Introduction. The problem of effective and safe therapy patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia prostatitis category III remains relevant, despite the numerosity drugs used in different groups. Under these conditions, search for new pharmacological agents continues. study objective was to evaluate efficacy Adenoprosin treatment lower urinary tract symptoms erectile dysfunction chronic pelvic...

INTRODUCTION An outbreak of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcal) infection complicated by concomitant influenza A on an elderly care ward was detected. CASE PRESENTATION Thirteen patients with hospital-acquired respiratory infections were investigated during the course of the outbreak investigation. Six had a positive BinaxNOW S. pneumoniae urinary antigen test and two patients had culture...

A reliable, sensitive and specific laser nephelometric (LN) assay for the quantitative measurement of specific proteins in body fluids by equivalence point titration is described. The method is relatively free from interference encountered in conventional LN assays, e.g. unspecific background scatter, antigen excess, and the inhibition of complex formation by high ionic strength and salt concen...

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic utility a novel test kit that could theoretically detect all serogroups Legionella pneumophila for diagnosing pneumonia, in comparison with existing kits.MethodsThis conducted 16 hospitals Japan from April 2016 December 2018. Three urinary antigen kits were used: (LAC-116), BinaxNOW (Binax), and Q-line Kyokutou (Q-line). In addition...