Bradley A. Perkins

TL;DR: Bacterial meningitis in the United States is now a disease predominantly of adults rather than of infants and young children, largely as a result of a 94 percent reduction in the number of cases of H. influenzaeMeningitis due to vaccine-related decline.

TL;DR: Sera from patients with CSD were found to have high titres to R henselae antigens, and tests with this assay showed that 36 (88%) of 41 patients with suspected CSD had serum titres of 64 or more to R Henselae antigen, and there was a low prevalence of substantial titres in healthy controls.

TL;DR: Detailed surveillance of Candida species isolated from blood in Atlanta and San Francisco during 1992-1993 document the substantial burden of candidemia and its changing epidemiology.

TL;DR: Cat scratch disease is strongly associated with owning a kitten, and fleas may be involved in its transmission, so the serologic test for rochalimaea may be useful diagnostically and suggest an etiologic role for this genus.

TL;DR: The most commonly expressed serosubtype was P1.15; 68% of isolates expressed 1 of the 6 most common sero-subtypes as discussed by the authors, indicating that serogroup Y was more likely to cause cases of meningococcal disease in older age groups.