Treatment of Syphilis With Doxycycline in a Pregnant Woman Unable to Be Desensitized to Penicillin.

A pregnant woman with a non-IgE-mediated penicillin allergy was treated for syphilis with doxycycline with resolution of infection and no evidence of adverse outcome for mother or infant.

The Problem of the Pannus: Physician Preference Survey and a Review of the Literature on Cesarean Skin Incision in Morbidly Obese Women.

Objective: This study aims to determine preferences of a nationally representative sample of obstetrician/gynecologists (OB/GYNs) regarding cesarean delivery (CD) incision practices for women with morbid obesity (body mass index ≥ 40 kg/m(2)).

Study Design: We conducted an online survey using the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists database. We compared physician demographics, practice characteristics, and CD incision type preference.

Discrete regulatory regions control early and late expression of D-Pax2 during external sensory organ development.

The transcription factor D-Pax2 is required for the correct differentiation of several cell types in Drosophila sensory systems. While the regulation of its expression in the developing eye has been well studied, little is known about the mechanisms by which the dynamic pattern of D-Pax2 expression in the external sensory organs is achieved. Here we demonstrate that early activation of D-Pax2 in the sensory organ lineage and its maintenance in the trichogen and thecogen cells are governed by separate enhancers.

Self-report of current and prior antiretroviral drug use in comparison to the medical record among HIV-infected patients receiving primary HIV care.

Objective: Patient antiretroviral (ARV) therapy knowledge is essential for regimen adherence, successful therapeutic response, and minimization of resistance evolution. Moreover, a complete and accurate patient ARV history is needed to construct efficacious and tolerable future regimens. In this study we assessed the ability of HIV-infected patients receiving care in a university infectious diseases clinic to accurately recall current and past ARVs.