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One hundred and fifty-eight anaerobic organisms from 147 patients were isolated from 15,250 consecutive clean mid-stream or catheter urine specimens. The pathogenicity of the anaerobic genera commonly isolated from urine is reviewed and discussed. Failure to establish anaerobic isolates as pathogens and a paucity of reported cases proving anaerobic bacteria as significant causes of urinary trac...

Combined Scottish Study (1961). Poliomyelitis-like disease in 1959. British Medical Journal, 2, 597-605. Danta, G. (1975). Electrophysiological study of amyotrophy associated with acute asthma (asthmatic amyotrophy). Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 38, 1016-1021. Gathier, J. C., and Bruyn, G. W. (1960). Neuralgic amyotrophy. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 8, pp. 77-85. ...

Anaerobic bacteria are important pathogens in many different infections. Empiric antimicrobial therapy is frequently used in the treatment of anaerobic infections as it might take several days for bacterial cultures to grow and, in many cases, the patient needs care without delay. The patient’s condition and the nature of the infecting microorganisms are of extreme importance.Since anaerobic in...

With aspirated specimens from clinical infections, we evaluated the recovery of anaerobic, aerobic, and facultative bacteria in three widely used transport systems: (i) aspirated fluid in a gassed-out tube (FGT), (ii) swab in modified Cary and Blair transport medium (SCB), and (iii) swab in a gassed-out tube (SGT). Transport tubes were held at 25 degrees C and semiquantitatively sampled at 0, 2...

Five different anaerobic culture methods and several different media were compared for their ability to recover anaerobes from clinical specimens. Specimens were obtained from patients with documented infections, avoiding contamination with normal flora, and immediately placed in an anaerobic transporter. Each specimen was cultured by all methods and on all the various media. The comparative da...

Parvimonas micra and Provetella oralis are two commensal anaerobic bacteria of the human oral cavity. Anaerobic infections uncommon require a high index suspicion quick start appropriate treatment. We present patient with multifocal infiltrates compatible septic embolism (lung, liver, spleen emboli) polymicrobial bacteremia oralis. Periodontal disease appears to be main cause this disseminated ...

The anaerobic periurethral microbial flora of 25 healthy women was compared with that of 29 women attending the urinary-tract-infection clinic at the Royal Free Hospital. The latter group consisted of 19 patients receiving long-term prophylactic antimicrobial therapy and 10 with proven recurrent urinary-tract infection not receiving prophylactic treatment. The numbers and species of anaerobes i...

The treatment of anaerobic infection needs to be prompt and appropriate in order to ensure recovery. Management includes the use of hyperbaric oxygen, surgical methods and antimicrobial therapy. In the past five years, newer agents effective against anaerobic organisms were introduced. However antibiotic resistance is increasingly common against anaerobic bacteria. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is ...