The "Choosing Wisely" initiative in infectious diseases.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging cause of autochthonous-acute-hepatitis and acute-on-chronic-liver-failure in western countries. Treatment is not routinely used, despite ribavirin has a good antiviral effect. In vitro sofosbuvir inhibits HEV replication, but clinical data are lacking. CASE REPORT:We...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Biliotti E,Franchi C,Spaziante M,Garbuglia AR,Volpicelli L,Palazzo D,De Angelis M,Esvan R,Taliani G

更新日期：2018-10-01 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：: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：:A comparison was made between the Septi-Chek "Release" system containing saponins, standard BacT/Alert blood culture bottles and FAN BacT/Alert blood culture bottles for culturing CAPD fluids. Seventy-seven CAPD effluent specimens were tested. No differences could be found. Therefore, lytic agents are not necessary wh...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wüst J,von Graevenitz A

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The rise in the standard of living of the Israeli population during recent decades has been accompanied by a significant decline in the prevalence of various viral diseases including hepatitis A (HAV). This trend is not reflected in the seroprevalence of herpes simplex (HSV) infection, which has remained sta...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Katz J,Gdalevich M,Ashkenazi I,Chaushu G,Shemer J

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of a 13-year-old girl with CVI is presented who required steroid treatment for myositis. After three weeks of treatment, the serum IgM level increased about ten-fold. Specific antibodies to vaccination antigens, which despite adequate vaccination were absent prior to any kind of treatment, could be synthesize...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wahn V,Grosse-Wilde H,Rosin H,Carls C,Göbel U

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The agar diffusion method was used to test the antibacterial efficacy of cefaclor against bacterial strains isolated routinely from patients in two hospitals in Berlin. A comparison was made with the efficacy of oxacillin, azlocillin, amikacin, gentamicin, ampicillin, co-trimoxazole, tetracycline, penicillin, cefazoli...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Wagner J,Hahn H

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results obtained during the investigation on the excretion of nine urinary antigens originating in the kidney and characterized by monoclonal antibodies and of the brush-border marker-enzyme alanine aminopeptidase in the urine of 12 volunteers before and during the administration of therapeutic doses of ciprofloxa...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Falkenberg FW,Mondorf AW

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated from three of 100 prostatic tissue specimens obtained from patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate. All examined patients were free from symptoms of urethral or prostatic inflammation. Our findings are in accordance with the high incidence of asymptomatic chlamydi...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Dan M,Samra Z,Siegel YI,Korczak D,Lindner A

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six hundred and fifteen Swedish soldiers (X = 24.9 years) serving with the UN forces in Cyprus were tested for antibody against hepatitis A (anti-HAV) before and after six months' service. Before the service, a high susceptibility to hepatitis A was found, as only 2.3% (14/615) had anti-HAV. In comparison, the prevale...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Weiland O,Berg JV,Bäck E,Lundbergh P

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of ten different 4-quinolone antibacterial agents against Escherichia coli KL16 was investigated at four pH values between 5.6 and 8.3, which is the pH range of urine. It was found that pH affected the minimum inhibitory concentrations of all the drugs, but the nature of the substituent at the C7 position...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Smith JT,Ratcliffe NT

更新日期：1986-01-01 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：:Pefloxacin was applied to a newborn suffering from ventriculitis caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae after failure of routine antibiotics. Treatment was successful. Blood and CSF levels were high, thus documenting good CSF penetration. In addition to this case report, a review of the literature regarding seven neonates wi...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Linder N,Dagan R,Kuint J,Keler N,Keren G,Reichman B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neglected tropical diseases are becoming more and more frequent in Europe due to the increasing immigration from endemic areas. Nonetheless specific treatments are scarcely available in many European countries, since they are neither officially licensed nor marketed. Only a few referral health centres can afford to ac...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Calleri G,Angheben A,Albonico M

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Boffito M,Ryom L,Spinner C,Martinez E,Behrens G,Rockstroh J,Hohenauer J,Lacombe K,Psichogyiou M,Voith N,Mallon P,Branco T,Svedhem V,dÁrminio Monforte A

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial activities of two ureidopenicillins, azlocillin and mezlocillin, were compared with those of the alpha-carboxypenicillins, carbenicillin and ticarcillin, against a large number of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. All four penicillins were active against a wide range of bacteria including Pse...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Basker MJ,Edmondson RA,Sutherland R

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：: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：:By means of restriction endonuclease digests and DNA/hybridisation studies we analysed ten representative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains of our collection for plasmid similarities and plasmid associated resistance determinants. We found that strains isolated at our laboratory contained identical o...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Gatermann S

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical efficacy and tolerance of cefixime were investigated in an open, uncontrolled trial. 200 mg of cefixime were applied twice daily, duration of therapy was between eight and 14 days (mean value 10.1 days, standard deviation +/- 1.4 days). Ten male patients (mean age 42.7 years) and 19 female patients (mean age ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Theopold M,Benner U,Bauernfeind A

更新日期：1990-01-01 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:Current data on the risk of transmission of 2009 H1N1 Influenza in public transportation systems (e.g., public trains, busses, airplanes) are conflicting. The main transmission route of this virus is thought to be via droplets, but airborne transmission has not been completely ruled out. METHODS:This is a c...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Piso RJ,Albrecht Y,Handschin P,Bassetti S

更新日期：2011-04-01 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：:Clinical features of liver involvement due to Listeria monocytogenes infection in adults are rarely reported in literature. This is surprising, regarding the current opinion that the portal system is extensively involved in the first stages of pathogenesis in invasive L. monocytogenes disease. A literature search in t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Scholing M,Schneeberger PM,van den Dries P,Drenth JP

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum and sputum concentrations of ampicillin or amoxycillin were measured in patients admitted to hospital for acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis with purulent sputum. Mean peak serum levels of nearly 12 mg/l were found after 1600 mg bacampicillin (mean peak level in sputum 0.85 mg/l). The serum and sputum con...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Davies B,Maesen F

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:The aim of the study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combined treatment with natural leukocyte interferon alpha (Alfaferone) plus ribavirin in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Twenty-three patients (15 women, 8 men) aged 17-68 years hospitalized in 2005-2008 were included...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kozielewicz D,Dybowska D,Halota W,Dróżdż W

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：BACKGROUND:The optimal strategy to prevent cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease after kidney transplantation continues to be open to debate. The preemptive approach requires regular determination of CMV viremia and prompt initiation of therapy. METHODS:We retrospectively compared the incidence of CMV disease during two perio...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Greiner M,Cusini A,Ruesch M,Schiesser M,Ledergerber B,Fehr T,Mueller NJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 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