Progress with Scale-Up of HIV Viral Load Monitoring - Seven Sub-Saharan African Countries, January 2015-June 2016.

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends viral load testing as the preferred method for monitoring the clinical response of patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection to antiretroviral therapy (ART) (1). Viral load monitoring of patients on ART helps ensure early diagnosis and confirmation of ART failure and enables clinicians to take an appropriate course of action for patient management. When viral suppression is achieved and maintained, HIV transmission is substantially decreased, as is HIV-associated morbidity and mortality (2).

Carbon dioxide laser-treatment of resistant verrucae vulgaris: retrospective analysis.

Background: Verrucae are a very common dermatological problem that can be both painful and bothersome to the individual as well as costly to the health care system. In some cases verrucae can be notoriously resistant to therapy.

Objective: To determine the cure rate, side effect profile, and overall satisfaction with CO2 laser treatment of recalcitrant verrucae vulgaris.

Comparative studies on the tolerance to photoinduced cutaneous inflammatory reactions by psoralen and rose bengal.

The photochemotherapeutic value of topical 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) plus UVA irradiation has been well recognized. The phototoxicity associated with psoralen plus UVA (PUVA) therapy is hallmarked by an increase in vascular permeability (iVP), the accumulation of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (aPMN) and erythema formation in situ. Rose bengal (RB) plus UVA-VIS light (320-700 nm) produces a similar acute inflammatory response, but without immediate or delayed erythema and perceptible edema.

Modulation of 8-methoxypsoralen-photoinduced cutaneous inflammatory reactions by various chemotherapeutic agents in vivo.

Exposure of albino rabbits to UVA-VIS (320-700 nm) radiation after the topical application of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) cream is associated with acute cutaneous inflammatory reactions in situ. In the present studies the effects of various agents on 8-MOP plus light induced cutaneous inflammatory response viz. increase in vascular permeability (iVP), accumulation of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (aPMN) and erythema formation were investigated.