Practical Emergency Medicine

Practice Essentials Malaria is a potentially life-threatening parasitic disease caused by infection with Plasmodium protozoa transmitted...

Background Adenovirus, a DNA virus, was first isolated in the 1950s in adenoid tissue–derived cell cultures, hence the name. These...

A worldwide outbreak of acute, severe hepatitis in children has made headlines recently. This is in part because the precise cause has...

Practice Essentials Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse, shared...