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August 24th, 2014
Combination ABC/3TC/DTG Approved — Fourth One Pill a Day HIV Treatment
As expected, there’s a new single pill regimen for HIV, this one containing abacavir (ABC)/lamivudine (3TC)/dolutegravir (DTG), and it’s called Triumeq. (Where oh where do companies get these names?) A few thoughts/comments: The most important study for this combination was the SINGLE study, which showed that ABC/3TC + DTG (given as two pills) was superior to TDF/FTC/EFV (given as […]
August 16th, 2014
Dietary Advice From Your Friendly ID Doc: Don’t Eat Garden Slugs
From the pages of Open Forum Infectious Diseases, comes this cautionary case report: Toxocariasis After Slug Ingestion Characterized by Severe Neurologic, Ocular, and Pulmonary Involvement I encourage you to read the full paper, but the short story is that a previously healthy 71-year-old man was admitted to a hospital in France with fever, cough, headaches, […]
August 10th, 2014
Waiting (and Preparing) for Ebola
For Infectious Diseases doctors, there’s a certain life cycle to the big ID topics that make their way to the lay press, and it’s playing out right now big time with the terrible Ebola outbreak in Western Africa. It goes like this: Someone reports an outbreak in a venue like ProMED. Almost synchronously, it is covered by […]
Paul E. Sax, MD
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