Meningitis, pneumonia, and sepsis in newborns and young infants (age < 60 days) are the main causes of childhood mortality in developing countries. Even though streptococcus pneumonia is the most commonly detected microorganism in pediatric bacterial meningitis, it is rare in newborn infants. The following article reports a case of pneumococcal meningitis that was detected early in a newborn in...

A term newborn was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit immediately after the birth, with respiratory distress due to congenital pneumonia. With progression of respiratory symptoms, empyema thoracis was diagnosed due to the right massive purulent pleural effusion in chest X ray. Treatment was fulfilled by ventilator support and pus drainage by means of two chest tubes and appropriate an...

ICU is growing but the methodology is still under development and subject to debate [1-3]. Ventilatorassociated pneumonia (VAP) seemed to come close to being an important, valid, reliable, responsive, interpretable and feasible outcome parameter [3]. We therefore decided to measure VAP incidence on a regular basis. A prospective study was carried out with yearly assessment of the incidence of V...

this study was carried out at the razi institute during 2005-2006 with inspecting 12168 lung tissue of slaughtered sheep and goats at the ziaran abattoir. pneumonia were diagnosed in 282 cases and the affected lung tissue was collected and transferred to the bacteriology and pathology departments for isolating of pasteurella spp. and interpretation of histopathologic lesions. pasteurella multoc...

  This study was carried out at the Razi Institute during 2005-2006 with inspecting 12168 lung tissue of slaughtered sheep and goats at the Ziaran Abattoir. Pneumonia were diagnosed in 282 cases and the affected lung tissue was collected and transferred to the Bacteriology and Pathology Departments for isolating of Pasteurella spp. and interpretation of histopathologic lesions. Pasteurella mult...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of nosocomial pneumonia in autopsies at a public university hospital; to identify the risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia and the potential prognostic factors associated with fatal nosocomial pneumonia and with fatal aspiration pneumonia; and to determine whether anatomopathological findings correlate with nosocomial pneumonia or aspiration pneumonia. M...