Infectious Diseases, Microbiology
Evaluation of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology specialists’ preferences for hand hygiene: analysis using the multi-attribute utility theory and the analytic hierarchy process methods
... the spread of healthcare-associated infections, the evalu- ation of the choice of hand hygiene agents among the infectious diseases and clinical microbiology (IDCM) spe- cialists is crucial. So far, ...
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Response of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory to Emerging (New) and Reemerging Infectious Diseases
... on-site microbiology services that test for reemerging infectious diseases 24 h/day, 7 ...on-site microbiology services are essential, if not ...
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Point Counterpoint: Molecular Testing for Infectious Diseases Should Be Done in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory
... Currently there are three FDA-cleared molecular diagnostic test platforms available for the detection of microorganisms that represent simple, sample-in, answer-out systems with tests of moderate to low complexity ...
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Fecal microbiota transplantation for severe clostridium difficile infection after left ventricular assist device implantation: a case control study and concise review on the local and regional therapies
... the infectious diseases society of America (IDSA) and the European society of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases (ESCMID) guidelines concerning FMT recommends that it should ...
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A Retrospective Study of Extended Spectrum Beta- Lactamases (ESBL) Urinary Tract Infections Treated with Fosfomycin and in vitro Susceptibility of 102 Isolates to Fosfomycin
... the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases endorsed the use of fosfomycin tromethamine as a first-line or ...
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Epidemiological and clinical assessment of a shared territorial malaria guideline in the 10 years of its implementation (Barcelona, North Metropolitan Area, Catalonia, Spain, 2007–2016)
... (infectious diseases, emergencies and microbiology staff, paediatricians and general practition- ers) from the PROSICS MetroN study group voluntar- ily recorded all consecutive individuals with ...
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Variability in contact precautions to control the nosocomial spread of multi-drug resistant organisms in the endemic setting: a multinational cross-sectional survey
... Overall, 213 individuals from 32 EU and 28 non-EU countries participated in the survey.The majority were European and had their workplace in either the South- ern European Area (31%), in Western (22%), Northern (16%), or ...
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A prospective multicenter study on the evaluation of antimicrobial resistance and molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in intensive care units with clinical and environmental features
... of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Micro- biology, Ankara, Turkey; Gülden Ersöz, Mersin University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, ...
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Assessment of the requisites of microbiology based infectious disease training under the pressure of consultation needs
... Historically, the practice of ID and clinical microbiol- ogy come from a common origin in Turkey. In 1929 this ancestral branch was referred to as “ Bacteriology ” in the National Medical Specialization Act followed by ...
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Retrospective analysis of the quality of reports by author-suggested and non-author-suggested reviewers in journals operating on open or single-blind peer review models
... BMC Microbiology and BMC Infectious Diseases, we identi fi ed 100 manuscripts that had two reviewers each, one suggested by the authors and one by another party (BioMed Central ’ s PubMed search tool ...
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Drug- Resistance- Associated Mutations and HIV Sub-Type Determination in Drug-Naïve and HIV-Positive Patients under Treatment with Antiretroviral Drugs
... 20. Edelstein RE, Nickerson DA, Tobe VO, Manns- Arcuino LA, Frenkel LM. Oligonucleotide Ligation Assay for Detecting Mutations in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 polGene That Are Associated with Resistance to ...
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Point Counterpoint: Consolidated Clinical Microbiology Laboratories
... clinical microbiology labora- tories that provide services to patients receiving care in multiple off-site, often remote, ...locations. Microbiology specimens are unique among clinical specimens in that ...
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Evaluation of Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates from Educational Hospitals in Zahedan, Iran
... 5. Lin J-C, Chang F-Y, Fung C-P, Xu J-Z, Cheng H-P, Wang J-J, et al. High prevalence of phagocytic-resistant capsular serotypes of Klebsiella pneumoniae in liver abscess. Microbes and infection. 2004; 6(13): 1191-8. 6. ...
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Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine with an Emphasis on Bacteriology
... in microbiology from disease-specific discoveries to fundamental insights, demand more efforts in medical sciences and there are lots of unproven facts to discover ...
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Antimicrobial activity of endophytic bacterial populations isolated from medical plants of Iran
... Sample collection. Twenty three plant samples, including leaves, flowers, and fruits, were collected from four different provinces of Iran (Khuzestan, Tehran, Khoramabad, and Ilam) between 2013 and 2104. Plants were ...
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An Outbreak of Oropharyngeal Tularemia with Cervical Adenopathy Predominantly in the Left Side
... between the years 1924 - 1987, and the authors ex- plained that this situation may be due to the fact that right-handed persons held the captured animal firmly with the left hand while cooking. In this outbreak, ...
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A single center observational study on emergency department clinician non adherence to clinical practice guidelines for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections
... The burden of increasingly resistant bacterial infections strains our healthcare system and is a major global pub- lic health challenge [1]. Antimicrobial stewardship pro- grams aim to improve antimicrobial use and ...
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Commentary: Management of Microbiological Samples in a Confirmed Case of Ebola Virus Disease: Constraints and Limitations
... The need for developed countries to be prepared for the man- agement of EVD patients (e.g., repatriated HCWs, accidentally imported cases, and even secondary autochthonous cases among contact persons) becomes ...
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Enhancement of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Specific CD8+ T Cells in Cerebrospinal Fluid Compared to Those in Blood among Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve HIV-Positive Subjects
... other infectious diseases, and during other viral infections cytotoxic T lymphocytes can worsen disease through direct cytotoxicity or release of inflammatory cytokines such as gamma interferon (IFN- ␥ ) ...
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