An investigation was carried out during October 2005-September 2006 to determine the prevalence of bloodstream infections in patients attending the outpatient department of the HIV/AIDS clinic at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. Two hundred and one patients--86 males and 115 females--aged 14-65 years were recruited for the study. Serological diagnosis was carried out on them t...

Neonatal septicemia is a clinical syndrome of systemic illness accompanied by bacteremia occurring in the first 28 days of life. Microorganism causing neonatal septicemia varies from country to country and region to region and time to time. In many situations, conventional antibiotics are not sensitive to causative micro-organism. Our aim of the study is to identify causative organism and sensi...

background and objectives: urinary tract infections (uti) are one of the most common infectious diseases with different microbial agent and antimicrobial resistant pattern in hospitalized patients and outpatients. in order to assess the adequacy of therapy, knowledge of prevalence and resistance pattern of the bacteria is necessary. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and ...

introduction: listeria monocytogenes is a gram positive bacteria, frequently found in the environment and is responsible for food-borne disease such as perinatal infections, septicameia and meningeonceohalitis in human and animals. material and methods: for this reason, distribution of the ctpa determinate among l. monocytogenes isolated from clinical environment, diry and poultry samples were ...

coagulase-negative staphylococci (cns) are a main cause of nosocomial infection. the main purpose of this study was to determination of frequency of cns isolates in in hospitalized patients and their susceptibility pattern to antimicrobial agents. during 11 month study, 65 cns clinical isolates were recovered from hospitalized patients in different wards of hospital. in vitro susceptibility of ...

Background and Objectives: Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common infectious diseases with different microbial agent and antimicrobial resistant pattern in hospitalized patients and outpatients. In order to assess the adequacy of therapy, knowledge of prevalence and resistance pattern of the bacteria is necessary. The main aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence and ...

  following cesarean infection is one of the main complications,and antibiotic prophylaxy is an important protective factor in reduction of postoperational infection.the aim of this study is to compare the prophylactic effect of single dose ampicillin to triple dose ampicillin following the operation.this prospective randomized clinical trial a total of 242 women were prophylactically treated ...