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- POST-SURGICAL INFECTIONS: Averting postsurgical infections in kids: Give antibiotics within hour before first incision
Giving children preventive antibiotics within one hour before they undergo spinal surgery greatly reduces the risk for serious infections after the surgery, suggests a Johns Hopkins study to be ...
- HIV & TUBERCULOSIS: HIV seroprevalence among new TB patients in the civilian and prisoner populations of Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Abstract After the Russian Federation, Ukraine is the country of the Former Soviet Union experiencing the greatest epidemics of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, although complete official data are not ...
- INFECTION CONTROL: -Effect of the first bath with chlorhexidine on skin colonization with Staphylococcus aureus in normal healthy term newborns
Abstract A masked randomized clinical trial was conducted in 93 neonates who received the first bath with chlorhexidine (experimental) (n=44) or neutral liquid soap (control) (n=49). Three samples ...
- INVASIVE PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS: -Trends and geographical variation in invasive pneumococcal infections in Finland
Abstract We evaluated regional variation and trends in invasive pneumococcal infections (IPI) in Finland by using data from national, population-based laboratory surveillance and number of blood ...
- TUBERCULOSIS: -Clinical evaluation for diagnosing active TB disease and transitional change of two commercial blood tests
Abstract We compared the usefulness of TST, QFT-TB and T-SPOT.TB for the identification of patients with active tuberculosis (TB) disease and investigated transitional change in both tests ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -Diagnosis-prescribing surveys in 2000, 2002 and 2005 in Swedish general practice: Consultations, diagnosis, diagnostics and treatment choices
The aim of this study is: to present diagnostic patterns diagnostics used and antibiotic treatment in relation to guidelines in 3 repeated diagnosis-prescription studies conducted simultaneously ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -Effect of timing of amantadine chemoprophylaxis on severity of outbreaks of influenza a in adult long-term care facilities
Background. Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are vulnerable to outbreaks of influenza. There are limited data on the impact of antiviral chemoprophylaxis on the duration of outbreaks of ...
- CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES:- NEUROLOGY: -Cerebrovascular complications in patients with left-sided infective endocarditis are common: a prospective study using magnetic resonance imaging and neurochemical brain damage markers
Background. Cerebrovascular complications (CVCs) have remained a major therapeutic and prognostic challenge associated with infective endocarditis, and definite risk factors have not been ...
- AFRICAN TRYPANOSOMIASIS: -Novel markers for treatment outcome in late-stage trypanosoma brucei gambiense trypanosomiasis
Background. To date, no biological marker for treatment outcome in human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) has been described. The accuracy of biological markers for prediction of treatment ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -Advanced survey of tuberculosis transmission in a complex socioepidemiologic scenario with a high proportion of cases in immigrants
Background. An increase in the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in immigrants has changed the socioepidemiologic scenario in Spain. It is generally assumed that TB in immigrants is the ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -An outbreak of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli associated with sushi restaurants in Nevada, 2004
Background. In August and November 2004, 2 clusters of diarrhea cases occurred among patrons of 2 affiliated sushi restaurants (sushi restaurant A and sushi restaurant B) in Nevada. In ...
- NEUROSURGERY & INFECTOLOGY: -Characteristics and treatment outcome of cerebrospinal fluid shunt-associated infections in adults: a retrospective analysis over an 11-year period
Background. Data on infections associated with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunts among adults are limited. Therefore, we performed a retrospective study of shunt-associated infections in ...
- INFECTOLOGY: Difficulties for primary health care staff in interpreting bacterial findings on a device for simplified urinary culture
Abstract The reliability of interpretations of findings from dip-slide devices for culturing urine was investigated in a national Swedish external quality assessment (EQA) programme. Also ...
- INFECTOLOGY & ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE: - European league-tables for antibiotic resistance revealed
Tests of antibiotic resistance in cattle have revealed stark variation across thirteen European countries. The results, published today in BioMed Central's open-access journal Acta Veterinaria ...
- INFECTOLOGY: -Japanese encephalitis virus causes 'double trouble' to brain
Japanese encephalitis (JE), commonly known as brain fever, is one of the prevalent mosquito-borne encephalitis in India and entire South East (SE) Asia. Besides resulting in thousand fatalities each ...
