From the Blogs: A Highly Subjective Guide to Clinically Important Infections That Have Changed Names

Dr. Paul Sax asks why many clinically important microorganisms change names in the latest HIV and ID Observations.

Often, clinically important microorganisms undergo sufficient reclassification so that their old names just don't make sense anymore. In the latest HIV and ID Observations blog post, Dr. Paul Sax takes a look some of these name changes. What we gain in accuracy, he says, is accompanied by a huge bump in confusion.

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