Botryomycosis is a bacterial infection that presents with eosinophilic granules and colonies of either gram positive or gram negative organisms, although Staphylococcus aureus is most commonly identified. It has been confused with lung cancer or actinomycosis due to similar presentation and symptoms. Treatment of this infection consists of a combination of antibiotics and surgery. We present a ...

Urinary tract infection is a commonly encountered problem in clinical practice. Diagnosis is usually reached by considering compatible symptoms, microscopy and culture of urine samples. We carried out a retrospective study of records of patients established to have urinary tract infection at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh. The results showed the infection predominantly occurring in fem...

INTRODUCTION Dacryocystitis is an infection and an inflammation of the lacrimal sac and is an important cause of ocular morbidity in India. OBJECTIVE To isolate and identify the bacterial patterns associated with dacryocystitis and to determine their antibacterial sensitivity pattern. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 100 lacrimal swab materials were subjected to bacterial analysis. Children...

Nocardia is an uncommon Gram-positive organism. It typically appears as delicate filamentous Gram-positive branching rods. In the United States it was estimated to be approximately 500 to 1000 new cases per year. The organism causes disease in immunocompromised individuals with pulmonary infection representing the most common site of infection. Nocardia mikamii has been a recently isolated path...

Purpura fulminans is a hemorrhagic condition associated predominantly with meningococcal and other gram negative septicemias. It occurs mainly in infants and younger children. Features include tissue necrosis, small vessel thrombosis, disseminated intravascular coagulation, multi-organ failure and death. Other causes include clotting factor deficiencies and idiopathic varieties. The condition i...

A recent multicentre clinical study evaluated the safety and efficacy of i.v. ciprofloxacin therapy compared with imipenem-cilastatin in hospitalized patients with severe pneumonia. Monotherapy with i.v. ciprofloxacin was at least equivalent to imipenem in terms of bacteriological eradication and clinical response. In a single-centre, retrospective, post-therapy evaluation of persistent and sub...

The aim of the present study was to retrospectively analyze the bacteriology and drug susceptibility of pus flora from abdominal trauma patients with severe intra-abdominal infection (SIAI). A total of 41 patients with SIAI induced by abdominal trauma were enrolled in the study, from which 123 abdominal pus samples were obtained. The results from laboratory microbiology and drug sensitivity wer...

Neutropenic patients with cancer are a heterogeneous group of patients who carry a variable risk for infection. When such patients present with fever, appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy is initiated and continued until clinical improvement or clinical or microbiologic data direct a modification in treatment. As the duration of neutropenia increases, so does the need for antimicrobial modifi...

in study, spherical silver nanoparticles (snps) were synthesized by chemical reduction method from a metal precursor silver nitrate in presence of an anionic surfactant and strong reducing agent. in this experimental work, snps are synthesized in presence of different concentration of stabilizing agent and effect of stabilizing agent on size distribution of snps have been observed. further anti...