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Susceptibility of gram positive cocci to teicoplanin. Three year survey (1984-1986) at Perugia University
No full textFrom 1984 to 1986, 1038 Gram positive cocci (865 Staphylococci and 173 Enterococci) have been tested for sensitivity to teicoplanin by the agar diffusion method: only one strain (Staphylococcus haemolyticus) resulted to have no zone of inhibition around the teicoplanin disk. All Staphylococcus haemolyticus strains showed higher MIC: 2.79 mcg/ml after 24h of incubation and 20.50 mcg/ml after 48h. The reduced teicoplanin sensitivity of Staphylococcus haemolyticus was not detected by the agar diffusion test
Ceftriaxone versus imipenem/cilastatin as empirical monotherapy for infections in cancer patients
No full textWe conducted a prospective randomized clinical trial to compare the efficacy and tolerability of monotherapy with ceftriaxone (active ingredient of Roce-phin,TM) (CRO) versus imipenem/cilastatin (I/C) in febrile cancer patients with or without neutropenia. 120 febrile episodes were randomized and 89 (75%) were évaluable for efficacy analysis. The overall response rates to both regimens were good (S6 and 79% improved in response to CRO and I/C, respectively). Overall mortality was low and similar in the two groups. Both regimens were well tolerated. Our preliminary data corroborate the efficacy of CRO or I/C as empirical monotherapy for febrile episodes in cancer patients. It will be up to future investigations to show whether one of these regimens is superior to the other. © 1989 S. Karger AG, Basel
Choroidal granuloma caused by atypical mycobacterium in a patient with AIDS: a case report.
No full textThe case presented is a chorioretinal granuloma in a patient with AIDS. The neoformation appeared to be caused by atypical mycobacterium, although it was not possible to isolate the germ. The chorioretinal infection caused by atypical mycobacterium in patients with AIDS occurs very rarely and has so far been described only as a post-mortem finding
Choroidal granuloma caused by atypical mycobacterium in a patient with AIDS: a case report
No full textThe case presented is a chorioretinal granuloma in a patient with AIDS. The neoformation appeared to be caused by atypical mycobacterium, although it was not possible to isolate the germ. The chorioretinal infection caused by atypical mycobacterium in patients with AIDS occurs very rarely and has so far been described only as a post-mortem finding
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Measurement and prediction of antimicrobial resistance in bloodstream infections by ESKAPE pathogens and Escherichia coli
No full textObjectives: This study aimed to evaluate a cumulative antimicrobial resistance index (ARI) as a possible key outcome measure of antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) and a tool to predict the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) trend. Methods: Antimicrobial susceptibility for Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter spp. and Escherichia coli (ESKAPEEc) pathogens recovered from blood cultures during a 5-year period (2014–2018) was analysed to obtain a cumulative ARI. For each antibiotic tested, a score of 0, 0.5 or 1 was assigned for susceptibility, intermediate resistance or resistance, respectively, and the ARI was calculated by dividing the sum of these scores by the number of antibiotics tested. Cumulative ARIs of ESKAPEEc micro-organisms were ompared and a mathematical prediction model for AMR trend was obtained. Results: In total, 1858 ESKAPEEc isolates were included in the study. The cumulative ESKAPEEc mean ARI increased significantly from 0.200+/- 0.01 in 2014 to 0.276+/-0.02 in 2018 (P < 0.001). In multivariable regression analysis, factors significantly associated with ARI > 0.5 were E. faecium, K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa and A. baumannii infection (P < 0.001) and infection occurring after 2014 (P < 0.05). Based on the prediction model obtained, in the absence of any interventional measure, a tendency to pandrug resistance of the ESKAPEEc group could be expected in the next 8–15 years. Conclusion: The ARI could be a useful tool to measure the impact of ASPs on AMR. The increasing incidence of AMR among ESKAPEEc organisms underscores the needing for ASPs
Lack of HIV seroconversion in a patient treated immediately with antiretroviral therapy at acute infection and virus relapse
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