{"id":1387,"date":"2009-04-20T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T10:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost.localdomain\/wpmu\/htb\/?p=1387"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:02:53","slug":"us-guidelines-on-prevention-and-treatment-of-opportunistic-nfections-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/1387","title":{"rendered":"US Guidelines on prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections updated (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The following US guidelines have been updated and are available online:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents: Recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hivatis.org\">http:\/\/www.hivatis.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, unlike the main US treatment guidelines, this updated document does not highlight in the text the changes from earlier documents.<\/p>\n<p>However, the introduction states that major changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greater emphasis on the importance of antiretroviral therapy for the prevention and treatment of OIs, especially those OIs for which no specific therapy exists;<\/li>\n<li>Information regarding the diagnosis and management of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndromes;<\/li>\n<li>Information regarding the use of interferon-gamma release assays for the diagnosis of latent TB infection;<\/li>\n<li>Updated information on drug interactions that affect the use of rifamycin drugs for prevention and treatment of TB;<\/li>\n<li>The addition of a section on hepatitis B virus infection; and<\/li>\n<li>The addition of malaria to the list of OIs that might be acquired during international travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following US guidelines have been updated and are available online: Guidelines for Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents: Recommendations from CDC, the National Institutes of Health, and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidelines","category-opportunistic-infections-coinfections-and-complications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}