BACKGROUND Enteric fever remains an important cause of morbidity in many low-income countries and Salmonella Paratyphi A has emerged as the aetiological agent in an increasing proportion of cases. Lack of adequate diagnostics hinders early diagnosis and prompt treatment of both typhoid and paratyphoid but development of assays to identify paratyphoid has been particularly neglected. Here we des...

introduction: presently, bacteremia is the principal cause of morbidity in patients undergoing hemodialysis. gram-negative bacteria account for approximately 50 percent of documented infections. endotoxins released during lysis of gram negative bacteremia result in inflammatory and defense response by the body and if not treated promptly result in septic shock and ultimately death of the patien...

Background: Blood culture is essential for the diagnosis and management of bloodstream infections. Blood volume is a key parameter determining the success of blood cultures. Studies comparing compliance between physicians and phlebotomists regarding optimal blood culture procedure are very rare in Korea. Methods: After educating physicians (interns) and phlebotomists about the correct procedure...

Results Significant associations of E.faecium BSI were found with age, hospital stay prior to blood culture, duration of hospitalization 1 year before admission, fever prior to blood culture, severity and duration of neutropenia, CRP (C-reactive protein) at time of blood culture withdrawal, colonization with E. faecium prior to blood culture and diarrhea. E. faecium BSIs were found associated w...

background brucellosis is a zoonotic disease that is endemic in iran. appropriate and rapid diagnosis has a vital role in public health improvement. low isolation rate of the organism has reported frequently in various reports. the present study was conducted to determine the isolation rate of organism in culture from collected specimens of hospitalized patients who were not under antibiotic th...

materials and methods the level of plasma il-6 and blood culture were checked in all the term neonates suspicious to sepsis admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit of shahid beheshti hospital of kashan during 2010-2011. positive blood culture was considered as definite sepsis and negative blood culture as suspicious sepsis. then, the level of il-6 was compared with the state of blood cultu...