researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago has found that combining acyclovir—a commonly prescribed topical herpes medication—with particles of activated carbon improves efficacy of the drug. ...
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Researchers have been successful in increasing HIV treatment success rates by almost 18 percent.
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Among several infectious disease terms to enter the public lexicon, superspreading events continue to make headlines years after the first cases of the COVID-19 pandemic. How features of the SARS-CoV2 virus lead to some events ...
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A trio of infectious diseases specialists with Global Health Impact Group, working with a doctor from Switzerland, has found evidence suggesting that people infected with the HIV virus who have a viral load below 1,000 cpy/mL ...
COVID-19 remains stubbornly inconsistent. More than a million people have died and 35 million have been diagnosed, but a large fraction of people infected with the coronavirus—about 45%, according to recent estimates—show ...
Oct 14, 2020
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(Medical Xpress) -- This weekend at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Chicago, Illinois, researchers from two different study groups, one on the east coast and one on the west coast, ...
Currently, three new variants of the virus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are creating concern. They include:
Jan 25, 2021
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Antiretroviral therapy has had an enormous impact on treating HIV infections around the world. The millions of people currently taking these treatments under medical supervision can reasonably expect to reduce their viral ...
Sep 26, 2022
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Breakthrough infections. Increased transmission. New mask recommendations and mandates. The Delta variant is fueling COVID-19 cases across the U.S., and raising questions about what this all means for the course of the pandemic.
Aug 5, 2021
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COVID patients exhale high numbers of virus during the first eight days after symptoms start, as high as 1,000 copies per minute, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
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