Bacterial Diseases in Warm Climates - Related Resources

Cochrane reviews

• The licensed Ty21a and Vi polysaccharide vaccines are efficacious against typhoid fever. The new and unlicensed Vi-rEPA vaccine is as efficacious and may confer longer immunity Vaccines for Preventing Typhoid Fever.
• Prednisolone appears not to improve nerve function in patients with sensory impairment in leprosy Corticosteroids for Nerve Damage in Leprosy.
• Decompressionsurgery as add-on treatment to oral prednisolone seems not to be beneficial in the treatment of nerve damage in leprosy, but the evidence is insufficient Decompressive Surgery for Treating Nerve Damage in Leprosy.
• Thalidomide and clofazimine may have some effect in the treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum Interventions for Erythema Nodosum Leprosum.

Other Internet resources

• CDC Plague site http://www.cdc.gov/plague/healthcare/index.html
• Cunha B. Anthrax. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/212127-overview
• Minnaganti V, Cunha B. Plague. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/235627-overview
• Al-Nassir W, Lisgaris M. Brucellosis. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/213430-overview
• Dorsainvil P, Cunha B. Relapsing Fever. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/227272-overview
• Gompf S, Velez A. Leptospirosis. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/220563-overview
• Smith D, Ramachandra T. Leprosy. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/220455-overview
• Ake J, Scarfone R, Whitman D. Rickettsialpox. eMedicine http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/227956-overview

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