In a previous cross-sectional study, we showed that clinical staff working in a hospital had significantly higher antibody levels than nonclinical staff to Pneumocystis jirovecii. We conducted a longitudinal study, described here, to determine whether occupation and self-reported exposure to a patient with P. jirovecii pneumonia were associated with antibody levels to P. jirovecii over time. Ba...

In physical examination abdominal tenderness, gate disturbance and penile herpetic lesions were detected. Decreased disc height at T11-T12 level was detected in chest X-ray. Abdominal sonography and CT scan revealed hypo dense lesions in Lt left Lobe of liver and multiple hypo dense splenic and pancreatic lesions, ascitis, Lt left sided pleural effusion, thickening of jejuneal mucosa and edema ...

There has been significant progress in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment throughout the previous decades. However, infectious complications are still main problem during cancer treatment. Literature reports show that treatment-related mortality is 2–4% and mainly related to infection. Here, authors report a 3-year-old patient with Down syndrome ALL who was hospitalized Department of ...

276 Emerging Infectious Diseases • Vol. 9, No. 2, February 2003 the prevalence of HIV positivity among our patients is unknown, a preliminary study from Yangon shows that the prevalence of drug-resistant TB among HIV-seropositive and seronegative patients is the same (pers. comm., Myanmar national TB programs]. To our knowledge, this report is the first to describe drugresistant patterns in M. ...