Background Endoscopic lung volume reduction (eLVR) is a therapeutic option for selected patients with COPD and severe emphysema. Infectious exacerbations are serious events in these vulnerable patients; hence, prophylactic antibiotics are often prescribed postinterventionally. However, data on the microbiological airway colonization at the time of eLVR are scarce, and there are no evidence-base...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate whether periodontopathogens are transmitted from husband to wife or vice versa. MATERIALS AND METHODS We tested the microbiological profile of 9 couples married for at least 10 years suffering from periodontitis. The microbiological analysis provides the quantification by Real-Time PCR of six main periodontopathogens, including P. gingivalis, T. de...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Microbiological follow-up is part of quality control of peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) manipulation. DESIGN AND METHODS We prospectively studied microbiological cultures performed in 865 consecutive untreated autologous PBSC harvests from 348 patients. Our aim was to know the rate of microbiological contamination, the optimum moment to evaluate the sample and the ...

Both fluorometric and microbiological measurements of urinary riboflavin excretion have served as a basis for evaluation of nutritional status, detection of deficiency states, measurement of physiological availability, and determination of daily requirements. Fluorometric assay methods have commonly followed three basic procedures; namely, (a) that of Najjar (l), based on the extraction of ribo...

BACKGROUND Worldwide, the aim of managing water is to safeguard human health whilst maintaining sustainable aquatic and associated terrestrial, ecosystems. Because human enteric viruses are the most likely pathogens responsible for waterborne diseases from recreational water use, but detection methods are complex and costly for routine monitoring, it is of great interest to determine the qualit...

patients and methods for this clinical trial, patients with fever plus either dysuria, frequency, flank pain or flank tenderness were enrolled. having performed urinalysis (u/a), urine culture (u/c) and antibiogram, they were randomly assigned in two groups: ceftriaxone 1gr twice a day or cefazolin 1gr trice a day. three days later, urine was re-evaluated and patients were categorized as clinic...

BACKGROUND Patients treated for hematological malignancies have an increased risk of serious infections. Diagnosis and prompt initiation of therapy are essential. Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is a well-established investigation for identifying the cause of pulmonary infiltrates in immunocompromised patients. The aim of the study was to determine the diagnostic yield of BAL in patients treated f...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The present study is aimed to describe short-term results on selected microbiological and clinical parameters obtained by treatment with soft laser in conjunction with methylene blue and/or mechanical subgingival debridement in human periodontal disease. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten patients, in whom each dental quadrant was randomly designated to receive on...

VÁZLEROVÁ M., STEINHAUSEROVÁ I. (2006): The comparison of the methods for the identification of pathogenic serotypes and biotypes of Yersinia enterocolitica: Microbiological methods and PCR. Czech J. Food Sci., 24: 217–222. In this study, pathogenic strains of Y. enterocolitica were identified by microbiological and PCR methods. The samples were collected from pigs, cattle, poultry, and slaught...

This article describes the first identification of Corynebacterium xerosis from animal clinical specimens, which was confirmed by microbiological and molecular genetic (16S rRNA gene sequencing) methods.