B Rudensky

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..The method allows same-day results, does not require subculture to agar media, and can greatly assist in the selection of appropriate antifungal therapy...

..We evaluated the usefulness of CD64 as a marker for the diagnosis of bacterial infections in children up to the age of 3 years and its ability to differentiate between bacterial and viral infections...

..4%. The clonal origin of these isolates suggests that strict adherence to isolation procedure may contain this outbreak...

..1; 95%CI 1.04-1.15). These easily assessable parameters may assist in the diagnosis of bacteremic urinary tract infection and the selection of empiric antibiotic treatment, thus potentially improving a patient's prognosis...

..These findings may contribute in part to the inadvertent discharge of bacteraemic children from the emergency department...

..If found, clinical and laboratory evaluation should include determination of anti-Coxiella burnetti antibodies...

..001). Antibiotic treatment in our hospital appears to be substantial and increasing, justifying efforts to improve appropriateness of therapy and improve clinical and financial results...

..05). In conclusion, prospective surveys of nosocomial bacteraemias provide valuable information, facilitating the pursuit of successful interventions...

..Trend statistical analyses, when appropriately applied to multi-year databases of microbial susceptibilities, may yield susceptibility tables that are significantly more accurate than traditional semi-annual or annual tables...

..To determine normal concentrations of procalcitonin in preterm infants shortly after birth and to assess its accuracy in detecting bacterial infection...

..Several theories are considered to explain the results...

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..pneumonia in many patients with AMI, compared to control groups, suggests that chronic Chlamydia pneumoniae infection plays a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and acute ischemic events...

..001). Enterococcus and P. aeruginosa were significantly more often associated with asymptomatic bacteriuria. These data will help clinicians select appropriate antibiotic treatment for patients with urinary tract infections...

..The significance of extreme leukocytosis in patients presenting to hospital is uncertain...

..The method allows same-day results, assisting in the selection of appropriate antifungal therapy...

..Treatment regimens for Helicobacter pylori have variable success rates, and data comparing effectiveness with respect to strain sensitivity are relatively scarce...

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..Moreover, obtaining more than two or three blood cultures is neither helpful nor cost-effective in the initial assessment of patients with suspected endocarditis...

..Stratified trend analysis is a useful tool that can be helpful in designing and adapting clinical guidelines for the selection of appropriate empirical antibiotic treatment for the individual patient with urinary tract infection...

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..05). These data facilitate optimal selection of empirical antibiotic treatment of suspected Gram-negative infections, and may contribute to improved patient outcome and optimal use of antibiotics...

..3+/-0.6 higher than optimal. CONCLUSIONS: Oliguric and/or lasting renal toxicity is rare in elderly patients receiving once-daily aminoglycosides for <11 days, if regular trough drug levels are monitored...

..A negative D-dimer test in selected patients could be helpful in reducing the number of sonograms performed for diagnosis of DVT...

..The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of an elevated troponin in patients with bacteremia and its significance...

..However, similar findings have been reported in Egypt, indicating a possible geographic influence. There is a possible correlation between duodenal ulcer and cag E and ice A1 genotype, but the power of the study was too low to prove it...

..Our results confirm results of the Italian cohort; however, in the latter, a more universal correlation was noted and chitotriosidase levels were much higher...

..Most patients were elderly men, and the portal of entry was usually the skin or soft tissue. Our findings suggest a change in the epidemiology of bacteremia due to beta-hemolytic streptococci...

..Faced with the extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) pandemic, we compared the susceptibilities of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae to ertapenem, meropenem and piperacillin-tazobactam with and without clavulanate...

..To assess the role of procalcitonin in detecting nosocomial sepsis in preterm infants, after the onset of clinical symptoms...

..This phenomenon has been extensively described in the adult population and seems to exist in children as well...

..The role of inflammatory features in pulmonary hypertension in Gaucher disease is discussed. Further studies are required to ascertain if this approach is useful for prognosis of pulmonary hypertension...

..006). The correlation between D-dimer levels and time to defervescence, development of organ system failure and outcome was not statistically significant. We conclude that D-dimer levels at admission may predict the severity of CAP...

..OPG levels probably do not predict BMD in Gaucher disease and hence are not indicative of osteoporosis in Gaucher disease...

..Controversy exists regarding the use of second generation cephalosporins for empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia...

..To determine the rates of and risk factors for carriage and acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae during hospitalization...

..Children living in chronic care institutions are often carriers of P. aeruginosa in the respiratory tract, but data is lacking regarding gastrointestinal carriage in these children...

..To evaluate the safety and efficacy, by measuring antifactor Xa levels, of enoxaparin 1 mg/kg subcutaneously once every 24 hours in patients with severe renal failure...

..The FACS method allows single cell enzyme evaluation rather than global activity of cell lysate, and gives excellent separation between patients, carriers, and controls...

..As such, the presence of even light meconium staining in cases of rupture of membranes of even less than 6 hours in a mother who is a GBS carrier should be considered as a risk factor for the development of perinatal GBS infection...

..Given the limitations associated with the use of these substrates, a novel substrate, 4MU-deoxychitobiose, has recently been conceived...

..1 ng/ml. We conclude that low procalcitonin values are the rule during episodes of NEC and provide further evidence that overactive local immune response, and not active infection, is primarily responsible for the mucosal damage in NEC...

..These findings might have rheological consequences in terms of microcirculatory slow flow and tissue hypoxemia...

..Suppression of inflammatory processes may lead to retardation of coronary atherosclerosis and coronary events...

..001), followed by clindamycin treatment (P<0.005), diuretics (P<0.005) and older age (P<0.05). Another logistic model showed the contribution of macrolides (P<0.05) to the development of hospital-acquired diarrhoea...

..29, P = 0.001). The catheterization findings were also correlated with the ELISA D-dimer levels (r = 0.31, P = 0.02). The ELISA D-dimer test may add important clinical data concerning patients with ACS and normal cardiac enzymes...

..5 and 11% with neonatal sepsis rates of 0.2-0.9/1000 live births. Because of low colonization and disease rates, routine prenatal cultures of GBS were not recommended and intrapartum prophylaxis was mainly based on maternal risk factors...

..We find it prudent to advise people at risk for V. vulnificus infection, such as those suffering from immunedeficiency, iron overload and end stage liver or renal disease, to refrain from bathing in natural ponds whilst injured...

..We tested whether the attenuation of experimental colitis by live probiotic bacteria is due to their immunostimulatory DNA, whether toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling is required, and whether nonviable probiotics are effective...

..We conclude that this simple and new laboratory test may serve as an additional tool to predict the clinical severity of patients admitted to the ICU...

..Four patients (25%) underwent surgery and 4 out of 16 (25%) died. Moraxella should be added to the growing list of organisms which may occasionally cause infective endocarditis, even in patients without preexisting valvular abnormality...

..5; P=.005). Three of 15 babies who developed NEC died, and all NEC-related deaths occurred in control infants. CONCLUSION: Probiotic supplementation reduced both the incidence and severity of NEC in our premature neonatal population...

..There were significant correlations between D-dimers and avascular necrosis, splenectomy, and elevated TI gradient. Thus, the D-dimer assay may be potentially predictive of bone and lung involvement in Gaucher disease...