Notice to readers: Caution regarding testing for Lyme disease

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration are investigating the commercial laboratories that conduct testing for Lyme disease by using assays whose accuracy and clinical usefulness are not adequately established. These tests include urine antigen tests, immunofluorescent staining for cell wall-deficient forms of Borrelia burgdorferi, and lymphocyte transformation tests.

Legal issues & crime, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Commercial physical research, Independent Commercial Labs, Company legal issue, Investigations, Diagnosis, Lyme disease, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Commercial laboratories

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Perspectives on new recommendations for nonoccupational HIV postexposure prophylaxis

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released national guidelines for provision of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis (HIV NPEP). These guidelines are constructed through a multiyear consultation process and it gives recommendations for the use of antiretroviral medications following sexual, injection drug, and other nonoccupational exposures to HIV.

Services information, Usage, Services, HIV infection, Drug therapy, HIV infections, Antiviral agents, Antiretroviral agents

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