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		<title>VULCAN Trial – Is Using Silver on Venous Wounds “Logical”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right off the top, I apologize for the obviousness of the Mr. Spock reference.  I couldn’t resist! A few months ago I was invited by Robert Kirsner, MD, PhD and Stephanie Wu, DPM to write a chapter on “Antimicrobial Therapy” in their upcoming Wound Healing Society Yearbook. The design of the chapter is a review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome – 3rd Time&#8217;s a Charm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am just back from the APMA National in Seattle. During the meeting not only did we have a successful Book Signing for the 3rd Edition but I also discussed this blog during both of my lectures to large audiences on Saturday.  I am also pleased to announce that digests from this blog are being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Reason to Not Overuse TMP/SMX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have read my chapter on MRSA in the 3rd Edition of the Handbook of Lower Extremity Infections (haven’t you all by now?!) or listened to me lecture about MRSA know that I am less than happy with what I perceive to be the overuse of trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX, Bactrim® or Septra®) used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/another-reason-to-not-overuse-tmpsmx/</link>
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		<title>Infection Control, Multi-Dose Vials and Surgi-Centers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know that this title seems like I am tying in a number of fairly diverse topics but hear me out on this one.  I was browsing through USA Today while sitting in an airplane last week and came across a story whose title read “Safety Breaches at Surgery Centers”.  That, in and of itself [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/infections/infection-control-multi-dose-vials-and-surgi-centers/</link>
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		<title>Consumer Reports and Onychomycosis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the July 2010 issue of Consumer Reports there is a short (less than one page) “5-Minute Consult” article from the magazine’s chief medical advisor Marvin Lipman, MD entitled “Treating Toenail Fungus”. Overall, I think it is a well written and accurate piece that gives consumers some valuable information.  I do, however, find a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/onychomycosis/consumer-reports-and-onychomycosis/</link>
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		<title>Literature Update May 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a small group of us that, when we find an interesting article dealing with infections, we pass them on so we can all be stay up to date.  Some of the journals are fairly obscure and are not in my usual monthly reading so I find this a great way to read articles [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/literature-update-may-2010/</link>
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		<title>Region IV Book Signing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be in Columbus, OH for the Region IV (Ohio) meeting to lecture on June 3, 2010.  I have been given the &#8220;Learning Lunch&#8221; spot from 12:00 to 1:30 and plan on covering a broad range of lower extremity infectious diseases topics including MRSA, antibiotic therapy for osteomyelitis and diabetic foot infections. Prior to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/region-iv-book-signing/</link>
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		<title>Tem-PCR for Molecular Diagnosis of Bacterial Pathogens in an Infection.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is from the text I sent to Podiatry Today Magazine for an upcoming feature they are planning on Innovations in Podiatry.  I really feel that molecular diagnosis of infection has the potential to change the way we diagnose and ultimately treat lower extremity infections.  The company I discuss in the article below, Diatherix, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/infections/tem-pcr-for-molecular-diagnosis-of-bacterial-pathogens-in-an-infection/</link>
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		<title>Diabetic Foot Infections in Turkey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from a lecture trip to Turkey where I had the privilege of giving 5 talks, one in the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya at a nationwide Hospital Infection Congress and 4 to the faculties at various medical universities throughout the country. Before getting into details about specifics dealing with lower extremity infections [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/mrsa/diabetic-foot-infections-in-turkey/</link>
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		<title>The Olmos Award and DFCON 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Up to this point I have resisted using this blog as a “social networking” tool to just post pictures of myself lecturing someplace or another.  It has been my contention that readers of this site are interested in new science about lower extremity infections and the last thing you care to see is my visage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.leinfections.com/diabetic-foot/the-olmos-award-and-dfcon-2010/</link>
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