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ARTICLE: Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Taking Isoniazid Preventive Therapy During the First Trimester AUTHORS: Amita Gupta, Michael D Hughes, Jorge Leon Cruz, Anchalee… Read More »Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Taking Isoniazid Preventive Therapy During the First Trimester
ARTICLE: US Guidelines Fall Short on Short-Course Tuberculosis-Preventive Therapy AUTHORS: Sonya Krishnan, Richard E Chaisson JOURNAL: Clin Infect Dis. 2024 Mar 20;78(3):514-517. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad659. Abstract The provision of… Read More »US Guidelines Fall Short on Short-Course Tuberculosis-Preventive Therapy
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams from the Office of Johns Hopkins Physicians. Clinicians and care teams… Read More »2023 Clinical Awards for Physicians and Care Teams
ARTICLE: What is next for BCG revaccination to prevent tuberculosis? AUTHORS: Richard G White, Andrew J Fiore-Gartland, Willem A Hanekom, Johan Vekemans, Alberto L Garcia-Basteiro, Gavin Churchyard, Molebogeng X Rangaka, Mike Frick, Marcel… Read More »What is next for BCG revaccination to prevent tuberculosis?
ARTICLE: CD4+ T cells with latent HIV-1 have reduced proliferative responses to T cell receptor stimulation AUTHORS: Joshua T Kufera, Ciara Armstrong, Fengting Wu, Anushka Singhal, Hao Zhang, Jun Lai, Hannah… Read More »CD4+ T cells with latent HIV-1 have reduced proliferative responses to T cell receptor stimulation
ARTICLE: Implementation of an Antibiotic Stewardship Program in Long-term Care Facilities Across the US AUTHORS: Morgan J Katz, Pranita D Tamma, Sara E Cosgrove, Melissa A Miller, Prashila Dullabh, Therese… Read More »Implementation of an Antibiotic Stewardship Program in Long-term Care Facilities Across the US
ARTICLE: Neutralizing antibodies evolve to exploit vulnerable sites in the HCV envelope glycoprotein E2 and mediate spontaneous clearance of infection AUTHORS: Nicole Frumento, Ariadne Sinnis-Bourozikas,… Read More »Neutralizing antibodies evolve to exploit vulnerable sites in the HCV envelope glycoprotein E2 and mediate spontaneous clearance of infection
ARTICLE: Bispecific antibodies promote natural killer cell-mediated elimination of HIV-1 reservoir cells AUTHORS: Nathan L Board, Zhe Yuan, Fengting Wu, Milica Moskovljevic, Meghana Ravi, Srona Sengupta, Sung Soo Mun, Francesco R Simonetti, Jun… Read More »Bispecific antibodies promote natural killer cell-mediated elimination of HIV-1 reservoir cells
ARTICLE: Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community AUTHORS: Emily A Kendall, Peter… Read More »Decline in prevalence of tuberculosis following an intensive case finding campaign and the COVID-19 pandemic in an urban Ugandan community
ARTICLE: Hepatitis C in Black Individuals in the US: A Review AUTHORS: Oluwaseun Falade-Nwulia, Sharon M Kelly, Sasraku Amanor-Boadu, Benedicta Nneoma Nnodum, Joseph K Lim,… Read More »Hepatitis C in Black Individuals in the US: A Review