The female genital tract has a complex microbial flora which varies with site, age of the patient, and hormonal background. Likewise, the quality and quantity of cervical and vaginal secretions vary with many factors including age, phase of the menstrual cycle, use of oral contraceptive, pregnancy, and presence of an intrauterine contraceptive device. Vaginal discharge may arise from the vagina...

we report a case of a. naeslundii bacteremia in an 11 year-old boy with persistent fever for two weeks prior hospital admission. he was finally diagnosed with malignant t cell lymphoma. isolation of this bacterium from the blood culture of our patient can serve as an important warning indicating that incuriosity about fastidious and not easily grown bacteria isolated from clinical samples may l...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) is a bacterial pathogen that is associated with several life-threatening diseases for humans. The combination of protein E-mediated cell lysis to produce EHEC ghosts and staphylococcal nuclease A to degrade DNA was used for the development of an oral EHEC vaccine. The lack of genetic material in the oral EHEC bacterial-ghost vaccine abolished any hazard...

Probiotics are dietary supplements containing potentially beneficial bacteria or yeasts. Probiotics are live microorganisms thought to be beneficial to the host organism and, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host. Lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria are the most common types of microbes used as probiotics. Probiotics strengthen the immune system to comba...

A single dose of 200 mg/day rufloxacin was investigated for preventing infection and for its impact on the commensal flora in a pilot study of 62 patients undergoing cytotoxic treatment for cancer. No infection caused by Gram-negative bacilli occurred among 54 assessable patients but prophylaxis was replaced by empirical treatment for fever in 19 cases and because of an adverse event, in a furt...

The clinical features, diagnostic considerations and recommended management for selected viral diseases, aphthae and decreased host resistance diseases affecting the oral cavities of young persons are presented. Viral diseases frequently present as subclassic disease manifested as transient gingivitis with little or no evidence of infection. Such viral diseases should be treated with general su...