Clinical characteristics of Raoultella ornithinolytica bacteremia.

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：: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：:Fifty-six patients suffering from severe and very severe bacterial infections received additional antibacterial treatment with mezlocillin following abdominal or chest surgery. There were 18 intestinal-peritoneal infections, 15 pleuropulmonary infections, seven patients with sepsis, six localized abscesses and ten pat...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Amgwerd R,Rauh G,Sonnabend W

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of antibody assays for viruses of the herpes group (HSV, EBV, VZV and CMV) and for hepatitis B virus (HBV) were retrospectively evaluated in 439 HIV-seropositive patients classified into different stages of HIV infection. The prevalence of specific IgG, IgM and IgA antibodies in these groups was compared w...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Enzensberger R,Braun W,July C,Helm EB,Doerr HW

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacokinetics of six quinolone derivatives were investigated in the human and dog prostate. The possible therapeutic applications of these findings are discussed. ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Madsen PO,Aagaard J

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined patients attending an STD clinic (Department of Dermatology, Lasarettet, Lund). Chlamydia trachomatis was demonstrated in 26% of 2021 male patients by culture from the urethra (using cyclo-heximide-treated McCoy cells). The corresponding figure for Neisseria gonorrhoeae was 15%. Both organisms were found i...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Thelin I

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Based on previous studies, enterococcal infective endocarditis (IE) is considered a unimicrobial, community-acquired disease of older Caucasian men. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We evaluated the relationship between enterococcal bacteremia and IE by comparing clinical and demographic characteristics of all cases of...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Anderson DJ,Murdoch DR,Sexton DJ,Reller LB,Stout JE,Cabell CH,Corey GR

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Treatment of congenital cytomegalovirus infection is mandatory in cases with severe systemic and/or neurological involvement. However, some patients are paucisymptomatic, with very subtle systemic manifestations and/or minimal brain alterations. Current international guidelines do not clearly state whether these child...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Garrido-Barbero M,Arnaez J,Garcia-Alix A

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：OBJECTIVES:We wanted to assess the diagnostic accuracy of urinary dipstick testing in excluding catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients with fever or hypothermia. METHODS:This was a prospective observational cohort study in a medical-surgical ICU. Patients with new-ons...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Coman T,Troché G,Semoun O,Pangon B,Mignon F,Jacq G,Merceron S,Abbosh N,Laurent V,Guezennec P,Henry-Lagarrigue M,Revault-d'Allonnes L,Ben-Mokhtar H,Audibert J,Bruneel F,Resche-Rigon M,Bedos JP,Legriel S

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1990, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) was diagnosed in 15 adult HIV-negative haematologic patients in our hospital. None of them had received PCP prophylaxis. All except one had been treated with prednisone. Symptoms usually started after stopping or tapering. In six patients the diagnosis of PCP was delaye...

journal_title：Infection

authors： van der Lelie J,Venema D,Kuijper EJ,van Steenwijk RP,van Oers MH,Thomas LL,von dem Borne AE

更新日期：1997-03-01 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：:We describe a 66-year-old woman hospitalized with fever, fatigue and hepatopathy. In her medical history arterial hypertension (treated with propranolol and lisinopril), diabetes mellitus type 2 (no treatment before admission) and a gout arthropathy were noted wherefore a therapy with allopurinol 300 mg per day has be...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Khanlari B,Bodmer M,Terracciano L,Heim MH,Fluckiger U,Weisser M

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microorganisms become attracted to polymer surfaces for a number of reasons including positive charge of biomaterial or concentration of nutrients on the biomaterial surface. Many bacteria additionally possess specific receptors for the interaction with extracellular host protein components that adhere on th...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Freytag CC,Thies FL,König W,Welte T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an open, randomized study, the effect of pefloxacin (400 mg b.i.d.) was compared with that of cefotaxime (1 g t.i.d.) in the treatment of complicated urinary tract infections. In total 87 patients entered the study under the clinical diagnosis of complicated urinary tract infection, of whom 49 were eligible for eva...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Timmerman C,Hoepelman I,de Hond J,Boon T,Schreinemachers L,Mensink H,Verhoef J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large outbreaks of diphtheria occurred recently in the former USSR. Between 1989 and 1994, a total of about 600,000 Soviet immigrants arrived in Israel. The immune status against diphtheria in a sample of 992 men aged 17-49 and 195 women aged 17-19, who arrived in Israel during 1990-91, was studied in order to evaluat...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Low M,Almog R,Green MS,Ashkenazi S,Bercovier H,Katzenelson E,Ashkenazi I,Shemer J,Cohen D

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspiration pneumonia (AP) and primary lung abscess (PLA), are diseases following aspiration of infectious material from the oropharynx or stomach. An antibiotic therapy, also covering anaerobic pathogens, is the treatment of choice. In this study we compared moxifloxacin (MXF) and ampicillin/sulbactam (AMP/S...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ott SR,Allewelt M,Lorenz J,Reimnitz P,Lode H,German Lung Abscess Study Group.

更新日期：2008-02-01 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 use of covered stents in an infected field is controversial. It is generally recommended that infected aneurysms be treated using autografts or allografts. We report a case of infected brachial pseudoaneurysms that developed after medical debridement of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)-infected...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kurimoto Y,Tsuchida Y,Saito J,Yama N,Narimatsu E,Asai Y

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:We report a unique case of sacral Capnocytophaga canimorsus abscess successfully treated with surgery and antibiotics. Close contact to a dog was assumed to be the most likely source of infection. Established risk factors for invasive C. canimorsus infection such as splenectomy, alcoholism or overt immunosuppression c...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Joswig H,Gers B,Dollenmaier G,Heilbronner R,Strahm C

更新日期：2015-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:In recent years, several reports have suggested, but never definitely demonstrated that dental units (DU) could be potential sources of viral cross-infections sustained by viral agents including HBV, HCV and HIV. This work aims at assessing the risk of HCV cross-infection by dental unit water lines (DUWLs). ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Artini M,Scoarughi GL,Papa R,Dolci G,De Luca M,Orsini G,Pappalardo S,Costerton JW,Selan L

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Turicella otitidis and Corynebacterium auris, described as new species 20 years ago, have been isolated mainly from the external ear canal and middle ear fluid. While their taxonomic position has been clearly established, their diagnosis in the routine laboratory is difficult. The question of their pathogenic potentia...

journal_title：Infection

authors： von Graevenitz A,Funke G

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Ten patients about to undergo a colorectal operation lasting an average of three hours received 500 mg each of imipenem and cilastatin i.v. preoperatively. During the operation blood and tissue samples were taken in order to determine the serum kinetics of the substances as well as the levels of imipenem in the cutis,...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Erttmann M,Krausse R,Ullmann U

更新日期：1990-11-01 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