A before-after study of multi-resistance and cost of selective decontamination of the digestive tract.

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：:The situation of clinical research in Europe must be improved substantially according to statements of scientists, managers and politicians. The analysis of requirements is available; however, there are no indications that the conclusion of the analysis is being converted into actual facts. Government programs, althou...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Holzheimer RG

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty patients suffering from bacteriogenic skin diseases were given cefaclor, in most cases simultaneously with classical external dermatological therapy. The results of therapy were satisfactory in 29 of the 30 patients. Only in one relatively severe case of erysipelas did the disease continue to spread despite the...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Paul E

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:This study was undertaken to compare the clinical characteristics of adult methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) meningitis and adult methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) meningitis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The clinical characteristics and therapeutic outcomes of 19 adult patients with S. aureus...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Chang WN,Lu CH,Wu JJ,Chang HW,Tsai YC,Chen FT,Chien CC

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) are thrombotic microangiopathies increasingly reported in patients with HIV infection. However, characteristic features of thrombotic microangiopathies associated with HIV disease have not been defined yet. The typical courses of HUS and T...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sutor GC,Schmidt RE,Albrecht H

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Staphylococcus aureus frequently causes infections in outpatient and hospital settings and can present as a highly variable entity. Typical manifestations are endocarditis, osteoarticular infections or infection of implanted prostheses, intravascular devices or foreign bodies. A thorough diagnostic evaluat...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Koehler P,Jung N,Kochanek M,Lohneis P,Shimabukuro-Vornhagen A,Böll B

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：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：PURPOSE:Investigation of the injecting drug users (IDUs) population is becoming extremely critical and timely in light of the recent evidence that IDUs now act as the core of hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemics in developed countries. The purpose of this article, therefore, is not only to review the epidemiology of HCV i...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ramia S,Melhem NM,Kreidieh K

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of anti-HCV antibodies and the risk factors for HCV infection were assessed in 5,672 pregnant women living in North Italy. All reactive sera were confirmed by RIBA-2 test. Anti-HCV positive pregnant women together with an anti-HCV negative control group, were interviewed by standardised questionnaire to...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Marranconi F,Fabris P,Stecca C,Zampieri L,Bettini MC,Di Fabrizio N,de Lalla F

更新日期：1994-09-01 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：:Here, we present a case of an immunocompetent 37-year old male who developed Aspergillus fumigatus osteomyelitis 16 years after extensive chest wall reconstructive surgery for Ewing sarcoma. His treatment course was complicated by a severe adverse drug reaction to voriconazole, requiring the use of oral posaconazole t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Doub JB,Mathur P

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the diagnostic utility of C-reactive protein (CRP) for the detection of sepsis in bone marrow transplantation, CRP levels were analyzed after pretransplant conditioning and variably combined in septic, focal or viral infections with graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) in 64 bone marrow recipients. The CRP lev...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rintala E,Remes K,Salmi TT,Koskinen P,Nikoskelainen J

更新日期：1997-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:A retrospective study was conducted to provide epidemiological data on hospitalization for complicated and uncomplicated chickenpox in a pediatric population. METHODS:The study analyzed hospitalization cases for chickenpox, among all the 31 Tuscan hospitals, during the period 1997-2003. RESULTS:Globally, 6...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bonsignori F,Chiappini E,Frenos S,Peraldo M,Galli L,de Martino M

更新日期：2007-12-01 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：:Penetration of ciprofloxacin into human tonsils was studied following an intravenous infusion of 200 mg over 15 minutes to adult humans undergoing tonsillectomy. Samples were taken one-and-a-half to four hours after dosing. Generally, tissue levels exceeded corresponding serum concentrations by 50% (range of intraindi...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Falser N,Dalhoff A,Weuta H

更新日期：1984-09-01 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：: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：: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：:The minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of ciprofloxacin were determined for 441 uropathogens from patients with complicated and/or hospital acquired urinary tract infections (UTI). None of the Enterobacteriaceae was resistant (MIC > or = 4 mg/l), but 21.7% of enterococci, 28.3% of Pseudomonas spp. and 38.5% of st...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Naber KG,Witte W,Bauernfeind A,Wiedemann B,Wagenlehner F,Klare I,Heisig P

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen adult patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTI) caused by gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria were treated with 2 g mezlocillin daily by i. m. injection for an average of eight days. Clinical examinations were performed daily; bacteriological and laboratory controls (blood and urine) wer...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Coimbra F

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal inhibitory concentrations of ceftizoxime, cefotaxime, moxalactam, cefoperazone, cefotiam and cefamandole were determined against various species of gram-negative bacteria and against Staphylococcus aureus. Ceftizoxime was more active against Enterobacteriaceae than cefamandole, cefotiam and cefoperazone an...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Husson MO,Courcol R,Izard D,Leclerc H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly everyone agrees that violations in research occur. Nobody knows how often. But if Pediatrics is to progress children must be the subjects of research carried out in an acceptable way. The following guidelines should be followed in childhood experimentation: (1) Research should not be done on children if the sam...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Papadatos CJ

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed 38 patients with brucellosis who were admitted to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center between 1955 and 1977, i.e. during a 23-year period. The clinical manifestations varied greatly. Diagnosis was easy when brucellosis was suspected, as in cases presenting with fever of unknown origin. In nine of the 38 ca...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Samra Y,Shaked Y,Hertz M,Altman G

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penetration of ampicillin into middle ear effusions after oral administration of 800 mg bacampicillin to patients with acute otitis media was studied and compared with the serum levels. One hour after administration a mean (+/- SEM) concentration of 2.4 +/- 0.4 micrograms/ml ampicillin was found in the effusions a...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Virtanen S,Lahikainen EA

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：: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：PURPOSE:The main purpose of this study was to examine the overall distribution of chronic comorbidities in coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) infected populations and the risk of the underlying burden of disease in terms of the case fatality ratio (CFR). METHODS:We carried out a systematic review and meta-analysis of s...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Mahumud RA,Kamara JK,Renzaho AMN

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00