this study was planned to determine hiv seroprevalence among pulmonary tuberculosis patients, to characterize the isolated mycobacteria into typical and atypical strains and to evaluate the drug resistant pattern of mycobacterial isolates. the study aims to correlate multidrug resistance (mdr) and hiv seropositivity status in pulmonary tuberculosis patients. during the year 1994-1997, 750 pulmo...

conclusion the high discriminative power of hsp65 pattern particularly hpaii digestion, provide an exact and costeffective method for rapid identification of m. simiae strains among registered pulmonary cases. results of 962 culture positive specimens, 17(1.7%) were identified as m. simiae species; majority of them were multidrug-resistance (12; 70.5%). the overall detection rate by tb11, tb12 ...

purpose: to present a case of delayed-onset unilateral keratitis due to actinomyses israelii after laser in situ keratomileusis. patient and findings: a 28-year-old lady was referred to our clinic with foreign body sensation and mild blurring of vision in her left eye. she had undergone bilateral lasik about five months ago. on examination, there was an area of infiltration at the interface wit...

Despite decontamination, overgrowth by pseudomonads renders cultural isolation of mycobacteria from respiratory specimens of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) difficult or impossible. We performed a prospective study by comparing levels of reduction of overgrowth and recovery of mycobacteria using either pretreatment with N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NALC)-NaOH alone or pretreatment with NALC-NaOH and...

amikacin is a bactericidal aminoglycoside. aminoglycosides inhibit bacterial protein synthesis. the antibacterial spectrum of amikacin is the broadest of aminoglycosides. because of its resistance to many of the aminoglycosides-inactivating enzymes, it has a special role in hospitals where gentamicin- and tobramycin-resistant microorganisms are prevalent. amikacin is active against the majority...

We report a case of catheter-related bacteremia due to Tsukamurella pulmonis. T. pulmonis is a rare cause of opportunistic infection in immunosuppressed patients and in cases of indwelling foreign materials. This infection was nearly impossible to identify using conventional phenotyping methods because of its similarities to the related genera Nocardia, Rhodococcus, Gordonia, Streptomyces, Cory...