Correction to: The diagnosis and treatment of urogenital schistosomiasis in Italy in a retrospective cohort of immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa.

abstract：:A panel of leading Italian specialists in infectious diseases, obstetrics and gynaecology met in a national consensus workshop on women facing HIV to review critical aspects and discuss recommendations for selected key questions on four issues: (1) women and highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART): access to care...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Carosi G,Nasta P,Fiore S,Matteelli A,Cauda R,Ferrazzi E,Tamburrini E,Savasi V,Bini T,Ravizza M,Bucceri A,Vichi F,Murri R,Mazzotta F,d'Arminio Monforte A,Italian Working Group for the Women with HIV Management Guidelines.

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 1998, an unexpected increase of group A streptococci (GAS) in blood cultures was observed at our institution. MATERIALS AND METHODS:To determine whether they were from unrelated sporadic cases or attributable to a common source, all isolates were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and by...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Brunner S,Fleisch F,Ruef C,Altwegg M

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experimental infections in animals and their chemotherapy are dependent on a variety of experimental conditions and parameters which may be themselves interrelated; the type and number of infecting organisms, the nature of the infection, the antibiotic chosen for therapy and its administration schedule can influence t...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Rolinson GN

更新日期：1980-01-01 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

abstract：:A guinea pig model of experimental Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia was used to evaluate factors affecting the efficacy of passive immune therapy with Psomaglobin N, a hyperimmune P. aeruginosa globulin. Animals treated 2 h after infection with a single intravenous infusion of Psomaglobin N, 500 mg/kg, demonstrated 33...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Pennington JE,Pier GB

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is defined as S. aureus genetically having the mecA or mecC genes or phenotypically showing minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of oxacillin higher than 2 mg/L. However, recently, cefoxitin/oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positive S. aureus (OS-MRSA) has been rep...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Saeed K,Ahmad N,Dryden M,Cortes N,Marsh P,Sitjar A,Wyllie S,Bourne S,Hemming J,Jeppesen C,Green S

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：: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：: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: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：:Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a well-defined clinical syndrome attributed to certain exotoxins produced by Staphylococcus aureus. The acute episode is often characterized by a toxic encephalopathy, possibly caused by direct neurotoxicity of these exotoxins, although this mechanism has never been proven. We describe a ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Arend SM,Steenmeyer AV,Mosmans PC,Bijlmer HA,van't Wout JW

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Risk factors for nosocomial candidemia, severity of sepsis, treatment, and outcome were compared between patients admitted to medicine wards and those to surgical and intensive care units (ICUs). METHODS:Data were retrospectively collected from patients belonging to six referral hospitals in Italy between Janu...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Luzzati R,Merelli M,Ansaldi F,Rosin C,Azzini A,Cavinato S,Brugnaro P,Vedovelli C,Cattelan A,Marina B,Gatti G,Concia E,Bassetti M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:Cefodizime was evaluated for its effect on a number of parameters of leukocyte function in humans. Four healthy volunteers received 2 g i.v. b.i.d. for seven days. Leukocyte activity was measured before, during and after treatment. Using opsonized zymosan as a stimulant, no effect on the respiratory burst of granulocy...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Limbert M,Müllner H,Shah PM

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the cost-effect relationship of aciclovir prophylaxis versus early treatment, we performed a retrospective study in 44 allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients, who had only received aciclovir for therapeutic purposes. After bone marrow transplantation 18 herpes simplex infections occurred in 15 of the 3...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sinnige LG,van der Meer JW,Gratama JW,Versteeg J,Zwaan FE

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：:Staphylococcus aureus is recognized as one of the major causes of infections in humans occurring in both the community and the hospital. Up to now one of the most serious aspects as far as treatment of S. aureus infections is concerned is resistance to methicillin, which in clinical terms indicates resistance to all b...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hryniewicz W

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dysbiosis does not necessarily mean disease. Typical clinical picture of disease caused by metabolic activity of dysbiotic microflora is the microbial over-growth syndrome. We studied case histories of 434 patients without consideration of their basic illnesses and correlated them with types of dysbioses of duodenal j...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Knoke M,Bernhardt H

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevalence and incidence of Helicobacter pylori infection among 250 Italian military students were studied using specific IgG antibodies. Subjects susceptible at enrollment were evaluated during a 10-month follow-up period, when two serum samples were collected after 5 and 10 months, respectively. Samples were also an...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Biselli R,Fortini M,Matricardi PM,Stroffolini T,D'Amelio R

更新日期：1999-05-01 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 question of whether ampicillin and sulbactam are able to penetrate sufficiently into costal cartilage tissue was investigated in 21 children undergoing surgery for funnel chest malformations. The concentrations of both compounds were determined in the core and mantle pieces of samples taken 45 min or 120 min after...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Meier H,Springsklee M,Wildfeuer A

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

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：:Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), a primary immunodeficiency caused by impaired phagocyte killing of intracellular pathogens, is characterized by recurrent, life-threatening, bacterial and fungal infections. As a result of improvements in microbiologic culture and identification techniques, a number of unique filam...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Shigemura T,Nakazawa Y,Amano Y,Sudo A,Watanabe M,Kobayashi M,Kobayashi N,Koike K,Agematsu K,Nishimura K

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is very less information on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and viro-immunological outcome over calendar years in Italy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We performed an analysis of a prospective observational cohort (MASTER) to assess antiretroviral drug use in first line HAART and explore whether initial ...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Sighinolfi L,Torti C,Zeni C,Ghinelli F,Suter F,Maggiolo F,Antinori A,Antonucci G,Castelnuovo F,Ladisa N,Migliorino M,Novati S,De Luca A,Lo Caputo S,Paraninfo G,Tinelli C,Carosi G,Italian MASTER Database Cohort.

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) and interleukin 6 (IL6) are cytokines with a varied spectrum of inflammatory and immunological activities, for example modulation of acute phase proteins, fever and stimulation of B-lymphocytes. Mycobacterium avium has been shown to stimulate the release of TNF alpha and IL6 fro...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Stauffer F,Petrow EP,Burgmann H,Graninger W,Georgopoulos A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of an 11-month-old male infant who had been BCG vaccinated as a neonate. At the age of nine months, he developed a localized tumor above his right mamilla. The tumor destroyed the fourth rib and infiltrated the surrounding soft tissue. X-ray and CT scan suggested a malignant neoplasm. Histology, ho...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Hoppe JE,Orlikowsky T,Klingebiel T,Niethammer D

更新日期：1992-03-01 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：: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：: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：:Thrombocytosis is rarely observed during infection. We are describing a patient with acute osteomyelitis and bacteremia who developed thrombocytosis. In the patient described the platelet count paralleled the activity of the infection and the response to therapy. The causes of thrombocytosis and its implications are b...

journal_title：Infection

authors： Robey C,Chmel H

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00