"It's very underutilized, " says Edward Chapnick, an infectious disease specialist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
But TB remains the leading cause of death by infectious disease in the country's adults.
Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Md.
Unfortunately, if you've got a highly infectious disease you have to resist that impulse.
"There's been a dearth of innovation around infectious disease, " said Kleiner Perkins partner Brook Byers.
Avian influenza "never became a man-to-man disease, " said Dr. Lo Wing-Luk, an infectious disease expert.
It is refreshing, therefore, to take a wider look at the problem of infectious disease.
But while the casualties continue to mount, so does scientific understanding of this nasty infectious disease.
The immune system's ability to fight off the body's invaders has long been recognized against infectious disease.
He works at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Hutchinson Research Center in Seattle, Washington.
Murray's regular job was as an infectious disease specialist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
It was first spotted in 1826, but was not officially recognised as an infectious disease until 1894.
Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease characterised by a high fever, a rash and generally feeling unwell.
They displace people from modern resources, like clean water and sewage systems, that prevent infectious disease from spreading.
But until recently malaria, the infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes, has had no gung-ho celebrity attached to it.
But it is certainly possible to say that the virus has caused a transformation of attitudes to infectious disease.
We are reminded daily of the role that the WHO plays in fighting these top three infectious disease killers.
It specialises in creating kits for food intolerance, autoimmune disease and infectious disease.
In fact, it's almost never an infectious disease, but the Tasmanian devil shows it can be an infectious disease.
Hong Kong has long been ground zero in the fight against infectious disease.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
Overcrowding has increased the incidence of infectious disease and has led to rising prison violence and greater reliance on lockdowns.
By 2015, the sector could see nearly 30 new commercial therapies focusing on treatment for cancer, cardiovascular and infectious disease.
Mainstream infectious disease doctors believe Lyme Disease, which is transmitted by ticks, is curable with a short dose of antibiotics.
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Gerberding reiterated what she has said in prior disasters: Bodies, while perhaps horrifying to see, pose little threat of infectious disease.
No cases have been reported in the United States, but infectious disease experts have said it would not be surprising.
Pfizer had hired Juan Walterspiel, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Yale Medical School, in 1994 for Trovan's pediatric clinical development.
The studies presented at the European Congress of Microbiology and Infectious Disease seem to show that Prevnar 13 fits this bill.
Andrew Read, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Pennsylvania State University, raised a similar question about resistance in infectious disease.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, says authorities learned many lessons during that time.
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