Automated ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis reveal a cluster of group A streptococci in intravenous drug abusers.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since little is known about the burden of viral hepatitis in Kurds, the prevalence of infection with hepatitis A virus (HAV), hepatitis E virus (HEV), hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) was investigated in a sample of refugee Kurds from Iraq and Turkey. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A cross-sectiona...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Chironna M,Germinario C,Lopalco PL,Carrozzini F,Barbuti S,Quarto M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial meningitis of infants and children exact a major toll worldwide. Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Neisseria meningitidis continue to be the major causes, and efforts to reduce the incidence of this disease have had limited success. Major advances in rapid diagnosis, such as antigen detect...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Marks MI

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:SARS-CoV-2 is a recently emerged ß-coronavirus. Here we present the current knowledge on its epidemiologic features. METHODS:Non-systematic review. RESULTS:SARS-CoV-2 replicates in the upper and lower respiratory tract. It is mainly transmitted by droplets and aerosols from asymptomatic and symptomatic infect...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Salzberger B,Buder F,Lampl B,Ehrenstein B,Hitzenbichler F,Holzmann T,Schmidt B,Hanses F

更新日期：2020-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The great majority of individuals with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection presents with no signs or symptoms, or only lymphadenopathy. To initiate prophylactic measures in time it is necessary to establish risk criteria. CD4+ cell counts are significant predictors. Supplementary methods to improve t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Fuchs D,Krämer A,Reibnegger G,Werner ER,Dierich MP,Goedert JJ,Wachter H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood cultures detect bacteremia in individual patients and help define local pathogen and resistance spectra. At the same time, the benefits of blood culture results in the management of individual patients -- and therefore their cost-effectiveness -- are disputed. PATIENTS AND METHODS:During 1 calendar ye...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ehrenstein BP,Jarry T,Linde HJ,Schölmerich J,Glück T

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of fulminant hepatitis in Taiwan was studied in a series of consecutive 523 patients with acute viral hepatitis including 11 with acute hepatitis A, 67 with acute hepatitis B, 124 with acute hepatitis NANB and 321 acute hepatitis in HBsAg carriers (patients who were HBsAg positive but anti-HBc IgM negati...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Chu CM,Liaw YF

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) prolongs the life of HIV-infected individuals and reduces mortality associated with opportunistic infections, liver diseases have become a major challenge in the management of these patients. up to 45% of deaths of persons with HIV are related to endstage liver disease...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Horster S,Goebel FD

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Differential diagnosis between acute viral and bacterial infection is an emerging common challenge for a physician in the emergency department. Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is used to support diagnosis of bacterial infection, but in patients admitted with low CRP, its ability to discriminate between viral and...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Coster D,Wasserman A,Fisher E,Rogowski O,Zeltser D,Shapira I,Bernstein D,Meilik A,Raykhshtat E,Halpern P,Berliner S,Shenhar-Tsarfaty S,Shamir R

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hundred and one patients with maxillary sinusitis participated in a double-blind, randomized study at 11 ENT-clinics in Europe. Sinusitis was diagnosed by the presence of at least two signs and symptoms and sinus X-ray showing more than 6 mm swelling of the maxillary mucosa. A microbiological specimen was obtain...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Nord CE

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, two excellent methods have been used for the diagnosis of Legionnaires' disease: urinary antigen detection and PCR. The purpose of the present study is to analyze and evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of three different urinary antigen detection kits as well as PCR. MATERIALS AND METHODS:A ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Koide M,Higa F,Tateyama M,Nakasone I,Yamane N,Fujita J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As the number of AIDS cases increases in India, information available among clinicians about the prevalence of opportunistic infections (OIs) is scarce. The aim of the present study was to document the characteristic OIs of HIV-infected North Indian patients along with their CD4+ counts. PATIENTS AND METHOD...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Vajpayee M,Kanswal S,Seth P,Wig N

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In most cases of respiratory tract infection, antibiotic therapy has to be initiated before the results of microbiological examination are available. The four most common pathogens of acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis are pneumococci, Haemophilus influenzae, Moraxella catarrhalis and Staphylococcus aureus. Pne...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Vogel F

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aminoglycosides play a central role in the treatment of infectious diseases caused by gram-negative bacteria. During the period of January to June 1984, 45 clinical specimens collected in our neonatal intensive care unit grew Enterobacter cloacae; 41 of them were gentamicin resistant. One neonate developed septice...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Raz R,Sharir R,Shmilowitz L,Kenes I,Ephros M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of meningitis due to an unusual organism, Haemophilus aphrophilus in an adult is described. In spite of rapid clearance of the organism from the cerebrospinal fluid with intravenous cefotaxime, fever persisted over 8 days of therapy and infection was complicated by hydrocephalus. H. aphrophilus meningitis is un...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Adeyemi-Doro FA,Hui AC,Ho FN,Ip M

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three parameters--urinary symptoms, pyuria, and bacteriuria--can be used independently or in combination to define the presence of urinary tract infection. Using these parameters, several approaches to defining urinary infection in various clinical contexts are discussed. Similarly, approaches to the definition and cl...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Stamm WE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefotaxime is an effective antibiotic in lower respiratory tract infection caused by streptococci and staphylococci. There is a limited tendency to superinfections with Pseudomonas aeruginosa (1.5%) and there is a low incidence of side-effects. It is questionable whether there is really an urgent need for cefotaxime i...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Lode H,Glatzel PD

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the impact of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional approach on the reduction of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in adult patients hospitalized in 11 intensive care units (ICUs), from 10 hospitals, members of the INICC, in 10 cities of Turkey. METH...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Leblebicioglu H,Yalcin AN,Rosenthal VD,Koksal I,Sirmatel F,Unal S,Turgut H,Ozdemir D,Ersoz G,Uzun C,Ulusoy S,Esen S,Ulger F,Dilek A,Yilmaz H,Turhan O,Gunay N,Gumus E,Dursun O,Yýlmaz G,Kaya S,Ulusoy H,Cengiz M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary objective of patient-oriented hospital hygiene is the reduction in frequency of the five most important nosocomial infections: urinary tract infection, wound infection, respiratory tract infection, sepsis and infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue. The less the effect of individual measures on the rate ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Daschner F

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In endemic countries with a high level of chloroquine resistance, Plasmodium vivax malaria is associated with high morbidity and mortality. In these areas, the dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine combination resulted in clinical response, a more rapid clearance of parasitaemia, compared to chloroquine therapies, ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Corpolongo A,Pisapia R,Oliva A,Giancola ML,Mencarini P,Bevilacqua N,Ghirga P,Mariano A,Vulcano A,Paglia MG,Nicastri E

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This retrospective study was performed in order to investigate the clinical characteristics and antibiotic susceptibility of viridans streptococcal bacteremia (VSB) in febrile neutropenic children in the context of the increase in incidence and antibiotic resistance of VSB. METHODS:We conducted this study amon...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Han SB,Bae EY,Lee JW,Lee DG,Chung NG,Jeong DC,Cho B,Kang JH,Kim HK

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 40 intensive care patients, tissue oxygen partial pressure distribution within skeletal muscle was measured in order to estimate peripheral oxygen availability. In septic patients with multiple organ failure (n = 20) mean skeletal muscle pO2 was abnormally high (48.8 +/- 8.5 mmHg, p less than 0.001) in contrast to ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Boekstegers P,Weidenhöfer S,Pilz G,Werdan K

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusobacterium nucleatum is an anaerobic Gram-negative bacillus commensal to the human oropharynx and gastrointestinal tract which causes an array of human infection, yet it has never been associated with infection of prosthetic joints. We report the first case of prosthetic hip infection caused by F. nucleatum in a ma...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Verma K,McNabb PC,Kurtz W,Green J,Trabue CH

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of spontaneous spondylodiscitis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae in a 55-year-old man who presented with thoracolumbar pain is described. Increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein level were pertinent laboratory findings. Computed tomography revealed a paravertebral mass and destructio...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kouroussis C,Georgoulias V,Souglakos J,Simvoulakis E,Karabekios S,Samonis G

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of an HIV-infected patient with low CD4+ cell count and localized pulmonary infection associated with Mycobacterium tilburgii, a recently recognized atypical mycobacterial species, is reported. Diagnosis was confirmed by repeated detection of mycobacterial DNA in lung biopsy specimens. After surgical removal ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kolditz M,Halank M,Spornraft-Ragaller P,Schmidt H,Höffken G

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Shoulder arthroplasties are increasingly performed, but data on periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) in this anatomical position are limited. We retrospectively investigated the characteristics and outcome of shoulder PJI after primary arthroplasty from 1998 to 2010 in a single centre. METHODS:Periprosthetic ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Achermann Y,Sahin F,Schwyzer HK,Kolling C,Wüst J,Vogt M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agar diffusion method was used to test the antibacterial efficacy of cefaclor against bacterial strains isolated routinely from patients in two hospitals in Berlin. A comparison was made with the efficacy of oxacillin, azlocillin, amikacin, gentamicin, ampicillin, co-trimoxazole, tetracycline, penicillin, cefazoli...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wagner J,Hahn H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of clavulanic acid to inactivate beta-lactamase was investigated using 47 amoxicillin-resistant bacteria. In the presence of 10 mg/l clavulanic acid most strains of staphylococci, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella and Proteus mirabilis became fully amoxicillin-sensitive. This effect of clavulanic acid was in mo...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Peters G,Pulverer G,Neugebauer M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 13-year-old girl with CVI is presented who required steroid treatment for myositis. After three weeks of treatment, the serum IgM level increased about ten-fold. Specific antibodies to vaccination antigens, which despite adequate vaccination were absent prior to any kind of treatment, could be synthesize...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wahn V,Grosse-Wilde H,Rosin H,Carls C,Göbel U

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison was made between the Septi-Chek "Release" system containing saponins, standard BacT/Alert blood culture bottles and FAN BacT/Alert blood culture bottles for culturing CAPD fluids. Seventy-seven CAPD effluent specimens were tested. No differences could be found. Therefore, lytic agents are not necessary wh...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wüst J,von Graevenitz A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This narrative review aims to describe barriers of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy at home (OPAT), potentially compromising general standards of antibiotic stewardship (ABS) and facilitators of OPAT for ABS. METHODS:After a literature review, five authors determined the barriers and facilitators to...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Steffens E,Quintens C,Derdelinckx I,Peetermans WE,Van Eldere J,Spriet I,Schuermans A

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00