Basidiobolomycosis: a rare case report.

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate a nitrate reductase assay (NRA) for the direct detection of multidrug resistance (MDR) in Mycobacterium tuberculosis from 100 smear-positive sputum samples. The NRA results were compared with the reference proportion method for 100 sputum specimens for which comparable results wer...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gupta M,Shamma.,Singh NP,Kaur IR

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serum samples from 465 subjects aged between 1 and 25 years were tested for antibody against hepatitis A virus (HAV) [anti-HAV IgG and IgM] to determine the seroprevalence of HAV antibody and do a cost-benefit analysis for decision making about vaccination against HAV among the general population of Bangladesh. A high...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ahmed M,Munshi SU,Nessa A,Ullah MS,Tabassum S,Islam MN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive infections due to Streptococcus dysgalactiae are uncommon in the adult population, and sternoclavicular joint septic arthritis (SCSA) is usually caused by other organisms such as Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We hereby report a case of SCSA caused by this organism. The patient responded we...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dhekane PN,Gopalakrishnan R,Sree VL,Devaprasad VD

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Raoultella is a Gram-negative bacteria, which commonly occur in the natural environment such as water, soil and on plants. In recent years, Raoultella spp. gained more interest. There is also an increasing number of publications describing mainly clinical cases involving these bacteria. Identification of Rao...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sekowska A,Mikucka A,Gospodarek-Komkowska E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the incidence and risk factors of Staphylococcus aureus colonisation in 300 treatment-naïve HIV patients. Swabs from anterior nares and pharynx were cultured. Eighty-eight patients (29.3%) were colonised with S. aureus (47.7% nasal, 23.8% pharyngeal and 28.5% at both sites), which yielded 112 isolates. Me...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Panigrahy A,Sinha S,Das BK,Kapil A,Vishnubhatla S,Dhawan B

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To characterize the prevalence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants qnr, aac(6')-Ib-cr and qep in extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) -producing E. coli and to determine the association of these determinants with CTX-M group in Cairo, Egypt. MATERIALS AND METHODS:MICs of 15 antimicrobial agen...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Hassan WM,Hashim A,Domany R

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:The TORCH infections during pregnancy are associated with adverse congenital abnormalities, poor foetal outcome and subsequent reproductive failures. The absence of baseline data on status of TORCH infections and associated foetal outcomes prompted us to conduct the current study in Central India. Materia...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Manjunathachar HV,Singh KN,Chouksey V,Kumar R,Sharma RK,Barde PV

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to isolate a novel mycobacteriophage and then explore its anti-tuberculosis (TB) potential. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Phage was isolated from enriched soil sample. A total of 36 mycobacterial strains obtained from clinical specimens were subjected to investigate the host range of phage by...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gan Y,Liu P,Wu T,Guo S

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:Levonadifloxacin is a novel benzoquinolizine subclass of quinolone with broad-spectrum activities against problematic pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, quinolone-resistant S. aureus, vancomycin intermediate S. aureus, and vancomycin-resistant S. aureus. Levonadifloxacin and its o...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Baliga S,Mamtora DK,Gupta V,Shanmugam P,Biswas S,Mukherjee DN,Shenoy S

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Enteric fever is endemic in India with Salmonella Typhi being the major causative agent. Antibiotic therapy constitutes the mainstay of management. The present study was undertaken to find the susceptibility profile of Salmonella enterica var Typhi (S. Typhi) blood isolates in a tertiary care hospital between J...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singhal L,Gupta PK,Kale P,Gautam V,Ray P

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To examine the incidence of extended spectrum b lactamase (ESbL) producing strains and multidrug resistant strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from children between 0-5 years of age. METHODS:Multidrug resistance and ESbL production was studied in a total of 120 isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae obtained ...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Subha A,Ananthan S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic options for the treatment of melioidosis caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei are limited due to the inherent resistance conferred by this pathogen to various groups of antibiotics. Witnessing an increase in the number of microbiological culture-confirmed cases of melioidosis at our settings in the past few...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Shaw T,Tellapragada C,Eshwara VK,Bhat HV,Mukhopadhyay C

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seroprevalence of Rubella was determined in 580 women including 80 women of medical community of district Amritsar, by ELISA test. The overall Rubella IgG seropositivity was 68.8% while in women of medical community it was 80%. Maximum number of women were seropositive (77.2%) in age group 26-35 years. Significantly h...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singla N,Jindal N,Aggarwal A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first case of prosthetic joint infection caused by Lysobacter thermophilus which was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Removal of prosthesis followed by antibiotic treatment resulted in good clinical outcome. This case illustrates the use of molecular diagnostics to detect uncommon organisms in sus...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Dhawan B,Sebastian S,Malhotra R,Kapil A,Gautam D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Ofloxacin (OFX) is one of the potent fluoroquinolone (FQ) recommended to treat MDR-TB. Over a decade, the preexposure of this drug for the treatment of other bacterial infections has resulted in acquisition of FQ resistance among Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. Considering this possibility, a study was unde...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Verma JS,Nair D,Rawat D,Manzoor N

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe the changes in antibiotic susceptibility patterns of common intensive care unit pathogens with time from the medical intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital. METHODS:A prospective observational study was conducted in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) of a 2100 bed tertiary care hospita...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kaul S,Brahmadathan KN,Jagannati M,Sudarsanam TD,Pitchamuthu K,Abraham OC,John G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to explore baseline data, laboratory and molecular analyses to determine if any could serve as potential prognostic marker(s) for treatment response to second line tuberculosis regimens. Of a total number of 50 multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) patients starting second-line drug MDR-...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ahmed MM,Mohammed SH,Nasurallah HA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Enteric parasitic infestation is a major public health problem in developing countries. Parasites such as Cryptosporidium spp., Cyclospora spp., Cystoisospora spp. and Microsporidia may cause severe diarrhoea among immunocompromised patients. There is scanty data on their frequency among immunocompetent patient...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Ghoshal U,Dey A,Ranjan P,Khanduja S,Agarwal V,Ghoshal UC

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:Helicobacter pylori causes various gastro-intestinal diseases. Antibiotic resistance to commonly used antibiotics for the treatment of H. pylori infection is the major cause for treatment failure. The aim of this study is to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern for clarithromycin and levofloxacin ...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mahant S,Sharma AK,Gehlot V,Mukhopadhyay AK,Chhawchharia A,Dutta S,Agarwal A,Som A,Das K,Das R

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recent years have seen a rise of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) from common contaminants to agents of nosocomial blood stream infections (BSI's). Molecular typing and establishing a correlation with antibiotic resistance is essential particularly in countries like India where genotyping studies fo...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Singh S,Dhawan B,Kapil A,Kabra SK,Suri A,Sreenivas V,Das BK

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycobacterial antigen MPB64 is a secretory protein specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. A lateral flow immunochromatographic assay (ICA) is a method used for the rapid differentiation of M. tuberculosis complex. AIM:We aimed to evaluate the performance of ICA in rapid differentiation of M. tuber...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Akyar I,Kocagoz T,Sinik G,Oktem S,Aytekin N,Kocagoz S

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to ascertain if the simple practice of Gram stain, acridine orange stain and direct sensitivity determination of positive blood culture bottles could be used to guide early and appropriate treatment in trauma patients with clinical suspicion of sepsis. The study also aimed to evalu...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Behera B,Mathur P,Gupta B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over a five year period, stool samples were screened for Vibrionaceae from cases of acute diarrhoea, to study their isolation rate and their antimicrobial sensitivity pattern. All the isolates were identified by standard laboratory techniques. A total of 323 species belonging to Vibrionaceae were isolated from 4492 st...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mathur M,De A,Saraswathi K,Varaiya A,Athalye S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varied clinical presentations of Penicillium marneffei, an opportunistic pathogen in HIV disease has been rarely described in literature. We report a patient with advanced AIDS who presented to us with prolonged fever and had features of an acute abdomen. On radiologic imaging he had features of intestinal obstruction...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： George IA,Sudarsanam TD,Pulimood AB,Mathews MS

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A study was carried out in an Indian teaching hospital in 2009 to detect the rate of surgical site infections (SSI) and peripheral vascular access site infections. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The study was a point-prevalence study involving over 300 patients. The presence of infection was determined according to the...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Sarma JB,Bhattacharya PK,Kalita D,Rajbangshi M

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hepatitis B surface Antigen (HBsAg) is the hallmark in diagnosing hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. In India many commercial assays are available for detection of HBsAg but very few can measure it quantitatively. The present study presents the comparative evaluation of two methods and their correlation with se...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Gupta E,Pandey P,Kumar A,Sharma MK,Sarin SK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A disease outbreak of A (H1N1) PDM09 was reported in Andaman and Nicobar islands in 2009 with an attack rate of 33.5% among settler population and 26.3% among the aboriginal Nicobarese tribe. During the ongoing outbreak of A (H1N1) PDM09 disease in different parts of the world, a subject working in Dubai cit...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Muruganandam N,Bhattacharya D,Chaaithanya IK,Bhattacharya H,Reesu R,Maile A,Bharathi GS,Sugunan AP,Vijayachari P

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A statistical assessment of a disease is often necessary before resources can be allocated to any control programme. No literature on seasonal trends of gonorrhoea is available from India. OBJECTIVES:The objectives were (1) to determine, if any, seasonal trends were present in India (2) to describe factors con...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Kakran M,Bala M,Singh V

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disseminated cases of histoplasmosis in acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are rarely reported from India. Most of these cases report isolation of this fungus from the bone marrow, lymph node aspirate, spleenic aspirate, and biopsies. We report isolation of Histoplasma capsulatum from the blood of an AIDS pati...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Baradkar VP,Tendolkar U,Baveja S,Kamath S

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophagocytic syndrome (HPS) secondary to infections occurs due to excessive, non-malignant proliferation of histiocytes, with resultant haemophagocytosis. The syndrome is essentially treatable, provided timely etiological diagnosis is achieved. In this report, we present a rare case of a child who hailed from Uttar...

journal_title：Indian journal of medical microbiology

authors： Mathur P,Samantaray JC,Samanta P

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00