BC Centre for Disease Control

Over the past 30 years we have observed the successive loss of penicillin, tetracycline, and fluoroquinolone antibiotics to reliably treat Neisseria gonorrhoeae due to drug resistance.[1]... Read More

The publicly funded rotavirus vaccine for infants at 2 and 4 months of age is the orally administered live attenuated monovalent human rotavirus vaccine Rota­rix.[1] Benefits of this vaccine over the... Read More

Now available in BC: E-cards patients can use to notify sex partners to get tested Thousands of people are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) every year in BC. It is important... Read More

A number of factors common in the elderly make them vulnerable to acute kidney injury and subsequent digoxin toxicity. Case An 85-year-old female presented to emergency after a syncopal episode.... Read More

The finding of acid-fast bacilli in a sputum specimen rightly raises concern for pulmonary tuberculosis. The reality is that most positive smears will grow atypical or nontuberculous mycobacteria (... Read More