Tuberculous meningitis in adults: review of 61 cases.

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:To reduce intensive care unit overcrowding and optimize resources, elderly patients affected by suspected infection with declining clinical conditions could be managed in internal medicine departments with stepdown beds. However, commonly used prognostic scores, as Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) or ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Falsetti L,Martino M,Zaccone V,Viticchi G,Raponi A,Moroncini G,Fioranelli A,di Pentima C,Martini A,Nitti C,Salvi A,Burattini M,Tarquinio N

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTI) are only rarely an indication of the presence of the disease in childhood. Of decisive importance for the detection of UTI is an appropriate investigation to determine whether there is significant bacteriuria. Since in a significant proportion of cases of UTI in ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Straub E

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of cryptococcal polysaccharides in the serum is diagnostic of cryptococcosis in the absence of rheumatoid factor. The significance of the continued detection of this antigen in the serum during antifungal therapy is not known. Prolonged antigenemia might indicate ongoing active infection, delayed clearan...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Eng R,Chmel H,Corrado M,Smith SM

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：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：:Using 44 anti-O sera 789 Escherichia coli strains isolated from the urine of patients with urinary tract infections were typed. Of the 119 E. coli strains from the urine of children, 49.6% were O-typable; only 3.4% were rough strains. Of 357 strains from pregnant women, 47% were O-typable; 12.1% were rough strains. Th...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Budde E,Naumann G,Nimmich W,Straube E

更新日期：1980-01-01 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 activity of clarithromycin in combination with ethambutol and rifampicin was tested at concentrations achievable in serum against 20 strains of Mycobacterium avium complex. The combination of clarithromycin plus rifampicin showed inhibition of 11 of the strains and bactericidal synergism against seven of the strai...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Stauffer F,Dörtbudak O,Lahonik E

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two splenectomized patients admitted with pneumonia. The course in one was complicated by overwhelming multiorgan failure when the only indicative laboratory result was seropositivity for Legionella hackeliae and Legionella longbeachae. He was initially treated with ceftriaxone and roxithromycin, followed ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Gorelik O,Lazarovich Z,Boldur I,Almoznino-Sarafian D,Alon I,Modai D,Cohen N

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to assess the integrity of non-sterile latex gloves (Biogel Diagnostic (A), Biogel Dental (B), Gentle Skin (C) and Manufix (D)) in clinical dental practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS:After use, the gloves were collected and examined for perforations using the water inflation test accord...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Pitten FA,Herdemann G,Kramer A

更新日期：2000-11-01 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：PURPOSE:Serologic testing allows for rapid detection of candidemia. More data are needed for the Virion\Serion ELISA antigen test (Ag), Hemkit Candida IHA antibody test (Ab), and Wako β-1,3-D-glucan assay (BDG). METHODS:Tests were performed on serum samples from 120 cases of culture-confirmed candidemia and 44 Candida...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Dichtl K,Seybold U,Wagener J

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：: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：OBJECT:To assess easily monitored predictors for tuberculosis mortality. DESIGN:Risk factors for tuberculosis mortality were assessed during the 8-month treatment in 440 men and 269 women diagnosed with confirmed or presumed intrathoracic tuberculosis included prospectively in Guinea-Bissau from May 1996 to April 2001...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Gustafson P,Gomes VF,Vieira CS,Samb B,Nauclér A,Aaby P,Lisse I

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During May and June 1996, an outbreak of rubella occurred offshore aboard a ship of the German Navy. The outbreak spread among 330 crew members over a period of 9 weeks, ending 2 days after the ship's return. This is the first detailed epidemiological investigation of a rubella outbreak on a ship, describing...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ziebold C,Hassenpflug B,Wegner-Bröse H,Wegner K,Schmitt HJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A follow-up study of mother to infant transmission of hepatitis B virus was conducted in the Philippines between 1981 and 1983. The prevalence of HBsAg among 527 mothers was 8.5%. Overall, seven out of 17 (41.2%) infants born to HBsAg carrier mothers became HBsAg positive within the first 12 months of life. The risk o...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Lingao AL,Torres NT,Muñoz N,Lansang MA,West SK,Bosch FX,Domingo EO

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：: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：:The distribution of mannose-resistant (MRHA) and mannose-sensitive (MSHA) fimbrial haemagglutinins was examined in 482 strains of Escherichia coli isolated from 390 adult women and 45 pregnant mothers with a variety of urinary tract infections (UTI), and from 47 healthy controls. The proportion of MRHA strains was sig...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Parry SH,Boonchai S,Abraham SN,Salter JM,Rooke DM,Simpson JM,Bint AJ,Sussman M

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical principles in the management of intraabdominal infection have remained constant. Rather, it is the application of these principles in selected cases that has varied. Judgement, therefore, becomes paramount for the surgeon. In selected cases multiple planned relaparotomies may be the most effective means of cl...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Aprahamian C,Wittmann DH

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim of this study was to evaluate whether risk factors which predict the development of candidemia may also predict death in ICU patients with candidemia. During an 8-year-period all ICU patients whose blood cultures yielded Candida species (n = 40) were retrospectively evaluated in a case-control fashion. The average...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Voss A,le Noble JL,Verduyn Lunel FM,Foudraine NA,Meis JF

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis with primers for the pp65, a-sequence, glycoprotein B, and major immediate early genes of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) was used to study five congenitally-infected infants and their CMV-infected family members. Family members excreting CMV included three mothers and two siblings...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Souza IE,Gregg A,Pfab D,Dawson JD,Benson P,O'Neill ME,Murph JR,Petheram SJ,Bale JF Jr

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae, the most important community respiratory pathogen, to beta-lactams and other first-line antimicrobial agents usually employed for the empirical treatment of lower respiratory tract infections has led to the inclusion, in several current guidelines, of a fluoroquin...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ferrara AM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced anaphylaxis is an unpredictable adverse reaction. Although it may occur with any medication, antibiotics induce more cases of anaphylaxis than any other medication class with most cases being induced by β-lactam antibiotics. Clindamycin is an antibiotic with good gram-positive and anaerobe coverage which ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bulloch MN,Baccas JT,Arnold S

更新日期：2016-06-01 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：:Indwelling urinary catheters play a very important part in urology. However, their use is accompanied by a considerable increase in the risk of nosocomial urinary tract infections. The pathophysiological cause is ascribed to pathogens that adhere to the catheter surface, proliferate and produce a biofilm. In addition ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rösch W,Lugauer S

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To prevent transmission of MRSA, eradication by antiseptic washings and nasal ointment is recommended. There are few studies, which investigated the success of eradication of MRSA carriage during everyday clinical working conditions and results are controversial. We wanted to assess the effectiveness of MRSA...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hansen D,Patzke PI,Werfel U,Benner D,Brauksiepe A,Popp W

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the presence of Mycoplasma species in patients suffering from infertility was examined. 41 women and 37 men were examined, including 31 couples, and ten single women and six single men. Samples of vaginal and cervical mucus were taken from each woman, and samples of seminal fluid from each man. Identific...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Brenciaglia MI,Cipriani P,Lilli D,Lorino G,Mancini C,Sangnier C

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00