Publications by authors named "John M Curtin"

Gonorrhea is the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Rates are increasing, and multiple challenges compound management, including worsening antimicrobial resistance. New therapeutics, enhanced screening and partner notification, and treatment through point-of-care testing and expedited partner therapy, as well as primary prevention efforts provide opportunities for success in combating these trends.

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Leishmaniasis, a chronic and persistent intracellular protozoal infection caused by many different species within the genus , is an unfamiliar disease to most North American providers. Clinical presentations may include asymptomatic and symptomatic visceral leishmaniasis (so-called Kala-azar), as well as cutaneous or mucosal disease. Although cutaneous leishmaniasis (caused by in the United States) is endemic in some southwest states, other causes for concern include reactivation of imported visceral leishmaniasis remotely in time from the initial infection, and the possible long-term complications of chronic inflammation from asymptomatic infection.

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In a large HIV-specialty private practice, patients with undetectable or low-grade-positive viral loads with neuropsychiatric side effects or elevated lipids were switched from efavirenz-to nevirapine-based antiretroviral regimens. This is a retrospective analysis of virologic efficacy and changes in adverse neuropsychiatric effects and serum lipid levels after this switch. Forty patients were evaluated.

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