Spit, Scratch, Splash, Stick
Spit, scratch, splash or stick? Assess HIV exposure risk in the ED, identify when PEP is needed, and start treatment promptly after significant exposure.
Category Infectious Disease
The Mono That Wasn’t
Recognise acute, chronic and advanced HIV in the ED, with practical guidance on testing windows, screening, diagnosis and PJP presentation.
Fifth disease
Erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), is a common manifestation of infection in children characterized by low-grade fever, malaise, facial rash, and later by the spread of a lacy maculopapular rash involving the trunk and limbs.
Continuous beta-lactam infusions
Critical evaluation of continuous infusion of beta-lactam antibiotics (rather than intermittent dosing) in critically ill patients.
Yvonne Barr
Yvonne Margaret (née Barr) Balding (1932 - 2016) was an Irish virologist. Co-discoverer of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) (1964)
Bornholm disease
Acute, transient viral myositis involving intercostal and abdominal muscles associated with Coxsackievirus B. Eponym: Ejner Sylvest (1930)
Necrotising fasciitis
Necrotizing fasciitis: life-threatening soft tissue infection, historically hospital gangrene, term coined by Ben J. Wilson in 1951
John Alsop
John Alsop (1931–), GP who coined "hand-foot-and-mouth disease" and published BMJ reports on outbreaks and ringworm in Birmingham, UK.
Sixth disease
Common viral illness in infants caused by HHV-6. Roseola presents with high fever followed by sudden rash; also known as sixth disease or exanthem subitum.
Fourth disease
Filatov-Dukes disease, or fourth disease, was a proposed childhood exanthem now largely dismissed as a misclassification of rubella or scarlet fever.
Third disease
Mild viral exanthem in children; dangerous in pregnancy. Rubella causes rash and lymphadenopathy, with congenital infection leading to CRS.
Second disease
Scarlet fever (second disease). Contagious GABHS infection in kids under 10 with sore throat or rash; caused by S. pyogenes strains producing erythrogenic toxin.