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| M WeinbergerSummaryAffiliation: Tel Aviv University Country: Israel Publications
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West Nile fever outbreak, Israel, 2000: epidemiologic aspectsM Weinberger
Internal Medicine C and Infectious Diseases, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva 49100, Israel
Emerg Infect Dis 7:686-91. 2001..The countrywide spread, number of hospitalizations, severity of the disease, and high death rate contrast with previously reported outbreaks in Israel...
The significance of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteraemia compared with Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteraemia: risk factors and outcomesE Robenshtok
Department of Medicine E, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel
J Hosp Infect 64:282-7. 2006..e. those who were not ventilated and those who did not present with septic shock. These results support the view that nosocomial bacteraemia due to A. baumannii is associated with increased mortality...
Excess mortality in women with hospital-acquired bloodstream infectionL Leibovici
Department of Medicine, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petah-Tiqva, Israel
Am J Med 111:120-5. 2001..The excess mortality was concentrated in women with severe underlying disorders, suggesting that sepsis might have accentuated differences in the outcome of underlying disorders in women...
Peritonitis due to Thermoascus taitungiacus (Anamorph Paecilomyces taitungiacus)A Korzets
Department of Nephrology, Golda Campus, Beilinson Campus, Rabin Medical Center, Petach-Tikva, Israel
J Clin Microbiol 39:720-4. 2001....
Isolated endogenous endophthalmitis due to a sporodochial-forming Phialemonium curvatum acquired through intracavernous autoinjectionsM Weinberger
Internal Medicine C and Infectious Diseases, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel
Med Mycol 44:253-9. 2006..This case expands the spectrum of infections due to Phialemonium species, and reveals a novel way of developing fungal endophthalmitis...
Characteristics of candidaemia with Candida-albicans compared with non-albicans Candida species and predictors of mortalityM Weinberger
Internal Medicine C and Infectious Diseases, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel
J Hosp Infect 61:146-54. 2005..When shock was excluded from analysis, antifungal therapy was shown to be protective. Unlike previous concerns, infection with Candida species other than C. albicans has not been shown to result in an increased fatality rate...
Blood invasiveness of Salmonella enterica as a function of age and serotypeM Weinberger
Internal Medicine C and Infectious Diseases, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel
Epidemiol Infect 132:1023-8. 2004..The tendency of NTS serotypes to invade the bloodstream was significantly influenced by the patient's age, however the impact of age differed for various NTS serotypes...
Acinetobacter baumannii: emergence and spread in Israeli hospitals 1997-2002M Paul
Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Campus, Petach Tikva, Israel Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
J Hosp Infect 60:256-60. 2005..Multi-drug-resistant A. baumannii has the potential to reach endemicity in hospitals and warrants more vigorous and innovative efforts to limit its spread...
Possible benefit of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in a lung transplant recipient with West Nile virus encephalitisA Hamdan
Internal Medicine B, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Petach-Tikva 49100, Israel
Transpl Infect Dis 4:160-2. 2002..This is the second case of an immunosuppressed patient responding to the same preparation of intravenous immunoglobulins. Larger studies are required in order to establish the therapeutic role of immunoglobulins in patients with WNF...
Amphotericin B--not so terribleJ Bishara
Department of Internal Medicine C, Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Petach Tikva, Israel
Ann Pharmacother 35:308-10. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: In some patients, paradoxically, lipid formulations of amphotericin B may be less tolerable than conventional amphotericin B...
Unilateral vocal cord paralysis as a result of a Nocardia farcinica laryngeal abscessE Cohen
Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Petach Tikva, Israel
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 19:224-7. 2000..The English-language literature on human Nocardia farcinica infection is reviewed...
