"It's very underutilized, " says Edward Chapnick, an infectious disease specialist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.
Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Md.
Murray's regular job was as an infectious disease specialist at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
Pfizer had hired Juan Walterspiel, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Yale Medical School, in 1994 for Trovan's pediatric clinical development.
Andrew Read, an infectious disease specialist and professor at Pennsylvania State University, raised a similar question about resistance in infectious disease.
The Mayo Clinic sees about 100 cases a year of young, healthy people who develop sepsis, says Dr. Priya Sampathkumar, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo.
Dr. Ruth Berggren, an infectious disease specialist at Charity Hospital, said the facility had electricity until back-up generators ran out of fuel Tuesday.
"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.
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"Once it gets you, it's a very serious infection, " said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
"If you wanted to design a system not to use this vaccine, that's the system we have, " says Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist William Schaffner.
Five thousand miles away in a Pfizer research lab in Groton, Connecticut, infectious disease specialist Scott Hopkins is surfing the Internet when he spots a story on the epidemic--and sees opportunity.
Kyle Petersen, an infectious disease specialist at National Naval Medical Center, notes that aside from Vietnam, the other cases where Acinetobacter infection turned up include after the bombings in Bali and the earthquakes in Turkey.
"If you read the Israeli literature, the Israelis are like, 'duh, '" says Andrew Shorr, an infectious disease specialist who recently left Walter Reed for Washington Hospital Center and says the Israelis have been dealing with the bacteria in battlefield situations for a long time.
Today more than 60% of all antibiotic use is unnecessary, New York University infectious-disease specialist Dr. Philip M.
Today such strains show up in the U.S., and current pneumococcal vaccines may not stop them, says Jacobs, now an infectious-disease specialist at Case Western Reserve University.
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