Prevalence rates of viral hepatitis infections in refugee Kurds from Iraq and Turkey.

abstract：BACKGROUND:We analyzed the clinical manifestations and therapeutic outcomes of Klebsiella brain abscesses. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The clinical data of 15 patients with Klebsiella brain abscesses, retrospectively collected over a 14-year period, were studied. RESULTS:The 15 patients included 13 cases of Klebsiella pneum...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Liliang PC,Lin YC,Su TM,Rau CS,Lu CH,Chang WN,Lee TC,Chen HJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assay described is an agar diffusion test using Bacillus stearothermophilus as test organism. Incubation is at 62 degrees C; results can be obtained rapidly within 2 to 3 hours. The test was developed for the determination of gentamicin concentrations in serum and other body fluids. Because of its high sensitivity...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wahlig H

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the cost-effect relationship of aciclovir prophylaxis versus early treatment, we performed a retrospective study in 44 allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients, who had only received aciclovir for therapeutic purposes. After bone marrow transplantation 18 herpes simplex infections occurred in 15 of the 3...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sinnige LG,van der Meer JW,Gratama JW,Versteeg J,Zwaan FE

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma hominis is a commensal of the genitourinary tract, which is infrequently associated with urogenital infections. Extra-urogenital infections due to M. hominis are rare. Here, we report an unusual case of M. hominis subdural empyema in a woman occurring shortly after delivery. The patient presented with sympt...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hos NJ,Bauer C,Liebig T,Plum G,Seifert H,Hampl J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of repeated episodes of Pseudomonas vesicularis bacteraemia, in a 54-year-old woman with a past history including systemic lupus erythematosus and chronic active autoimmune hepatitis is reported. She was treated with tobramycin and ceftazidime but bacteraemia persisted until surgical resection of the infected t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Planes AM,Ramirez A,Fernandez F,Capdevila JA,Tolosa C

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the most common nosocomial infection in clinical settings. For bacteria ascending to the bladder the most common route is the extraluminal, but the intraluminal route also plays a role. For this reason, we compared two urinary closed system bags (CSB), one with ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wenzler-Röttele S,Dettenkofer M,Schmidt-Eisenlohr E,Gregersen A,Schulte-Mönting J,Tvede M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc was found to have profoundly different effects upon the infection of McCoy cells (mouse fibroblasts) by two strains of Chlamydia trachomatis dependent upon the time and concentration of zinc exposure. Radiolabeled zinc-65 became McCoy cell-associated in a manner independent of incubation temperature, but highly d...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sugarman B,Agbor P

更新日期：1987-01-01 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：:Fungal resistance is caused by an acquisition of intrinsically resistant species, by selection of resistant strains from a population or by mutation of an initially susceptible strain. According to different classes of antimycotics there are different resistance mechanisms: differences in the uptake mechanisms, drug t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bernhardt H,Zimmermann K,Knoke M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous study we demonstrated that trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole decreases the prevalence of infection in patients with severe granulocytopenia. However, treatment was accompanied by a relatively high incidence of multiresistant microorganisms. We therefore conducted this study to determine whether the addition ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rozenberg-Arska M,Dekker AW,Verhoef J

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Since May 2016, WHO recommended a 9-12 month short-treatment regimen for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment known as the 'Bangladesh Regimen'. However, limited data exist on the appropriateness thereof, and its implementation in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). We report here on the pil...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ateba-Ngoa U,Edoa JR,Adegbite BR,Rossatanga EG,Madiou D,Mfoumbi A,Mevyann C,Achimi Agbo P,Mahoumbou J,Gould S,Lell B,Adegnika AA,Köhler C,Kremsner PG,Massinga-Loembe M,Alabi A,Grobusch MP

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four homosexual adult patients suffering from LAS or AIDS were investigated for immunoglobulin class- and IgG subclass-specific antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by the indirect ELISA and Western blot using monoclonal tracer antibodies. All patients revealed HIV-specific serum antibodies of IgG s...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Mergener K,Enzensberger W,Rübsamen-Waigmann H,von Briesen H,Doerr HW

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To develop recommendations for the management of acute hepatitis B by the Italian Society for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases. METHODS:Development of the recommendations divided into three levels of evidence according to the GRADE system: A (high), B (medium) and C (low experts opinion), together...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bruno R,Carosi G,Coppola N,Gaeta GB,Puoti M,Santantonio T,Taliani G,Armignacco O,Sagnelli E,Andreoni M,Angarano G,Di Perri G,D'Offizi G,Galli M,Rizzardini G,Italian Society for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases.

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HBeAg/anti-HBe system was studied as a marker of infectivity and chronic progressive liver disease in 460 hemodialysis patients. The importance of HBeAg as an index of infectivity was confirmed in that it was present simultaneously with specific DNA polymerase (31 patients) and by the presence of widely diffuse co...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Fiaccadori F,David S,Faggion G,Feriani N,Ferrari C,Franco V,Giuberti T,Grutta D'Auria C,La Greca G,Magnani G

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:In order to determine the infection rate of Chlamydia trachomatis in young males in Austria an epidemiological study was performed on 335 male Austrian soldiers attending the military hospital for a health check-up procedure. Three hundred twenty-nine (98.2%) of the screened males were clinically asymptomatic. Chlamyd...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Stary A,Steyrer K,Heller-Vitouch C,Müller I,Mårdh PA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical tolrance of 350 mg pivampicillin tablets was evaluated in 470 hospitalized patients in Denmark, Norway and Iceland. The tablets were given to 229 fasting patients and to 241 non-fasting patients at mealtime. Side-effects were reported in 44 patients (9.4%). Upper gastro intestinal disturbances occurred in...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hey H,Medalen TJ,Molstad OM,Stokholm K

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1990 a relatively high number of cases of childhood tuberculosis has been observed in Austria, mainly occurring in the age-group of 0-4 years. Within this group most cases were registered in 1995. Since the beginning of 1995 the establishment of a lab-supported nationwide data collection system enables a more de...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Makristathis A,Stauffer F,Klein JP,Rotter ML,Wewalka G,Hirschl AM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is routine practice to provide chemoprophylaxis for close contacts of a patient infected with meningococci. PATIENTS:When a 17-year-old boy living in a boys' home was admitted to the hospital with septic shock caused by Neisseria meningitidis, we immediately identified contact persons in the boys' home. ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Linde H,Glück T,Metz M,Reng C,Erlmeier S,Lehn N

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Loxoscelism is an envenomation due to a bite by spiders of the genus Loxosceles, very well known on the American continent but unrecognized in Europe. CASE REPORT:We report the case of a 36-year-old woman, without any medical history or treatment, who went to a University Hospital in the South of France, fo...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rubenstein E,Stoebner PE,Herlin C,Lechiche C,Rollard C,Laureillard D,Sotto A

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta), interleukin-6 (IL-6), interleukin-8 (IL-8) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF) are important mediators of fever and inflammation, and are involved in the pathogenesis of sepsis. There is only limited data on serum concentrations of these proinflammatory cytokines in patients with feve...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Engel A,Kern WV,Mürdter G,Kern P

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first case of Kytococcus schroeteri implant-related septic arthritis and osteomyelitis, identified by phenotypic tests and 16S rRNA sequencing, which responded to implant removal and doxycycline. 16S rRNA sequencing was useful for the accurate and rapid identification of the organism as it exhibited thre...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Chan JF,Wong SS,Leung SS,Fan RY,Ngan AH,To KK,Lau SK,Yuen KY,Woo PC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro activity of the free acid of cefetamet pivoxil (Ro 15-8075) was tested against 355 clinical isolates, namely enteropathogenic bacteria, glucose non-fermentative gram-negative rods (excluding Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and Legionella pneumophila. Ceftriaxone was included in the study as reference compound. Al...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hohl P,von Graevenitz A,Zollinger-Iten J

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An observational prospective cohort study was carried out on complication rates and time kinetics of phlebitis caused by short peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) in inpatients on 15 hospital wards in four hospitals in Cologne, Germany. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We observed 1,582 patients with 2,495 PIVCs d...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Grüne F,Schrappe M,Basten J,Wenchel HM,Tual E,Stützer H,Cologne Quality Control Network.

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythromycin ethylsuccinate was given orally (30-60 mg/kg/day) to 72 otherwise healthy children for different intervals before adenoidectomy. The concentration of erythromycin was assessed in homogenized tissue, in whole blood and in plasma, making it possible to calculate blood-free tissue levels. The tissue levels (...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sundberg L,Edén T,Ernstson S

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:To investigate the diagnostic value of a direct immunofluorescence test (DIF-test), urethral samples and first catch urine (FCU) from 153 male patients attending an outpatient clinic for sexually transmitted diseases (STD) were studied. Of the male patients, 40 (26.1%) had a positive urethral culture, 39 (25.5%) had a...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Stary A,Genç M,Heller-Vitouch C,Mårdh PA

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-existing occlusion of the inferior vena cava may complicate renal transplantation. Suppurative abdominal wall phlebitis following renal transplantation was diagnosed in a patient with pre-existing thrombosis of the inferior vena cava of unknown cause. The phlebitis developed in the subcutaneous collateral veins of...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Janssen S,van Donselaar-van der Pant KA,van der Weerd NC,Develter W,Bemelman FJ,Grobusch MP,Idu MM,Ten Berge IJ

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Influenza continues to be a considerable health problem in Europe. Vaccination is the only preventive measure, reducing mortality and morbidity of influenza in all age groups OBJECTIVES:The objective of this survey was to assess and compare the level of influenza vaccination coverage during three consecut...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Müller D,Szucs TD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00