An increase in the frequency of azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus has emerged.

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Direct comparison of the course and outcome of TBE revealed several distinctions between patients over 60 years of age and those aged 60 or under and corroborates previous assumptions that TBE is a more serious illness in the elderly population.

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In patients with previously untreated chronic Lyme borreliosis with symptoms suggesting central nervous system involvement but without overt clinical signs of it, and without pleocytosis in the cerebrospinal fluid, treatment with doxycycline is as effective as with ceftriaxone. Treatment with doxycycline is cheap and relatively safe, but gastrointestinal symptoms and photosensitivity reactions can be expected more often than with ceftriaxone.