GIDEON update 2000.1
March 1, 2000 WHAT'S NEW ? Update 00.1 March 1, 2000
*** MEDICAL SECTION ***
DIAGNOSIS
DISEASES ADDED Kimura disease (included in discussion of Kikuchi's disease)
CLINICAL PARAMETERS AIDS, Amebic abscess, Ehrlichiosis- human granulocytic, O'nyong nyong, Kikuchi's disease and Kimura disease
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Notes designated <Worldwide> for a wide range of diseases have been expanded. These text files are invaluable in preparing reviews, lecture handouts, etc.
PARAMETERS Microsporidiosis DISEASE DISTRIBUTION Israeli spotted fever, Schistosomiasis - mansoni
NOTES EXPANDED OR UPDATED ALL REPORTABLE DISEASES American Samoa, Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Finland, Guam, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Trust Territories - U.S., United States, Virgin Islands
Adenovirus infection Malaysia, United States AIDS All countries, <Worldwide> Amebic colitis Mexico, <Worldwide> Astrakhan fever Russia Babesiosis Canada Bartonellosis - cat-borne United Kingdom Botulism Poland, Switzerland Brucellosis Netherlands Campylobacter Germany, Singapore Capillariasis - hepatic Brazil Chlamydia infections Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uruguay, <Worldwide> Cholera Benin, Burundi, Comoros, Dem. Rep. Congo, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Singapore, Tanzania, Uganda, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe Cryptococcosis Rwanda Cryptosporidiosis United Kingdom Cyclosporiasis Guatemala Cysticercosis Peru, <Worldwide> Cytomegalovirus infection United States Dengue United States Dermatophytosis <Worldwide> Diphyllobothriasis Chile Dirofilariasis Israel Echinococcosis Iran Echinococcosis - multilocular France, Germany Ehrlichiosis - human granulocytic Germany, Israel, Yugoslavia Enterovirus infections Hong Kong, Taiwan Escherichia coli diarrhea Australia, Canada, Ireland, Norway, United Kingdom, United States European tick encephalitis Poland Filariasis - bancroftian Brazil Gastroenteritis - viral Canada, Finland, Japan Gonorrhea Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Fiji, Honduras, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Mongolia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Slomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Viet Nam, <Worldwide> Hantavirus - old world Austria, China, Finland Hepatitis A Israel, Oman, Peru, Spain Hepatitis B Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Poland, Taiwan, Venezuela Hepatitis C All reporting countries, <Worldwide> Hepatitis E Bolivia Hepatitis GB South Africa Herpes simplex infection Israel Histoplasmosis Martinique Israeli spotted fever Portugal Japanese encephalitis India Kawasaki disease Malta Kikuchi's disease and Kimura disease <Worldwide> Lassa fever Germany Legionellosis Belgium, Denmark, Norway Leishmaniasis - cutaneous Bolivia Leishmaniasis - mucotaneous Peru Leishmaniasis - visceral Israel, <Worldwide> Leprosy Comoros, French Guyana, French Polynesia Leptospirosis Costa Rica, India, Netherlands, United Kingdom Listeriosis Denmark, France Lyme disease China, Czechoslovakia, Germany Malaria Cambodia, Dominical Republic, Russia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, <Worldwide> Mansonelliasis - ozzardi Bolivia Measles Bahrain, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, <Worldwide> Mediterranean spotted fever Russia Melioidosis Vietnam Meningitis - bacterial Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Canada, Chad, Cuba, Dem. Rep. Congo, Guinea, Hungary, Ireland, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Poland, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe, <Worldwide> Meningitis - viral Japan Microsporidiosis France Mumps Denmark, Poland, Switzerland North Asian tick typhus Russia Onchocerciasis Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Uganda, Venezuela, <Worldwide> Ornithosis <Worldwide> Paragonimiasis Benin, Korea Parainfluenza virus Malaysia Parvovirus B-19 Germany, Ireland Pertussis Denmark, Luxwmbourg, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Plague China, Madagascar, United States Poliomyelitis Afghanistan, Bahrain, Chad, China, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, <Worldwide> Q fever France Rabies Algeria, Central African Republic, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Iran, Israel, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, United States, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, <Worldwide> Respiratory syncytial virus Ireland, Malaysia Ross River disease Australia Rubella Cuba, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Mexico Salmonellosis Canada, Greece, Ireland, Singapore, United States, <Worldwide> Sarcocystosis Malaysia, <Worldwide> Scabies United Kingdom Shigellosis Lesotho, Sierra Leone, Singapore, United States Syphilis Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Honduras, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Norway. <Worldwide> Taeniasis <Worldwide> Tetanus Pakistan, Poland Tick-born encephalitis Far Eastern Russia, <Worldwide> Toxic shock syndrome United States Toxocariasis <Worldwide> Toxoplasmosis Sweden Trichinosis Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia Trichomoniasis Barbados, Mexico, Nicaragua, <Worldwide> Tuberculosis Australia, Brazil, Cuba, Dem. Rep. Congo, Denmark, Germany, Haiti, Italy, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kiribati, Lebanon, Madagascar, Oman, Poland, Rwanda, Samoa, Singapore, Switzerland, Uganda, Zambia, <Worldwide> Tularemia Czechoslovakia Trypanosomiasis - African All reporting countries, <Worldwide> Typhoid Singapore Typhus - endemic Spain West Nile fever Israel Yellow fever Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, United States, Venezuela
THERAPY
DRUGS ADDED PHARMACOLOGY Acyclovir, Amoxicillin- clavulanate, Amprenavir, Azithromycin, Cefotaxime, Cefpirome, Clarithromycin, Clindamycin, Didanosine, Doxycycline, Efavirenz, Erythromycin, Imipenem, Indinavir, Levofloxacin, Meropenem, Metronidazole, Nevirapine, Ofloxacin, Oseltamivir, Penicillin G, Pristinamycin, Quinupristin-Dalfopristin, Roxithromycin, Sparfloxacin, Sulfonamides, Sulfa-trimethoprim, Tetracylcines, Trovafloxacin, Zalcitabine, Zanamivir, Zidovudine INTERACTIONS DATABASE Nifedipine, Pioglitazone, Rabeprazole SUSCEPTIBILITY DATABASE Actinomyces israelii, Actinomyces odontolyticus, Anaerobiospirillum succinoproducens, Anaerobiospirillum thomasii, Bacteroides gracilis, Bacteroides ureolyticus, Porphyromonas canoris, Porphyromonas macacae, Burkholderia mallei, Peptostreptococcus anaerobius, Peptostreptococcus asaccharolyticus, Peptostreptococcus magnus, Peptostreptococcus micros TOXICITY DATABASE Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis TESTING STANDARDS Amoxicillin, Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Cefuroxime, Clarithromycin, Loracarbef
MICROBIOLOGY
NEW TAXA ADDED Dietzia maris PHENOTYPE DATABASE Citrobacter murliniae
If you have any additional information which you would like to see added to your GIDEON program, please let us know (forward relevant documentation, photocopy or reprint).
Note that reporting statistics for the most recent year may be preliminary in some cases. Final data will be incorporated into the software as they become available.
*** TECHNICAL SECTION ***
Troubleshooting --------------- Following is a list of known problems and solutions concerning the GIDEON program. This list will be updated with any new problems found.
PROBLEM: After installing GIDEON and trying to run a different application, the application won't start and I get an error message saying: "This application uses CTL3D32.DLL, which is not the correct version. This version of CTL3D32.DLL is designed only for Windows '95 systems.
SOLUTION: The GIDEON CD contains 2 files, "ctl3dnt" and "ctl3d32_98" (in the multi-user version, these files will also appear on the "UserInst" directory on the server computer). If your operating system is Windows NT, double-click on the first one. If you are using Windows '98, double-click on the second one. You will be asked where to unzip these files, and you should choose the system directory of your Windows (in most cases, WINNT\SYSTEM32 for NT users and WINDOWS\SYSTEM for Windows '98 users). After choosing the directory, unzip the files. The other application should now work.
PROBLEM: When trying to print the results of a comparison, the page appears distorted.
SOLUTION: When comparing too many diseases or pathogens, it is only natural that not all of them would fit on a printed page. For a normal sized page with normal margins, it is recommended that the number of columns compared would be no greater than 5. If you still want to print the table with a larger number of columns, you should save the report instead, load it into a word processor, and print it from there. For example, in Microsoft Word you can mark the text representing the table and convert it to a Word table by choosing the "Convert Text to Table" option under the Table menu. In the dialog box that pops up, in the "Seperate text at" section you should choose "Tabs", and click OK).
PROBLEM: When trying to run GIDEON, I get the following message: "Run time error '35603' Invalid Key"
SOLUTION: These problems may originate when the Windows enviornment is not in English. They are not known to occur on Windows NT systems. If this happens in your computer, try to do the following (in some systems this may not work): 1) Click on the "Start" button in the task bar. Choose "Settings", and then choose "Control Panel". 2) Double click "Regional Settings". 3) A window should appear with a map in it, and above the map there should be a box with your current regional setting (e.g French). Change it to "English" (there are several English options, choose any one of them). Changing the above option will not affect any capablities concerning your language. It will only change some settings which Windows uses (for example, the default currency). All the settings which will be affected are listed in the other windows of the "Regional Settings" (above the box with your regional setting, there are tabs which you can use to set certain settings). You may play with some of these settings afterwards (for example, the default measurement system can always be changed between "Metric" and "U.S").
PROBLEM: When trying to run GIDEON, I get the following message: "Run time error '3031' Not a Valid Password".
SOLUTION: Try the solution for the last problem, though there are less chances that it will work.
