Blood stream infections caused by Candida glabrata are difficult to manage. We describe a patient who underwent an allogeneic peripheral stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukaemia. The patient developed C. glabrata fungaemia that was refractory to liposomal amphotericin B therapy. After changing the therapy to caspofungin, blood cultures became sterile within two days and the patient...

Clinical isolates of Escherichia coli were examined for the presence of hydroxamate siderophore (aerobactin). The incidence of aerobactin-positive strains of E. coli from the blood was greater than the incidence of these strains isolated from other sites. The presence of aerobactin and the virulence of strains of E. coli in urinary tract infection were also examined in mice. The presence of aer...

conclusions overall, we found that obi was rare, but that the prevalence of obi was slightly higher in jiangsu than in other areas of china. methods all donor samples were routinely screened by double enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) for hepatitis c virus (hcv), hepatitis b virus (hbv), human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), treponema pallidum (tp), and alanine aminotransferase (alt). sin...

conclusions our new metabolic conditioning supplement, whether given pre- or postoperatively, led to better perioperative glycemic control and decreased postsurgical wound infections in non-diabetic patients. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a new conditioning supplement on perioperative metabolic stress and clinical outcomes in non-diabetic patients. patient...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The major challenge for a burn team is nosocomial infection in burn patients, which is known to cause over 50% of burn deaths. Most studies on infection in burn patients focus on burn wound infection, whereas other nosocomial infections in these patients are not well described. We undertook this study to determine three types of nosocomial infections viz., burn wound infe...