Infectious Disease

In an HIV patient presenting with cervical lymphadenopathy, a number of differential diagnoses can be considered. This is a first case report showing the co-occurrence of HIV, tuberculous lymphadenitis and Kikuchi-Fujimoto disease.

Treatment of dyspepsia, gastritis, gastroduodenal ulcers and malignancies has evolved since the identification of the causative role of Helicobacter pylori infection in these conditions.   Currently, the use of triple therapy with Proton pump inhibitors plus two antibiotics and Quadruple therapy with addition of Bismuth citrate have become the standard treatment.

Chronic hepatitis C is widely known to be associated with insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance predicts faster progression to fibrosis and cirrhosis that may culminate in liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma. It also predicts poor response to anti-retroviral therapy.

Surgical site infections (SSI) are still one of the most frequent causes of morbidity and mortality following any surgical procedure.

To compare the cost-effectiveness of a universal mass vaccination (UMV) program with a 2 þ 1 schedule of a 10-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae pro- tein D conjugate vaccine (PHiD-CV) against two strategies: 1) a no- vaccination strategy and 2) a pneumococcal 13-valent conjugate vaccine (PCV13) 2 þ 1 strategy in the Philippines.

Prosthetic joint infections are usually caused by Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci. Streptococcus pyogenes prosthetic joint infection is extremely rare with only very few reported cases in the literature, yet it causes significant morbidity and mortality.