BACKGROUND Serum procalcitonin levels have been used as a biomarker of invasive bacterial infection and recently have been advocated to guide antibiotic therapy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, rigorous studies correlating procalcitonin levels with microbiologic data are lacking. Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) have been linked to viral and bacterial ...

Bacterial infection is an important cause of death in patients with liver cirrhosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics and prognostic impact of bacterial infection in hospitalized patients with alcoholic liver disease (ALD). We retrospectively analyzed data from 409 patients consecutively admitted to a tertiary referral center with ALD diagnosis. Of a total o...

studies represent that bacterial infection of the semen can have a direct role in spermatozoid parameters change and may result in men's infertility. in the present study 160 semens were examines for bacterial infection. 55(34.4%) were infected by different species of bacteria, but those infected only by 4 species were undertaken for further study.these bacteria were streptococci pyogen, entroc...

Amikacin, a new semisynthetic aminoglycoside antibiotic, was administered parenterally to 20 patients suffering from severe Gram-negative bacterial infections. The antibiotic was found to be highly effective in controlling infection. It was well tolerated and no signs of nephro- or otoxicity were observed. The few side-effects which were seen appeared to be dose-related. The recommended 12-hour...

Bacterial infection, especially with intestinal-type bacterial flora, is a common complication in patients with cirrhosis [1–4]. Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP), urinary tract infection, pneumonia, spontaneous bacterial empyema and bacteraemia are the most frequent infective complications in this group. The incidence of infection with Gram-positive cocci, in particular, has increased in...

introduction: ubiquicidin (ubi) 29-41 is a synthetic antimicrobial peptide that binds with the microbial cell membrane at the location of infection. this study was conducted to evaluate its probable efficacy as an infection-imaging agent with potential to differentiate bacterial infection from sterile inflammation in humans. methods: fifteen diabetic foot patients (10 males and 5 females) with...

1. Sulfonamide chemotherapy controls the bacterial component of combined infection with influenza virus and pneumococci in rats. 2. Reinstillation of fluid (broth, physiological salt solution) into the respiratory passages of mice several days after sublethal viral infection converts the viral infection into a lethal one. 3. Sulfonamide chemotherapy controls the bacterial component of combined ...

Falah M1, Kavand A2, Yousefi Mashouf R3 1. Professor, Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. MSc in Parasitology, Boroujerd Social Security Organization, Boroujerd, Iran 3. Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran Abstract Background: Hydatid cy...