BACKGROUND There are very limited data on children with pneumonia in Mali. The objective was to assess the etiology and factors associated with community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children <5 years of age in Mali. METHODS A prospective hospital-based case-control study was implemented in the Pediatric department of Gabriel Touré University Hospital at Bamako, Mali, between July 2011-...

BACKGROUND Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is the third most frequent non-fermentative Gram-negative bacilli in nosocomial infections, and usually causes severe infections such as primary bacteremia and pneumonia. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to compare the demographic and clinical characteristics, microbiological findings and final outcomes of the patients with primary bacteremia and noso...

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background sinusitis is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases among those who visit doctor, which requires antibiotic intervention. the most common types of bacteria causing this disease are streptococcus pneumonia, streptococcus pyogenes, staphylococcus aureus and pseudomonas aeroginosa. nonetheless due to dangerous side effects of chemical drugs on body and increased drug resistance o...

conclusions tuberculosis was an important cause of cap in our region. hence, it should be considered in all patients admitted with a cap diagnosis. results among 120 patients with cap, the most common etiology was s. pneumoniae (24.4%), followed by mycobacterium tuberculosis (17.5%), s. aureus (6.7%), polymicrobial agents including anaerobes (4.2%), complicated hydatid cyst (2.5%), influenza a ...

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is the first cause of skin and soft tissue infections, but can also produce severe diseases such as bacteremia, osteomyelitis and necrotizing pneumonia. Some S. aureus lineages have been described in cases of necrotizing pneumonia worldwide, usually in young, previously healthy patients. In this work, we describe a fatal case of nec...

Methods The susceptibility testing was carried out by unified protocol of Kirby-Bauer method (KB) were Streptococcus pneumonia (1699), b-hemolytic streptococci(1428) including GAS (756), GBS (451), GCS (34), GGS (140), and GFS (31) none classified (16), and Viridans streptococc group excluded S. pneumonia isolated from sterile parts (280). The susceptibility testing was assayed by Penicillin E-...

P disease in adults (invasive disease, and those with pneumococcal pneumonia) i s assoc ia ted with s igni f icant morbidity and mortality. Of these, pneumococcal pneumonia remains one of the most common cause of community acquired pneumonia (CAP). Although antibiotic therapy is the treatment of choice for pneumococcal disease, resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics is emerging, which n...

INTRODUCTION Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults. This study estimated incidences of CAP, chest x-ray-confirmed CAP (CXR+CAP), S pneumonia- positive CAP, S pneumonia-positive CXR+CAP, and S. pneumoniae serotype distribution among 46,000 at-risk adults aged ≥ 50 years residing in Chrzanów Count...

OBJECTIVE To study the naso-pharyngeal carriage of organisms in children diagnosed with severe pneumonia. METHODS Nasopharyngeal aspirate and swabs for microbiological analyses were collected from 377 children aged 3-59 months with severe pneumonia. RESULTS 28.6% of the samples were positive for S. pneumoniae, 9.6% were positive for H. influenzae, and 8.5% were positive for both the organis...