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2 days ago · Groundbreaking advancements have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including single-dose therapies, improved treatments for genital herpes and HPV, and highly accurate urine tests for chlamydia. Some STDs, such as HPV, may clear up on their own. Regular sexual health checks are necessary due to ...
5 days ago · The investigators estimated median time to successful response and used unadjusted logistic regression to identify factors associated with treatment success. Data on treatment outcome were available for 445 patients with primary syphilis, of whom 420 (94.4%) received penicillin and 25 (5.6%) received doxycycline or tetracycline.
4 days ago · Common canine tick-borne diseases: Hepatozoonosis. Myalgia, reluctance to stand or move, lethargy, decreased appetite, fever, unexplained weight loss, muscle wasting, and mild-to-moderate anemia, ocular and nasal discharge Severely debilitating and often fatal Infected dogs rarely show signs of illness.
3 days ago · Many serious cases of COVID-19 result from the body’s immune system overreacting to the coronavirus that causes the disease and, in turn, attacking healthy tissues and cells. This can cause ...
2 days ago · Sexually transmitted infection. A sexually transmitted infection ( STI ), also referred to as a sexually transmitted disease ( STD) and the older term venereal disease ( VD ), is an infection that is spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex, oral sex, or sometimes manual sex. [1] [5] [6] STIs often do not initially ...
4 days ago · Delta gD-2 (∆gD-2) is a vaccine candidate based on an HSV-2 virus genetically deleting glycoprotein D (gD-2). HSV529 (HSV15) is a vaccine candidate classified as a replication-defective virus, meaning the virus possesses all the wild-type HSV virus components except two proteins, UL5 and UL29, involved in viral DNA replication.
3 days ago · The Drug Surveillance Unit monitors overdose trends in Georgia and provides drug surveillance data to the public and to partners working to end the opioid epidemic. This data is also used to detect and respond to rapid increases, or clusters, of overdoses, such as the Counterfeit Percocet-Related Overdose Cluster in Macon during June 2017.
