Introduction: Intensive Care Units (ICU) are a major threat to nosocomial pneumonias with children being the most common victims of pneumonia. It is defined as manifestation infection after 48 hours hospital admission which can be also attributed any procedures done patient. Aim: To find out bacteriological profile in pulmonary involvement ICU setup and determine sensitivity patterns these bact...

As infecções representam uma das causas clínicas com maior impacto para a saúde, onde situações mais graves em serviços de saúde acontecem nas Unidades Terapia Intensiva (UTI). A análise culturas e sensibilidade antimicrobiana dos microrganismos isolados amostras biológicas pacientes internados UTI são suma importância identificação graves. Desta forma, presente pesquisa teve como objetivo dete...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of technetium-99m (Tc-99m) ciprofloxacin in imaging inflammation/infection. The ciprofloxacin for labelling, as a kit, was obtained from St Bartholomew's Hospital in London. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients were injected intravenously with Tc-99m ciprofloxacin and imaging was done at 10 minutes, 4 hours and 24 hours if necessary....

OBJECTIVES To identify the common bacteria of otorhinolaryngological (ORL) infection in three general hospitals in the state of Sarawak, East Malaysia and to determine the antibiotic sensitivity of the common bacteria to update local antibiotic policy. METHODS All specimens with positive monoclonal culture, received from inpatient and outpatient Otorhinolaryngology Department in the year 2009...

BACKGROUND The misuse of antimicrobial agents increases drug resistance in bacteria. METHODS The correlation between antimicrobial agent consumption and related resistance in the Gram-negative bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Proteus mirabilis was analyzed during the period 2003-2011. RESULTS Among these five bacteria, ov...

The objective of this study was to investigate bacterial resistance trends, infection sites and the relationship between resistance and admittance to the intensive care unit (ICU). A total of 53,316 bacteria identified between 1999 and 2008 were evaluated. Multidrug resistance was characterized when gram-negative bacilli (GNB) presented resistance to two or more classes of antibiotics. Gram-pos...

Community-acquired pneumonia is caused by a range of organisms, most commonly Streptococcus pneumoniae, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae and respiratory viruses. Chest x-ray is required for diagnosis. A risk score based on patient age, coexisting illness, physical signs and results of investigations can aid management decisions. Patients at low risk can usually be managed with oral a...

Rhizosecretion of functional recombinant proteins from in vitro cultured roots into the hydroponic medium offers an attractive technology to simplify down-stream purification procedures. Aim of the present study was the production and secretion of the antimicrobial peptide (AMP) ranalexin from Nicotiana tabacum hairy roots which were transformed by agroinfection. A His-tagged ranalexin was expr...