Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a gram negative rod shaped bacteria which causes serious nosocomial infections in immuno-deficient populations such as HIV infected ones, patients with cancer, neutropenia and specially cystic fibrosis and stem cell transplantation recipients. This microorganism has a high mortality rate and is one of the most important agents of blood and respiratory tract infec...

Title:Prevalence of Malaria and Anaemia among HIV infected pregnant women receiving Co-trimoxazole prophylaxis-A cross sectional study in One District in Tanzania.

BACKGROUND Co-trimoxazole, clindamycin and linezolid are used to treat community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infections, but little is known about intracellular activity. Moxifloxacin is active against intracellular methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA), but CA-MRSA has not been studied. METHODS We used 12 clinical CA-MRSA, 1 MSSA overexpressing norA and ...

Sir, In their review of acquired toxoplasmosis in children, McNicholl and Flynn (Archives, 1978, 53, 414) suggest the use of sulphadimidine and pyrimethamine for treatment of generalised toxoplasmosis. We report a child with generalised toxoplasmosis who had a dramatic recovery after treatment with co-trimoxazole. An 1 1i-year-old girl presented to the hospital with an 8-week history of weight ...