abstract：:A limited number of antifungal agents including azoles, polyenes, pyrimidine analogues are used today to combat infections caused by yeast pathogens. While clinical factors can contribute to failures to antifungal treatments, yeast pathogens exposed to these agents can still limit their action either because they are ...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Sanglard D

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery refers to a very brief course of an antimicrobial agent initiated just before the start of the procedure. The efficacy of antimicrobials to prevent postoperative infection at the site of surgery (incisional superficial, incisional deep, or organ/space infection) has been demonstrat...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Cisneros JM,Rodríguez-Baño J,Mensa J,Trilla A,Cainzos M,Grupo de Estudio de Infeccion Hospitalaria (GEIH) de la Sociedad Espanola de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica (SEIMC).

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Immigration is a recent phenomenon in Spain. Certain subgroups of the immigrant population may be vulnerable to acquiring sexually transmitted infections (STI). MATERIAL AND METHODS:Descriptive study of the seroprevalenceof certain STI (HIV, hepatitis B and syphilis) and the general characteristicsn of pers...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Vall Mayans M,Arellano E,Armengol P,Escribà JM,Loureiro E,Saladié P,Sanz B,Saravanya M,Vall M,Villena MJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To prospectively study the emergence and diagnostic problems of bronchiolitis caused by influenza A virus among children durign the 1999-2000 influenza epidemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Negative respiratory syncitial virus (RSV) specimens (ELISA dot-blot) were seeded in the MDCK cell line for the isolation of...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Reina J,Ballesteros F,Mesquida X,Galmes M,Ferres F,Ruiz De Gopegui E

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Spain, together with the other southern European countries, was considered to be an area with a moderate degree of endemia. This fact has consequences for tourists that visit these areas and for vaccination strategies. A prevalence study was proposed in order to get to know the situation of this infection in...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： González-Praetorius A,Rodríguez-Avial C,Fernández C,Teresa Pérez-Pomata Mf M,Gimeno C,Bisquert J

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Injury and infection are characterized by the activation of the acute phase proteins response. C-reactive protein (CRP), an acute phase protein, has been mentioned as an useful indicator of infection and sepsis in critically ill patients. OBJECTIVE:To study the evolution of serum CRP in patients with severe...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Flores JM,Jiménez PI,Rincón D,Márquez J,Navarro H,Muñoz A,Murillo F

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:[corrected] a) To identify Citrobacter strains following the conventional biochemical reaction of Brenner and col; b) to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of the O'Hara's method compared with Brenner's method, and c) to determine the rate and distribution of the strains in the clinical isolates. MATER...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Manganello S,Tayara A,Perazzi B,Neira L,Famiglietti A,Pugliese L,Santini P,Vay C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability of MIC values of imipenem against gramnegative rods obtained with the automated system WalkAway-98 (MicroScan, Dade, USA). MATERIAL AND METHODS:One-hundred and seventy three consecutive clinical isolates of Gram-negative rods for which the MIC of imipene...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Fernández F,Martínez L,Pascual A,Perea EJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We describe the cases of endocarditis caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (EAA) observed at our hospital. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We revised clinical records and microbiological documents from patients admitted at our hospital, with A. actinomycetemcomitans in blood cultures occurred from 1972-1998....

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Belloch SL,Salavert M,Lacruz J,López-Aldeguer J,Pérez-Bellés C

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This paper reports a clinico-epidemiological and microbiological investigation conducted into an outbreak of gastrointestinal infection due to Salmonella enteritidis, where the most likely food vehicle was spaghetti a la carbonara. METHODS:An historic cohort study was conducted out among persons exposed t...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Godoy P,Artigues A,Usera MA,González JL,Pablo N,Agustí M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Use of selective Clostridium difficile culture as a diagnostic method for C. difficile associated disease requires to prove the toxigenic ability of the isolates. Toxin B detection by cell culture assay after growing the microorganism in enriched broth is the standard method, but it delays the final diagnosi...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： García A,Pérez JL,Pulido A,Niubó J,Pérez P,Martín R

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main objective of HAART is to achieve a complete suppression of the viral replication for long time. However, when the therapeutic drug levels are low, HIV can replicate and it can develop resistances. This fact can be the reason of treatment failure, HIV transmission of resistant strains and therefore an inapprop...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Knobel H,Codina C,Miró JM,Carmona A,García B,Antela A,Gómez-Domingo MR,Arrizabalaga J,Iruin A,Laguna F,Jiménez I,Rubio R,Lluch A,Viciana P

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Francisella tularensis is a facultative intracellular gramnegative aerobic coccobacilli which is difficult to isolate. The appearance of an epidemic outbreak of tularemia in Castilla y Leon (Spain) during the first months of 1998 led bur microbiology laboratory to develop the diagnostic methods of this disease whi...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Labayru C,Palop A,López-Urrutia L,Avellaneda C,Mazón MA,Alberte A,Pascual PP

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Infectious pharyngotonsillitis is usually managed with antibiotics by general practitioners and pediatricians both in primary care and the emergency services. In the present work we try to assess the antibiotic variability and appropriateness in the management of acute pharyngotonsillitis among several emerge...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Lázaro A,Ochoa C,Inglada L,Eiros JM,Martínez A,Vallano A,Armadans L,Bautista Vidal J,Artero A,Ruiz A,Cerdá T,Guerra L

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori infection is probably the most common chronic bacterial infection in the world. The consequences of infection are pathologies like peptic ulcer, chronic gastritis, gastric cancer and gastric MALT lymphoma. The aim of this study was to detect the vacuolating cytotoxin gene (vacA) type, the...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Gómez J,Elizalde JI,Marco F,Bordas JM,Piqué JM,Jiménez de Anta MT

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence-based medicine (EBM) analyses scientific evidence for the efficacy/effectiveness of health interventions. It aims to identify and implement available interventions that have proved to be the best. This concept is now soundly established for clinical interventions, but just breaking for prevention, p...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Guerra-Romero L,Noguer I,Bolea A,Suárez M,Parras F

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the possible viral etiology in 139 infants with lower respiratory tract infection who required hospitalization in the Infant Unit of our hospital, from October 1994 to June 1995. PATIENTS AND METHODS:139 patients were admitted, aged from 13 days to 14 months, during this period. The etiological agen...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Fortea J,González-Cuevas A,Juncosa T,García-Fructuoso MT,Martínez F,Muñoz C,Gené A,Latorre C

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diarrhea associated with Clostridium difficile is a health care problem of growing importance in the last few years specially in the hospital environment. The epidemiologic data and factors associated with this disease have not, to date, been sufficiently studied in Spain. METHODS:The cases of diarrhea asso...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Barreiro PM,Pintor E,Rosario Burón M,Díaz B,Valverde J,de la Torre F

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptococcus agalactiae or streptococcus group B (SGB) is the main etiologic agent of early neonatal sepsis. A multicenter study was performed with the aim of determining the incidence and characteristics of this disease in our medium and contribute the design of an adequate prevention protocol. METHODS:Te...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Juncosa T,Bosch J,Dopico E,Guardia C,Lite J,Sierra M,Andreu A,Barranco M,Matas L,Sánchez F,Sanfeliu I,Viñas L

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the number of strains of classic enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) that have the eae gene, that is considered a pathogenicity factor. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The presence of the eae gene has been evaluated on 62 EPEC strains of ten different serogroups, isolated from children with gastroenteritis. R...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Frías C,Margall N,Mirelis B,Prats G

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnosis usefulness of antibodies detection against different specific antigens of H. pylori (Hp) in children by a Western-blot commercially available (Helicoblot 2.0). MATERIAL AND METHODS:96 symptomatic paediatric patients in two groups were studied. Group 1: 48 ...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： López-Brea M,Alarcón T,Domingo D,Sánchez I,Martínez MJ,Sanz JC

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Word Health Organization (WHO) has recommended epidemiologic surveillance of infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in high risk populations. An important decrease has recently been observed in the prevalence of HIV infection in drug addicts in different regions in Spain with notable differe...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Alba A,Terán A,Cuende JI,Sánchez S,González C

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of the immune response to rotavirus infection and the characterization of the viral antigens recognized by specific antibodies are of great concern in evaluating the protection against rotavirus. MATERIAL AND METHODS:The levels of rotavirus-specific fecal (sIgA) and serum antibodies (IgM, IgG a...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Colomina J,Raga J,Gil MT,Buesa J

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal parasite infections are very frequent in HIV patients with severe immunodeficiency (CD4 < 100/mm3) causing chronic diarrhea and malabsorption in the majority of cases. The most frequent microorganisms are microsporidia and Cryptosporidium parvum while Cyclospora cayetanensis and Isospora belli are more prev...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Moreno-Camacho A,López-Vélez R,Muñoz Sanz A,Labarga-Echevarría P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This review summarizes the different species of dermatophytes isolates in our laboratory between 1991 and 1995. We describe the clinical forms and establish the distribution over this period of time. METHODS:Retrospective survey of samples from outpatients of the Dermatology Service in Miguel Servet Hospita...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Fortuño B,Torres L,Simal E,Seoane A,Uriel JA,Santacruz C

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this paper is to review the epidemiological, clinical and therapeutical characteristics of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) epiglottitis in children at a time when an efficient and safe vaccination is available. METHODS:The clinical histories of 21 children admitted to Children's Hospital La F...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： del Carmen Otero M,Sanchís N,Modesto V,Pérez-Tamarit D,Asensi F,Santos M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of intravascular devices in the usual and daily clinical practice, used as diagnostic or as therapeutic means, is a reality nowadays, present in all hospitals of our medium, and it is increasing. In the area of intensive care, it constitutes a routine and prolonged procedure, and its contribution within the ho...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： León C,Sánchez MA,Lucena F

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnosis of respiratory tract infections due to Chlamydia trachomatis in pediatric patients is very important because of its complications and sequelae. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the performance of rapid methods for reading this diagnosis in 111 children with lower acute respiratory disea...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Savy V,Vizioli N,Baumeister E,Josiowicz A,Cadario E

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraabdominal infections are severe with a high morbidity and mortality which may be produced by multiple causes: perforation of the empty viscera, intestinal inflammatory processes, vascular pictures, abdominal traumatisms as a consequence of surgery. From a microbiologic point of view, different types of gram posit...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Cainzos Fernández M

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In recent years an increase has been observed in the prevalence of meningococcal infection by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C and in the appearance of strains with moderate resistance to penicillin. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A microbiologic study of the cases of meningococcal infection of serogroup C treated ...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Ursua MI,Rodríguez-Mayo M,Fernández-Quintairos J,Domínguez D,Luaces J,Agulla A

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genetic and molecular mechanisms involved in antimicrobial resistance of 10 strains of gramnegative bacilli (1 Serratia marcescens; 2 Escherichia coli; 1 Proteus mirabilis; 4 Klebsiella pneumoniae; 1 Enterobacter cloacae y 1 Alcaligenes faecalis), isolated from adult patients with nosocomial pulmonary in...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Araque M,Nieves B,Ruiz O,Dagert M

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mortality of severe tetanus (grades II-III) remains high today, being greater than 20% with a large number of complications, due to the lengthy stay of these patients in the ICU. METHODS:A review of 13 cases of severe tetanus over the last 5 years was performed analyzing age, entrance, previous immuniza...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Camacho JA,Jiménez JM,Díaz A,Montijano A,Quesada JL,Montiel D

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine variability, if exists, in interleukin-6 (IL-6) response by different cell cultures stimulated by Borrelia burgdorferi. METHODS:Five human embryonic diploid fibroblast cell lines (three of them of lung origin) and four human synovial cell cultures were used. Induction of IL-6 was made with B. b...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Ponte C,Gadea I,Vallejo JC,Soriano F

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy and safety of cotrimoxazol plus rifampicin in staphylococcal osteoarticular infection. METHOD:Open, non-comparative study of adult hospitalized patients with documented staphylococcal bone infection. RESULTS:From Feb 1989 to Dec 1993 28 episodes of staphylococcal bone infection were...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Sánchez C,Matamala A,Salavert M,Cuchí E,Pons M,Anglés F,Garau J

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determinate the bactericidal activity of vancomycin, rifampicin, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone and their double and triple combinations against penicillin and third generation cephalosporin-resistant. Streptococcus pneumoniae strain. METHODS:A study of the bactericidal activity of antibiotics alone and in comb...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Tubau F,Liñares J,Ardanuy C,Martínez-Lacasa J,Fernández A,Cabellos C,Fernández-Viladrich P,Martín R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extrapulmonary tuberculosis is a relatively frequent disease in patients with HIV infection. This may be observed coinciding with pulmonary involvement or without diagnostic data of the same. Within extrapulmonary involvement, gastrointestinal involvement is one of the least frequently observed and its diagn...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Pintor E,Piret MV,Velasco M,Barreiro P,Ruiz M,Blanco J

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and antibiotic sensitivity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae versus penicillin, tetracycline, cefoxitin, ceftriaxone and spectinomycin from 1988 to 1994 in the province of Soria (Spain). METHODS:From January 1988 to December 1994, clinical samples of 57 strains of...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Nebreda T,Merino FJ,Campos A,Vázquez M

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of colloidal gold probes widely used in histochemistry and electronic microscopy for the serologic diagnosis of syphilis. METHODS:One hundred eighty-nine sera which had been submitted to the traditional fluorescent trigenemic absorption (FTA-ABS) test and...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Burgos JD,Mendoza M,Vinasco J,Hernández R

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A 5-year study in patients with cystic fibrosis was carried out in order to gain a better understanding of the microbiological factors influencing clinical status and evolution. METHODS:Fifty-two patients were evaluated (mean age 16.6 years, range 0-36) during a 5 years-period (July 1988- July 1992). The cl...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Ballestero S,Escobar H,Suárez L,Baquero F

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is an endemic parasitosis in Spain with a frequency which is increasing, specially among those patients with HIV infection. METHODS:The clinical characteristics of 36 episodes of VL in 20 patients with HIV infection diagnosed in the authors' center from January 1988 to October 19...

journal_title：Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica

authors： Ribera E,Cucurull E,Ocaña I,Vallespí T,Gasser I,Juste C

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00