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1 . 2013
Safety of antimicrobial therapy
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Infectious diseases: problems and actual prospects of the development of continuing medical education of physicians

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The article describes the problems and current prospects for the development of continuing medical education for physicians on the problem of infectious diseases. Approaches to adaptation of Russian educational traditions of the European and world standards, the introduction
Russian continuous medical education

Infectious diseases teaching and learning commission: enlarged session results with participation of infectious diseases chairholders from Russian medical universities

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Continuous medical education – call of the times

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The emergency of continuous professional training of any physicians in the ≪Infectious diseases≫ for the medical community is ground authors claims of facts. Some ways to realize that approaches to implement training programs are proposed.

Using the Moodle platform for distance learning in department of infectious diseases

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The use of distance learning technologies in medical education. There are many educational platforms and systems. The paper presents experience of using Moodle platform for distance education at the department of infectious diseases of all categories of students in order to

Legal issues of infectious security on department of infectious diseases

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The article provides information about normative documents, adopted in Russia in order to provide safe working conditions (education). Proposed a form of ≪Information on the specificity of training at the Department of Infectious Diseases≫, developed in the South

Methods of students’ individual work on the «Infectious diseases» discipline

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One of the directions of modernization of higher medical education anticipates forming of the professional competencies, and much attention is given to the extending of the individual work of students. Individual work of students is determined by professional competencies in

Some features of the teaching of natural focal infectious pathology

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There is given an analysis of the experience of teaching the natural focal infection in the Upper Amur Region. There’s also presented the results of the work of Chair of infectious diseases with epidemiology on a combination of scientific research in this field and the

Safety of antimicrobial agents: myths and facts

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Antibiotics are among the most commonly used drugs both in hospital and ambulance situation. Indications for prescribing of systemic antimicrobial therapy are serious bacterial infections that may lead to development of heavy complications or endangering patient’s life
Scientific reviews

Interdisciplinary science and the design of a single-dose antibiotic therapy

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Azithromycin is a unique antibiotic due to its serum half-life of 69 h. This half-life is long enough to permit administration of an entire course of therapy in a single dose, if the gastrointestinal (GI) side effects of such a high dose can be minimized. A series of

An ESICM systematic review and meta-analysis of procalcitonin-guided antibiotic therapy algorithms in adult critically ill patients

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We sought to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of procalcitonin (PCT) – guided antibiotic therapy algorithms for critically ill adult patients. Methods. We performed a search in PubMed and in the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials. Seven
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Triple combination treatment for chronic hepatitis C with protease inhibitors, pegylated interferon and ribavirin: lead-in or no lead-in?

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Direct acting antiviral agents for the management of chronic hepatitis C infection have recently been licensed. These new protease inhibitors are combined with pegylated interferon and ribavirin and markedly increase the proportion of patients who respond to antiviral
Clinical practice guideline

Community-acquired pneumonia in adults: practical guidelines for diagnostics, treatment and prevention

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CHIEF EDITOR
Aleksandr V. Gorelov
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MD, Head of Infection Diseases and Epidemiology Department of the Scientific and Educational Institute of Clinical Medicine named after N.A. Semashko ofRussian University of Medicine, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Department of Childhood Diseases, Clinical Institute of Children's Health named after N.F. Filatov, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director for Research, Central Research Institute of Epidemiology, Rospotrebnadzor (Moscow, Russian Federation)

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