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Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., May 9 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Souha Kanj, MD, FACP, FIDSA, professor of medicine, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases and chair of the Infection Control and Prevention Program at American University of Beirut Medical Center in Beirut, Lebanon. Dr.

Medicine Grand Rounds on Fri., May 2 at 8 a.m. in Duke Hospital room 2002 will feature Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases) and director of Infectious Diseases Research, Duke Clinical Research Institute. Dr.

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[caption id="attachment_15379" align="alignright" width="300"] Scanning electron micrograph shows infectious spores produced by the deadly fungi Cryptococcus neoformans.[/caption] Duke Today featured a study last week by a group of researchers who have sequenced the entire genome and all the RNA

Jennifer Horan, MD, PharmD, medical instructor (Infectious Diseases), was one of 12 Meritorious Service Award winners recognized by Duke University President Richard Brodhead this week. "Dr.

In 2012, as John Perfect, MD, studied the inner workings of the genes of Cryptococcus neoformans, a fungus that infects humans and kill 600,000 people a year, he realized he was only looking at half of a problem. “There is always two sides to an infection—the pathogen and the host,” said Dr.

Growing drug resistance, a high prevalence of S. aureus bacteria and ineffective antibiotics prescribed to one in three patients are among the challenges facing community hospitals in treating patients with serious bloodstream infections, according to researchers at Duke Medicine. The findings, published March 18, 2014, in the journal PLOS ONE, provide the most comprehensive look at bloodstream infections in community hospitals to date.

Ephraim Tsalik, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine (Infectious Diseases), has been selected to serve as an associate scientific advisor for Science’s sister journal, Science Translational Medicine. "Dr. Tsalik is an excellent choice for this," said Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (Cardiology) and pathology and director of genomic medicine at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy. Dr.

A snapshot of patients who required care at Duke University Hospital during this year’s flu season shows that those who had not been vaccinated had severe cases and needed the most intensive treatment. In an analysis of the first 55 patients treated for flu at the academic medical center from November 2013 through Jan. 8, 2014, Duke Medicine researchers found that only two of the 22 patients who required intensive care had been vaccinated prior to getting sick. The findings were published online in Mon., Feb.

[caption id="attachment_14288" align="alignright" width="210"] Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH[/caption] Deverick Anderson, MD, MPH, got an unusual phone call last August.