meningitis or pulmonary infection in immunocompromised patients

... Table Description of x-ray findings X-ray finding Description Suggestive Infiltrate or cavities in one of more segments of superior lobes and /or superior segments of lower pulmonary lobes, miliary ... are increased due to the need for installing and maintaining IR [15-17] IR are still scarce and infection control measures in health care facilities are at an early stage of development in most ... by typical or possible X-ray findings and atypical findings (Table 1) Typical were those considered as having any parenchymal infiltrate or cavity localized in the upper zone (defined as the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

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Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... and Auramine staining were performed by standard techniques (8) Cultures Mycobacterial growth indicator tubes (Becton Dickinson, Sparks, MD) containing both 10% OADC (oleic acid, albumin, dextrose, ... in media color from blue to pink MIC was defined as the lowest drug concentration at which no blue-to-pink color change was observed MICs for the panel of six anti-TB drugs were determined for ... person-to-person spread of resistant strains makes isolation a high priority for preventing transmission TST testing was not useful in identifying the group in need of screening Anergy, which was common...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Analysis Cases were imported to SPSS 14.0 for Windows® Data was analysed using Chi-Squared testing Patients were grouped into categories for ’age’ and ’time from original injury’ Values are given ... Post-operative MRSA infection stabilised in 2006, with the number of UK MRSA related deaths peaking at 1652 in 2006, up from 51 in 1993 Changes in reporting practices comprise a proportion of this ... (RR) of 8.0 for MRSA colonisation in patients from NHS nursing homes, compared to patients from private care homes Much of the evidence for United Kingdom guidelines for MRSA prevention in healthcare...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... blood donors that is consistent with Kao et al findings (2002) [12] Considering the reports of the replication of the virus in liver cells and the failure of manifesting clinical signs in infections ... higher than previous reports On the other hand rarely it resembles to 75% of SENV infection reported in Japan by Yoshida et al (2002) [16] Wide ranges of infection is reported in intravenous drug users, ... and thalassemic patients, patients on maintenance hemodialysis, HIV positive and individuals with liver disease [12,17,18] Ninety-eight percent of SENV infection in thalassemic patients is similar...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... were also more common in patients with abdominal infections than in those with respiratory infections Secondary infections were more common in patients with abdominal infections (70 patients, ... abdominal infection Secondary infections were defined as infections occurring more than 24 hours after onset of a preexisting infection, at a site other than the abdominal or respiratory system for ... in patients with abdominal infections Mortality rates in studies of infection and sepsis in the ICU are quite variable In studies in surgical ICUs, ICU mortality rates in patients with abdominal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... pylori infection was lower in patients with bleeding This negative interaction suggests a protective effect of H pylori infection, lowering the risk of gastrointestinal bleeding in ulcer patients ... demonstrated intrafamilial clustering of H pylori infection The studies on family aggregation of the infection provide a model for investigating transmission and the natural history of initial infection ... Summary xviii INTRODUCTION 1.1 H pylori infection begins within families 1.2 H pylori infection in paediatrics 1.2.1 Prevalence during childhood 1.2.2 Association with recurrent abdominal pain (RAP)...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... Therefore for economic reasons,41 fluorescence microscopy is currently recommended only in district laboratories that process more than 30 smears per day2 or in regional laboratories where more ... especially in resource-constrained settings that 2045 Public Health have high HIV infection rates Sputum culture of HIV-infected patients needed more incubation time than that of patients without HIV infection, 47 ... many patients with HIV infection and active tuberculosis54 including children,23 and has also been noted as an important cause of fever among patients in hospital in settings with high HIV infection...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... be colonized or infected with fluconazole resistant strains Interestingly, a link between mycobacterial infections and oropharyngeal candidiasis in HIV-infected patients has been reported The prevalence ... MIC: minimum inhibitory concentration; NHRI: National Health Research Institutes; CLSI: Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; IRB: Institutional Review Board Competing interests Authors' ... Health Research Institutes Susceptibility tests The MICs to fluconazole were determined according to the guidelines of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) for in vitro antifungal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... suspected infection; three or more signs of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) (two or more signs of SIRS for pediatric patients) ; and evidence of one or more sepsis-induced organ dysfunctions ... pediatric, patients with MEN seemed to be at an increased risk for developing intracranial hemorrhage • These findings should be borne in mind when considering DrotAA in the management of adult patients ... with two or more organ dysfunctions (for example in the European Union) or at high risk of death in the USA (for example an APACHE II score of 25 or more), mortality as well as SBEs for DrotAA-treated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:21

... California Pandemic (H1N1) Working Group: Factors associated with death or hospitalization due to pandemic 2009 influenza A(H1N1) infection in California JAMA 2009, 302:1896-1902 ANZIC Influenza Investigators, ... shedding in lymphopenic patients [5] Abbreviations ICU, intensive care unit; IQR, interquartile range Competing interests EA is a member of the French and European boards of Pfizer Inc (New York, ... cephalosporin; CI, calcineurin inhibitor; FQ, fluoroquinolone; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease; ICU, intensive care unit; MMF, mycophenolate mofetil; MV, mechanical ventilation; NIV, non-invasive...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... implicated in allograft reinfection: 1) rapid reinfection by HBV in the circulation of the recipient and /or 2) reinfection from HBV replicating in extrahepatic sites [29] Since the former mechanism ... considered protective if maintained indefinitely [7,72] In the initial multicenter, European report, the rate of recurrent infection in patients receiving HBIG was directly correlated with the amount ... for a minimum of months post-OLT After one year, reinfection occurred in 20% of patients in each group, but the finding of circulating HBV DNA by PCR in of 11 receiving HBIG and of 10 receiving...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17

... patients in addition to pulmonary tuberculosis had extra pulmonary tuberculosis, in form of meningitis, peritonitis and colitis Crit Care & Shock 2011 Vol 14, No Laboratory/microbiology testing ... confirm these findings on clinical presentations and outcomes of patients with active pulmonary tuberculosis Conclusion In emerging nations infections such as tuberculosis requiring intensive care ... less common diagnosis in the study Similar findings have been reported in other studies (12,19) Laboratory and microbiological testing were carried out as confirmatory to the clinical presentation...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... There were 42 patients (17 in the internal medicine department, in the surgical department, and 21 in the ICU) in stage I, and 12 patients (all in the internal medicine department) in stage II ... ACF that included patients who coughed weeks or more [18] Researchers of TB among Canadian Plains Aborigines argued that diagnostic procedures be initiated for patients who cough for more than ... their initial clinical examinations However, in Stage II, doctors ordered TB examinations for 90% of TB patients before a COS alarm This difference might due to the increased awareness of TB in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... TB illness or complication resulting from TB disease or treatment as estimated from the difference in self-reported monthly patients and household income in the periods before and during TB illness ... vulnerable Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors’ contributions All authors were involved in the conceptualization of the study NU participated in the data ... Figure Histogram showing variations in the average total income lost and in the total time spent by patients educational attainment 113.51 respectively Lost in individual patient incomes did not...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... who are coughing up tuberculous bacilli is forming a chain of transmission of infection and identification of smear positive cases is a major detrimental factor in finding or predicting the magnitude ... and patients with raised ESR and X-ray chest finding suggestive of pulmonary tuberculosis like abnormal shadows, cavitation, and /or abnormality in the lymph nodes were included Patients having ... described low haemoglobin, normal or high TLC and raised ESR as the haematological findings in tuberculosis patients ESR was elevated in majority of patients; only 13.46% of patients had an ESR...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... number of polymorphic genes coding for cytokines or for cytokine receptors have been investigated in a case control study including a group of 40 Iranian PTB patients and 40 healthy individuals ... cluster increases and T allele at codon 10 of TGF-¾ decreases in PTB patients Key words: Cytokine, PCR-SSP, Polymorphism, Tuberculosis INTRODUCTION A recent study by Hussain et al using a diluted ... VOL NO Summer 2004 127 Cytokine gene polymorphism in Pulmonary TB Table Cytokine gene polymorphism in Iranian PTB patients and normal controls Cytokines Position IL-1¿ -889 IL-1¾ -511 +3962 IL-1R...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... loss, sweating, fatigue, chronic cough, sputum and respiratory distress The laboratory findings including the results of tuberculin skin test, Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), hemoglobin level, ... (TLC), used in order to determine the stage of HIV was less than 1200/mm3 in 46.6% of the cases; this finding indicates symptomatic patients in advanced stages CD4 count was available for 28 patients ... show atypical CXR findings In addition, normal and traditional typical findings of tuberculosis are not sensitive indicators of the disease in this special group of patients In conclusion, this...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... risk for HIV infection were routinely offered HIV testing; testing was not offered 28 Chapter Two: Inpatient HIV-associated morbidity and mortality routinely to all inpatients According to World ... population Pulmonary infections are the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected individuals (2;3) A microbiological diagnosis is of crucial importance in HIV infected patients with pulmonary ... was to find the aetiological pathogens of pulmonary infections in HIV infected patients presenting with pulmonary infection Furthermore, we correlated the pathogens identified with clinical and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... subject heading or as free text in title and ‘course’ as free text in title or abstract or one of the other terms as subject heading or as free text in title { Occuring as duplicate either within search, ... contain any useful information, as they had a very general title including only ‘‘tuberculosis’’ and ‘‘mortality’’ or ‘‘research’’ or ‘‘annual report’’ and appeared in regional journals or were ... (cohort) studies Diagnosed patients are individually followed–up over time and their mortality and morbidity experience recorded Inevitably there is some kind of selection (bias) involved in such...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20