Marie Rosenthal, MS
Mosquitoes and Ticks and Fleas, Oh My!
Vector-borne diseases from mosquitoes, ticks and fleas have tripled in the United States, with more than 640,000 ...
JUNE 20, 2018
The Curse of Valley Fever
Physicians are misdiagnosing valley fever as community-acquired pneumonia leading to unnecessary tests, multiple ...
JUNE 7, 2018
The CDC Wants You To Fight Resistance
The CDC’s containment strategy that calls for early, aggressive action to prevent the spread of nightmare ...
MAY 17, 2018
Early Action Plan Fights ‘Wildfire’ of ABx Resistance
The CDC is employing a new aggressive testing and infection control strategy to slow the spread of highly resistant ...
MAY 16, 2018
HIV Therapy: Improving Adherence; Fighting Resistance
There are about 1.2 million Americans infected with HIV, and about 350,000 of them are not yet receiving treatment, ...
MARCH 21, 2018
Is Man’s Best Friend a Vector for Tularemia?
Researchers from the University of Veterinary Medicine (Vetmeduni) Vienna confirmed the prevalence of tularemia in ...
MARCH 21, 2018
Picking a Winner
For most people, the flu is a miserable couple of days filled with body aches, fever, chills, cough, sore throat, ...
MARCH 21, 2018
New C. difficile Guidelines Recommend New Treatment, Testing Protocols
New diagnostic methods and treatments, including fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT), will help improve the care ...
MARCH 21, 2018
Winning the ‘Antibiotic Game’ With Pneumonia
Antibiotic prescribing for pneumonia is a series of checks and balances, in which clinicians prescribe antibiotics ...
OCTOBER 13, 2017
From Zoo to You
Every infectious disease specialist knows that infections ignore not only country borders but also species ...
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
Early Antibiotics, Fluids Key in Sepsis Management
Honolulu—Sepsis and septic shock are medical emergencies that require immediate action. Early resuscitation ...
MAY 3, 2017
Working Together to Defeat Infections Around the World
As I sit down to write this editorial, North Korea is waving its missiles, Britain is leaving the European Union, ...
MAY 3, 2017