Infectious Diseases

  • COVID-19 diagnostic testing and the psychology of precautions fatigue
    Gregory W. Ruhnke, MD, MS, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2021, 88 (1) 19-21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20086

    Overuse of special precautions can lead to diminished vigilance.

  • Cryptosporidiosis in an immunosuppressed patient with persistent diarrhea
    Firas Bahdi, MD, Shilpa Jain, MD and Suneal Kumar Agarwal, MD, FACG
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2021, 88 (1) 24-26; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.88a.20016

    A 29-year-old lung transplant recipient presents with diarrhea lasting 1 month.

  • 2020: A year like no other
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 710-711; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87b.12020

    Veracity and bias are issues we address on a daily basis.

  • COVID-19 coagulopathy
    Anup Katyal, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 712; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.12001

    Skepticism of high-intensity prophylaxis for patients with D-dimer ≥ 3.0 µg/mL.

  • In Reply: COVID-19 coagulopathy
    Simon R. Mucha, MD, Siddharth Dugar, MD, Keith McCrae, MD, Douglas Joseph, DO, John Bartholomew, MD, Gretchen L. Sacha, PharmD, RPh, BCCCP and Michael Militello, PharmD, RPh, BCPS
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 712; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/cjm.87c.12002

    An attempt to balance the potential risks and benefits of intensified prophylaxis.

  • Dexamethasone or hydrocortisone in COVID-19?
    Chia Siang Kow, and Syed Shahzad Hasan,
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 715; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87c.12005

    Dexamethasone should be favored over hydrocortisone.

  • Neurologic complications of COVID-19
    Catherine E. Hassett, DO, Aron Gedansky, MD, Ibrahim Migdady, MD, Adarsh Bhimraj, MD, Ken Uchino, MD and Sung-Min Cho, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2020, 87 (12) 729-734; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.ccc058

    Human coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2, can be neurotropic.

  • Double the reasons for giving the flu vaccine in 2020
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 647-648; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87b.11020

    Limiting the impact of other diseases, possibly including COVID-19.

  • COVID-19 and flu: Dual threat, dual opportunity
    Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 651-655; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20161

    Measures to combat COVID-19 can minimize the impact of flu, and vice versa.

  • Does my healthy 65-year-old patient still need the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13)?
    Craig D. Nielsen, MD, FACP and Xian Wen Jin, MD, PhD, FACP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2020, 87 (11) 656-658; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.87a.20012

    The short answer is no—but it is not that simple.

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