Principles and practice of infectious diseases: handbook of antimicrobial therapy 1992

Tularemia presenting as suspected necrotic arachnidism

“…When injected or inhaled, as few as ten organisms can comprise an infectious dose. Due to the high degree of infectiousness of the inhaled form, tularemia is a reportable disease and classified as a Class A bioterrorism agent in the United States .…”

Penicillin Dosing for Pneumococcal Pneumonia

“…Full susceptibility to ceftriaxone or cefotaxime should be verified (a strain of S pneumoniae has even been isolated that showed reduced susceptibility to both of these drugs although still susceptible to penicillin G).96 5. Major desiderata at this time include the devel¬ opment of radically new antibiotics and wider use of the pneumococcal vaccine.9798 Much of the early promise of penicillin G therapy against pneumococcal disease.one of the great advances in medical history.has been squandered by indiscriminate use of antibiotics.…”

Control Strategy for Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762) Population

“…Today, the four Dengue serotypes circulate throughout the country and it is not necessary to introduce a new serotype for new epidemics to occur, since we will always have susceptible people due to births, migration, and time interval between the occurrence of an epidemic with the same serotype [19,20]. In addition to the number of cases that scare, the economic impact is also impressive and growing [21].…”