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Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infectionsBjorn Petrini
Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Laboratory, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Infect Dis 38:246-55. 2006..The spectrum of disease caused by NTM species that display a very low pathogenic potential is likely to widen over time as severe immunosuppression will continue to be prevalent in several patient categories...- Mycobacterium marinum: ubiquitous agent of waterborne granulomatous skin infectionsB Petrini
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital Solna and Karolinska Institutet, 17176, Stockholm, Sweden
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 25:609-13. 2006..Doxycycline or clarithromycin is used most commonly, although in severe cases, a combination of rifampicin and ethambutol is recommended... - Concomitant late soft tissue infections by Cladophialophora bantiana and Mycobacterium abscessus following tsunami injuriesBjorn Petrini
Departments of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Med Mycol 44:189-92. 2006..The symptoms gradually subsided in the male patient, but recurrent abscesses were noted with the female patient, from which M. abscessus was recovered despite prolonged antibiotic therapy... - [National contact tracing of tuberculosis should be introduced]Bjorn Petrini
Sektionen för mykobakteriologi, Avdelningen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Solna
Lakartidningen 102:977. 2005 - Mycobacterium abscessus: an emerging rapid-growing potential pathogenBjorn Petrini
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
APMIS 114:319-28. 2006..abscessus infection, and if conducted, it should include the removal of all foreign or necrotic material. There is increasing awareness of M. abscessus as an emerging pathogen... - [BCG vaccination--controversy and compromise]B Petrini
Avdelningen för klinisk mikrobiologi, Karolinska institutet och Karolinska sjukhuset, Stockholm
Lakartidningen 97:5618-20. 2000..If large numbers of refugees from high-endemic countries arrive in Sweden, the epidemiological situation must be closely monitored... - Early chemotherapy for non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in patients with cystic fibrosisU Forslöw
Division of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Medicine, Stockholm CF Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acta Paediatr 92:910-5. 2003..To evaluate the response rate to antimycobacterial drug therapy in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) suffering from infection by non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM)... - Extensive transmission of an isoniazid-resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in SwedenB Kan
Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 12:199-204. 2008..City of Stockholm, Sweden... - Malassezia pachydermatis fungaemia in a neonatal intensive care unitE Chryssanthou
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Acta Paediatr 90:323-7. 2001..Since no epidemiological association among the strains could be shown, the reason for this cluster of nosocomial fungaemias remains unclear... - Drug-resistant and multidrug-resistant tubercle bacilliB Petrini
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Int J Antimicrob Agents 13:93-7. 1999..In this review some aspects of epidemiology, diagnosis and mechanisms of DR in TB are discussed. MDR-TB is an important international problem of increasing significance for the whole global community... - Liposomal amphotericin B and surgery in the successful treatment of invasive pulmonary mucormycosis in a patient with acute T-lymphoblastic leukemiaM Bjorkholm
Department of Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Infect Dis 33:316-9. 2001..Early diagnostic procedures combined with high doses of liposomal amphotericin B and surgical resection may have contributed to the successful outcome... 
Vulvovaginal candida in a young sexually active population: prevalence and association with oro-genital sex and frequent pain at intercourseE Rylander
Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Karolinska Institutet Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Sex Transm Infect 80:54-7. 2004..To study the prevalence of vulvovaginal candida among sexually active adolescents. To determine past and present symptoms, including pain at intercourse and potential behavioural risk factors associated with vulvovaginal candidiasis...- PCR and other non-culture methods for diagnosis of invasive Candida infections in allogeneic bone marrow and solid organ transplant recipientsE Chryssanthou
Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Mycoses 42:239-47. 1999..Combination of several non-culture assays is needed to diagnose invasive fungal infection in high-risk transplant recipients. No single test was sufficient for diagnosis... - Complicated course of local mycobacterial infection in an immunocompetent girlB Lundberg
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Danderyd s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Scand J Infect Dis 28:99-100. 1996..Surgery was not judged possible but chemotherapy was given for 6 months during which the infection healed. It is not clear whether the regression was spontaneous or caused by the therapy...