Web-based references relating to the number under the disk sign, listed by page header
Miscellaneous gram negative bacteria
237; Changes in antibiotic
resistance of the most common Gram-negative bacteria isolated in intensive care
units. Author: Makedou KG, Tsiakiri EP, Bisiklis AG, Chatzidimitriou M,
Halvantzis AA, Ntoutsou K, Alexiou-Daniel S. Journal: J Hosp Infect; 2005 Jul ;
60(3):245-8. PubMed ID: 15890431
[Link]; page 410
238
Link not available; page 410
239 D Dennis 1994 bmj ii 893; page 410
240 G
Luzzi 1993 Tr Roy Soc Trop Med Hy 87 138; page 410
241 GAT(Sanford) 2003 and
PIDJ (1998) 17:447; page 410
242 Resurgence of pertussis in Europe. Author:
Celentano LP, Massari M, Paramatti D, Salmaso S, Tozzi AE, EUVAC-NET Group .
Journal: Pediatr Infect Dis J; 2005 Sep ; 24(9):761-5. PubMed ID: 16148840.
[Link]; page 410
243
See FE Udwadia 2003 in Oxford Textbook of Medicine (4th Ed), OUP,
p545; page 411
Tetanus
244 doh 1996; the 65-yr booster is not doh advice, but is
reckoned cost-effective ($4527/life saved vs $8000/life saved for hypertension
screening"C Bowman 1996 Lancet 348 1664; this regimen may still be inadequate
for some"R Sehgal 1997 Lancet 349 573); page 412
245 For an excellent review
of typhoid fever, see CM Parry 2002 NEJM 347:1770
[Link]?; page 412
246
Image of opisthotonus in tetanus. Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Copyright-free
[Link]; page 413
Enteric fever; Bacillary dysentery; Cholera
247
G Rabbani 2000 nejm 342 345 & Cholera Group 1993 Lancet 342 387 & S Gore
1992 bmj i 287 Pre-cooked, pre-packaged hydrolysed rice-based fluid is
available.; page 414
248 See Sanford guide to antimicrobial therapy (2003)
p12; page 414
249 M Levine 1997 Lancet 349 220, 231; page 414
250 WHO
epidemiological data on Leprosy
[Link]; page 414
251
Secret of ancient Athens plague is being unraveled
[Link]; page 415
252
Pericles oration--Thucydides; page
[Link]; page 415
(footnote) Dulce et decorum est
[Link]; page 415
(footnote) J
Snow 1854 Med Times Gaz 9 321, quoted by H Brody 2000 Lancet 356 64
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(footnote) R
Cooter 2006 Lancet 367 1648 & The Medical Detective: John Snow and the
Mystery of Cholera, Sandra Hempel, Granta Books, 2006.
[Link]; page 415
Leprosy
253
K Meeran 1989 bmj i 364; page 416
254 mf Waters 1993 Tr Roy Soc Trop Med Hyg
87 500; page 416
255 D Lockwood 2002 BMJ 324:1516; page
[Link]; page 416
256
DermRounds
[Link]; page 417
Spirochaetes
257
For a review of Lyme disease, see AC Steere 2001 NEJM 345:115; page 418
258 DA
Warrell 'Other borrelia infections' in Oxford Textbook of Medicine, 4th Ed OUP
2002
www.oup.co.uk; page 418
259 Image of T
pallidum courtesy of Prof Steven R. Spilatro; Ohio
[Link]; page 419
260
2004 figures for STI:
[Link]
[Link]; page 419
261
The re-emergence of syphilis in the United Kingdom: the new epidemic phases.
Author: Simms I, Fenton KA, Ashton M, Turner KM, Crawley-Boevey EE, Gorton R,
Thomas DR, Lynch A, Winter A, Fisher MJ, Lighton L, Maguire HC, Solomou M.
Journal: Sex Transm Dis; 2005 Apr ; 32(4):220-6. PubMed ID: 15788919.
[Link]; page 419
262
No link available; page 419
263 Nodular secondary syphilis
[Link]; page 419
