Klebsiella brain abscess in adults.

abstract：:Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative Staphylococcus that causes skin and soft tissue infections and occasionally life threatening endocarditis of native valves. Prosthetic valve infection due to this pathogen is very rare and has not been described in HIV infected individuals. We report on the first case...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kourbeti IS,Alegakis DE,Roditakis GE,Samonis G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal microsporidiosis with Enterocytozoon bieneusi was diagnosed in three of 18 HIV-infected patients with chronic diarrhoea. In two cases all known stages of the life cycle of E. bieneusi (merogonial plasmodia, sporogonial plasmodia, sporoblasts, spores) were found in duodenal biopsies by electron microscopical...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Franzen C,Fätkenheuer G,Salzberger B,Müller A,Mahrle G,Diehl V,Schrappe M

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serum IL-6 and TNF alpha response to cardiopulmonary bypass surgery was studied in 12 patients. Human neutrophil elastase was also measured in order to detect the presence of neutrophil activation. Peripheral venous blood samples were obtained before, during, and 1, 2, 3 and 6 days after surgery. Intra-operative s...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Holzheimer RG,Molloy RG,Görlach H,Wilkert S,Hehrlein F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open randomised crossover study the antibacterial activity of pefloxacin and norfloxacin was assessed in the urine after a single 800-mg oral dose in 14 healthy female volunteers. Pefloxacin demonstrated lower peak concentrations in the urine than norfloxacin (mean, 217.2 mg/l versus 492.9 mg/l as determined by ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hofbauer H,Naber KG,Kinzig-Schippers M,Sörgel F,Rustige-Wiedemann C,Wiedemann B,Reiz A,Kresken M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 100 male patients aged from 20 to 45 years were treated for chronic brucellosis. Sixty-eight complained of impaired sexual potency. The percentage of patients with sexual disorders increased parallel to the duration of the disease. Andrologic investigations comprised a study sexual history, physical examination of t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kassur B,Dziubek Z

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of lomefloxacin, a new difluorinated quinolone, was compared to that of ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, norfloxacin and other relevant antibacterial agents. Lomefloxacin and norfloxacin shared similar activity, whereas ofloxacin and in particular ciprofloxacin showed superior activity. Most gram-negati...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sun ZM,Maskell JP,Sehgal SC,Williams JD

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the microbiological point of view a variety of highly active compounds has contributed to improved efficacy of antibacterial chemotherapy during the last few decades. In some cases, however, resistance has increased due to different molecular mechanisms. Resistance to the new generation of broad-spectrum beta-lac...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Heisig P,Wiedemann B

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Infective endocarditis (IE) is a serious complication of bacteremia and is most often caused by Gram positive cocci. We investigated the prevalence of IE in patients where echocardiography was encouraged when bacteremia with Gram positive cocci was present. METHODS:The study included patients with Gram positiv...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Andersen MH,Holle SLK,Klein CF,Bruun NE,Arpi M,Bundgaard H,Tønder N,Iversen KK

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual case of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis septicemia is reported. Diabetes mellitus was the sole underlying disease; liver enzyme elevations were only transitory. The strain did not show motility until after 50 days at room temperature; it showed temperature and media-dependent fermentation of arabinose, melibios...

journal_title：Infection

authors： von Graevenitz A,Hany A,Wertheimer Y,Wüst J,Zwicky P

更新日期：1983-07-01 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

abstract：:A total of 208 patients underwent brain biopsy for presumptive herpes simplex encephalitis and were randomized to receive either vidarabine, vira-A, at 15 mg/kg/day, or acyclovir, at 30 mg/kg/day for ten days. 69 patients (33%) had biopsy-proven disease; 37 received vira-A and 32 acyclovir. With the exception of age, ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Whitley RJ,Alford CA,Hirsch MS,Schooley RT,Luby JP,Aoki FY,Hanley D,Nahmias AJ,Soong SJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sources from which eight Caesarean section babies acquired E. coli are described and the probable routes by which the organisms reached the babies are outlined. Suggestions are made concerning the control of the spread of E. coli in premature nurseries and during outbreaks of E. coli gastroenteritis. ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Lennox-King SM,O'Farrell SM,Bettelheim KA,Shooter RA

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess whether diabetes is a risk factor for herpes zoster (HZ). METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the Integrated Health Care Information Services database, during the period 1997-2006. A type I diabetes cohort, a type II diabetes cohort and two non-diabetic cohorts matched for date of...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Guignard AP,Greenberg M,Lu C,Rosillon D,Vannappagari V

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to describe the occurrence of nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections and the relation between endemic and epidemic nosocomial MRSA infections in intensive care units (ICUs) in Germany. METHODS:The ICU component within the German national nosocomial infection...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Gastmeier P,Sohr D,Geffers C,Nassauer A,Dettenkofer M,Rüden H

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The Choosing Wisely® initiative is an international campaign addressing over- and underuse of diagnostic and therapeutic measures in infectious diseases among others. Since 2016, the German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI) has constantly designed new items in this regard. Here we report the most recent rec...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Draenert R,Jung N,Choosing Wisely (Klug entscheiden) DGI Working Group.

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 62-year-old man developed a blood stream infection and meningitis due to Listeria monocytogenes, 20 days after an episode of pseudo-membranous colitis. The patient, hospitalized for the first time for transurethral prostatectomy, was readmitted 20 days later with watery diarrhea. Pseudo-membranous colitis was diagno...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Carannante N,Pagliano P,Rossi M,Attanasio V,Rescigno C,Corte L,Tascini C,Cardinali G

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:13 cases of osteomyelitis caused by Aspergillus nidulans have been previously reported in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). All of them have been associated with simultaneous pulmonary infection and have had an extremely poor outcome. We report an unusual case of femoral osteomyelitis due to A. nidula...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Dotis J,Panagopoulou P,Filioti J,Winn R,Toptsis C,Panteliadis C,Roilides E

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lower urinary tract infection is a common problem for women, and tends to be recurrent. It is not associated with significant long term morbidity. Optimal management for symptomatic infection is short course antimicrobial therapy. For women with frequent, symptomatic, recurrent infection a number of therapeutic option...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Nicolle LE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assuming a local weakness in the defence system to be responsible for chronic, recurrent infection of the urinary tract in young girls, we made 86 determinations of the bacterial periurethral flora from 70 female patients aged between five and eleven years. Within three patient groups (urologically healthy, temporaril...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hofmann K,Marget W,Belohradsky B

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics and renal excretion of the sulphonamides sulphachloropyridazine, sulphadiazine, sulphaisodimidine, sulphamerazine, and sulphamethoxazole were investigated in a cross-over study with doses of 800 mg each. The serum half-life, urine levels, distribution volume, protein binding and potential antibact...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ortengren B,Fellner H,Bergan T

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:No reports have been published on synchronous multifocal necrotizing fasciitis (SMNF), a multifocal presence of necrotizing fasciitis in different extremities. We evaluated the clinical characteristics and outcomes of SMNF. METHODS:Eighteen patients (14 men, 4 women; mean age: 59 years) diagnosed with SMNF of ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Lee CY,Li YY,Huang TW,Huang TY,Hsu WH,Tsai YH,Huang JC,Huang KC

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Cefodizime was evaluated for its effect on a number of parameters of leukocyte function in humans. Four healthy volunteers received 2 g i.v. b.i.d. for seven days. Leukocyte activity was measured before, during and after treatment. Using opsonized zymosan as a stimulant, no effect on the respiratory burst of granulocy...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Limbert M,Müllner H,Shah PM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic enterococcal infections often lead to life-threatening disease. By analyzing the immune response of two patients with systemic enterococcal infections against enterococcal polysaccharide antigens, we found that both patients had antibodies against all four of the capsular serotypes identified to date. Antibod...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hufnagel M,Huebner J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes rarely causes meningitis. A recent increase in the incidence and severity of diseases due to S. pyogenes has been observed worldwide, without an apparent increase in the incidence of S. pyogenes meningitis. However, more recently severe and fulminant cases of S. pyogenes meningitis have been rep...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Steppberger K,Adams I,Deutscher J,Müller H,Kiess W

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-infected standardized burns and those contaminated experimentally with a constant number of organisms of a selected Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain underwent varying forms of treatment with silver sulfadiazine, cefsulodin cream and povidone iodine ointment. Wound healing was controlled by evaluating the wound area. ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kaiser W,von der Lieth H,Potel J,Heymann H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten patients (mean age 63 years) undergoing alloarthroplastic hip joint replacement received 400 mg ofloxacin orally before anaesthesia. Venous blood samples were obtained before administration of the drug and then at intervals of up to 24 h. Bone samples were taken from femoral head and femoral shaft. Antibiotic conc...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wittmann DH,Kotthaus E

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness and tolerability of norfloxacin, cinoxacin and oxolinic acid in the treatment of urinary tract infections (UTI) in comparison to nalidixic acid. 125 patients were given the drugs in the appropriate doses for 10-14 days and 30 patients were treated for six we...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sabbour MS,El Bokl MA,Osman LM

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is defined as S. aureus genetically having the mecA or mecC genes or phenotypically showing minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of oxacillin higher than 2 mg/L. However, recently, cefoxitin/oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positive S. aureus (OS-MRSA) has been rep...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Saeed K,Ahmad N,Dryden M,Cortes N,Marsh P,Sitjar A,Wyllie S,Bourne S,Hemming J,Jeppesen C,Green S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is increasing evidence indicating an association between invasive non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) infection in pregnancy and early pregnancy loss. As the diagnosis relies on microbiological investigation of post-mortem placental and foetal samples, a significant proportion of NTHi-related pr...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Cevik M,Moncayo-Nieto OL,Evans MJ

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00