MUCO-PURULENT TUBO-TYMPANIC INFECTIONS

Penicillin in Muco-Purulent Conjunctivitis

Antimicrobial resistance in septic-purulent infections.

UNLABELLED Evaluating the spread of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms from a multi-profile hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS There were analyzed 3940 strains of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms from patients with septic-purulent infections. RESULTS From the total, 51.44% samples of isolated strains showed resistance to antibiotics, including Gram negative (61.66%), and Gram positive ones...

Purulent Pericarditis: Acute Infections and Chronic Complications

Hospital Physician January 2008 P urulent (or suppurative) pericarditis is defined as an infection of the pericardial space that produces pus that is found on gross examination of the pericardial sac or on tissue microscopy. In most cases, pericardial infection does not produce a purulent effusion. Viral infection, which together with “idiopathic” pericarditis account for 90% of pericarditis ca...

Gentamicin and colistin in chronic purulent bronchial infections.

Gentamicin is a recently discovered antibiotic produced from Micromonospora purpurea, highly active in vitro against such problem bacilli as Pseudomonas pyocyanea and Klebsiella pneumoniae (Klein et al., 1964; Barber and Waterworth, 1966). Infections with these organisms have been successfully treated with gentamicin given systemically, these involving the respiratory or urinary tracts (Klein e...

Familial chronic muco-cutaneous candidiasis.

Chronic oral candidiasis has been described in association with abnormalities of the endocrine system on many occasions, both in case reports (Sutphin, Albright, and McCune, 1943), and more general reviews (Kunin et al, 1963). Chronic candidiasis has also been recorded in the familial thymic aplasia described by Nezelof (Nezelof et al, 1964), Swiss-type agammaglobulinaemia (Hitzig, 1968) and Di...