Invasive listeriosis in a patient with several episodes of antibiotic associated colitis presumably due to Clostridium difficile.

abstract：:In an open randomised crossover study the antibacterial activity of pefloxacin and norfloxacin was assessed in the urine after a single 800-mg oral dose in 14 healthy female volunteers. Pefloxacin demonstrated lower peak concentrations in the urine than norfloxacin (mean, 217.2 mg/l versus 492.9 mg/l as determined by ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hofbauer H,Naber KG,Kinzig-Schippers M,Sörgel F,Rustige-Wiedemann C,Wiedemann B,Reiz A,Kresken M

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The case of an HIV-infected patient with low CD4+ cell count and localized pulmonary infection associated with Mycobacterium tilburgii, a recently recognized atypical mycobacterial species, is reported. Diagnosis was confirmed by repeated detection of mycobacterial DNA in lung biopsy specimens. After surgical removal ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kolditz M,Halank M,Spornraft-Ragaller P,Schmidt H,Höffken G

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Satisfactory methods for the serodiagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis have been widely discussed in recent years. Until a decade ago, the complement-fixation test measuring group-specific antibody was the most widely applied technique. However, despite showing relatively high diagnostic sensitivity in systemic chlamydia...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Treharne JD

更新日期：1982-01-01 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：:Material from 50 patients with purulent otitis media was investigated. All patients had undergone surgical operation. The results indicate that anaerobic non spore-forming bacteria, especially gram-negative rods of the family Bacteroidaceae, may play an important role in the aetiology of purulent otitis media. In a fu...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hudác A

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of cefodizime (CDZ) on CD4 and CD8 lymphocytes was investigated in patients with lower respiratory tract infection and underlying respiratory diseases. Ten men and one woman were treated with CDZ 1 g i.m. b.i.d. for ten days. The infecting organisms were Haemophilus influenzae (5), Streptococcus pneumoni...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Valcke Y,Van der Straeten M

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Fungal infections in patients with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) are a poor prognostic factor. We describe the first case of CGD with femoral osteomyelitis due to Cladophialophora arxii, which is a member of the dematiaceous group. The causative fungus was identified on the basis of its morphological characteris...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Shigemura T,Agematsu K,Yamazaki T,Eriko K,Yasuda G,Nishimura K,Koike K

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent literature on clostridial infections of animals and infections due to gram-negative anaerobic rods is reviewed. It is stressed that quite recently the literature is concerned with animal models for the evaluation and study of the chemotherapy, immunity mechanisms and pathogenesis of Fusobacterium and Bacter...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Goldberg HS

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We examined lymphocyte apoptosis, activity of caspases-1, -3, -8 and -9 and the relationship between those two events and inflammation response in septic shock. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Blood samples were obtained within 24 h after diagnosis of septic shock from 16 patients to measure apoptosis, caspases-3, -8...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Delogu G,Famularo G,Tellan G,Marandola M,Antonucci A,Signore M,Marcellini S,Moretti S

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To quantify the relative antibacterial efficacy of beta-lactam antibiotics in vitro, a mathematical description of bacterial growth was developed. Curves of growth in the presence of the antibiotic are expressed as quadratic functions of time, with initial growth rate (ko) and rate of change of growth (a) as concentra...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Mattie H,van der Voet GB

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：INTRODUCTION:In the time of increasing resistance and paucity of new drug development there is a growing need for strategies to enhance rational use of antibiotics in German and Austrian hospitals. An evidence-based guideline on recommendations for implementation of antibiotic stewardship (ABS) programmes was developed...

journal_title：Infection

authors： de With K,Allerberger F,Amann S,Apfalter P,Brodt HR,Eckmanns T,Fellhauer M,Geiss HK,Janata O,Krause R,Lemmen S,Meyer E,Mittermayer H,Porsche U,Presterl E,Reuter S,Sinha B,Strauß R,Wechsler-Fördös A,Wenisch C,Kern

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After intravenous injection of single doses of 1.0 g of cefpirome (HR 810) and multiple doses of 1.0 g b.i.d. for five days to the same ten healthy male volunteers in an open design, concentrations of unchanged drug were estimated at various times in serum and urine, over 24 h and 48 h, respectively. Cefpirome concent...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Malerczyk V,Maass L,Verho M,Hajdú P,Klesel N,Rangoonwala R

更新日期：1987-05-01 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：:Raoultella ornithinolytica is increasingly being isolated as a causative organism in human infections. Most of the infections caused by R. ornithinolytica are hospital acquired and occur in patients who are immunocompromised, had invasive procedures or have indwelling catheters. This is a first report of early onset n...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Abbas A,Ahmad I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative Staphylococcus that causes skin and soft tissue infections and occasionally life threatening endocarditis of native valves. Prosthetic valve infection due to this pathogen is very rare and has not been described in HIV infected individuals. We report on the first case...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kourbeti IS,Alegakis DE,Roditakis GE,Samonis G

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old girl with a 2-month history of fever and abdominal pain was admitted to our hospital. Ultrasound and CT scans of the abdomen showed multiple hypoechoic lesions of liver and spleen. Screening for zoonosis revealed high positive titers to Bartonella henselae. T-cell deficiency was demonstrated and remained...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Kahr A,Kerbl R,Gschwandtner K,Heinzl B,Lackner H,Schwinger W,Stünzner D,Lindbichler F,Urban EC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the immunofluorescence technique in 187 patients with bacteriologically proven prostatitis according to the Meares-Stamey test demonstrated a significant amount of antibody-coated bacteria (ACB) in their ejaculates. The ACB test was useful to discriminate between chronic bacterial prostatitis and prostatodynia w...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Riedasch G,Möhring K,Ritz E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Cardiac involvement in dengue fever is underdiagnosed due to low index of clinical suspicion and its contribution to hemodynamic instability in severe dengue is not well known. METHODS:A prospective observational study was conducted among admitted patients ≥ 14 years of age having confirmed dengue fever. Patie...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bhatt M,Soneja M,Farooqui FA,Singla P,Vikram NK,Biswas A,Roy A,Wig N

更新日期：2020-12-01 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：PURPOSE:SARS-COV-2 infection can develop into a multi-organ disease. Although pathophysiological mechanisms of COVID-19-associated myocardial injury have been studied throughout the pandemic course in 2019, its morphological characterisation is still unclear. With this study, we aimed to characterise echocardiographic ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Bieber S,Kraechan A,Hellmuth JC,Muenchhoff M,Scherer C,Schroeder I,Irlbeck M,Kaeaeb S,Massberg S,Hausleiter J,Grabmaier U,Orban M,Weckbach LT

更新日期：2021-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical course, serological changes and the development of the specific cell-mediated immune response to Epstein-Barr-Virus (EBV), measured in terms of leukocyte migration inhibition, were followed in 40 children suffering from an EBV infection. The patients were followed for between six and 24 months. Although t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Timár L,Budai J,Koller M

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculous epididymitis is a rare entity associated with minor complications. We present two cases of tuberculous epididymitis associated with serious complications (bilateral psoas abscesses and Addison's disease with psoas abscess). A review of the literature disclosed six additional cases associated with serious c...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Skoutelis A,Marangos M,Petsas T,Chionis I,Barbalias G,Bassaris H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report concerns a case of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) with atypical immune response affecting an infant whose mother had repeated evidence of immunity before pregnancy. Laboratory diagnosis of CRS could only clearly be achieved by virus isolation after the second month of life despite typical clinical featu...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Weber B,Enders G,Schlösser R,Wegerich B,Koenig R,Rabenau H,Doerr HW

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:A case of appendicitis followed by reactive arthritis in an HLA B27-positive, 29-year-old man after infection with Yersinia enterocolitica is reported. Infection with Y. enterocolitica was diagnosed by determination of serotype specific antibodies and antibodies to Yersinia outer membrane proteins. Bacteriological cul...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Ström H,Johansson C

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both aciclovir and brivudin are effective in the treatment of immunocompromised children with varicella-zoster virus infection. To determine which drug is preferable, a prospective randomized trial aciclovir vs. brivudin was conducted. Forty-three immunocompromised children were randomly assigned to receive aciclovir ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Heidl M,Scholz H,Dörffel W,Hermann J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are presenting a new case of meningitis due to the Micrococcus luteus species. This germ was isolated twice in eight days from the CSF of a 57-year old woman. The patient had a ventriculoperitoneal shunt implanted for hydrocephalus following a meningeal haemorrhage. Antibiotic therapy was efficient but the patient ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Fosse T,Peloux Y,Granthil C,Toga B,Bertrando J,Sethian M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most efficient route of transmission of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is through contaminated blood. Sexual transmission or other close human contact could play a role in sporadic infections. We describe a case of acute hepatitis C progressing to chronic hepatitis over a follow-up of 4 years in a 44-year-old w...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Orlando R,Lirussi F

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00