UD 009
Update in Infectious Diseases

Clinical questions to be addressed:

1. Resistance – The "10 novel drugs by 2020 campaign"
2. MRSA – Why USA 300 does what it does
3. Influenza H1N1 and seasonal flu. Universal flu vaccine in Ontario
4. HIV – the updated DHHS guidelines and "immune activation"
5. Clostridium difficile – New test (PCR for toxin B gene) and management
6. Rabies – How one physician changed national policy in Canada
7. Pneumococcal vaccine – the new Prevnar 13
8. Hepatitis – Update on therapy in a very rapidly moving field