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These data suggest that a negative rapid antigen test in individuals with residualsymptoms could provide reassurance about ending isolation.

JAMA Network Open | Original Investigation

Naegleria fowleri — a “free-living amoeba” and cousin of E. histolytica —enters humans not through the mouth but through the nose, and in a few, penetrates the nasal mucosa to invade the brain.

In its alert, the CDC warned doctors that these viruses circulate in the summer and fall and that they should be considered as a potential infection in an infant with fever, sepsis, or neurological symptoms.

Burkholderia pseudomallei bacteria showed up in four patients in Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, and Texas in 2021, despite the bacterium typically associated with travel to tropical and subtropical areas like Thailand and Malaysia. The case was cracked when researchers found an essential oil spray that contained B. pseudomallei in the home of a 4-year-old boy who died from complications of the melioidosis outbreak.