Although the commonest manifestation of Salmonella infection is acute gastroenteritis, infection may spread to the blood-stream may and the illness can present with focal lesions in almost any organ with or without septicemia. We describe here a case of Salmonella typhi infection of a sacroiliac joint that was cured with ciprofloxacin therapy for six weeks. The patient was immunologically norma...

Pseudomonas putrefaciens has been presented as an opportunistic pathogen in a few isolations from humans. This is the first documented report of a local infection of P. putrefaciens complicated by invasion of the blood stream. The organism was twice isolated from the blood culture and once from the wound exudate of a 73-year-old woman hospitalized for extensive ulcerations on the legs. Parenter...

It is for this reason proposed to recognize endocarditis lenta as a Streptococcus viridans infection which may be divided into two groups. In the first the infecting organism can be recovered from the blood stream and pyrexia is present, while in the second the blood is sterile and the temperature remains normal; but the ultimate result, though longer delayed in the second, is almost equally di...

Streptococci are gram positive cocci arranged in chains or pairs. They are important human pathogens, causing pyogenic infections with a characteristic tendency to spread as opposed to staphylococcal lesions which are typically localized. Viridans Streptococci are αhemolytic, normal flora of the oral respiratory tract and gastrointestinal mucosa. They are major cause of bacterial endocarditis i...

The relationship between the in vitro antibacterial activity of carbenicillin in the presence of leukocytes and the therapeutic efficacy of the antibiotic against experimental infection in animals was investigated. Proteus mirabilis strains 3 and 60 were selected as the test strains. The susceptibility of these strains to carbenicillin was similar in the conventional broth medium, but differed ...

348. Rising incidence of carbapenem resistance in health care associated blood stream infections in a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, India Sweta Shah, MD; Tanu Singhal, MD, MSc; Reshma Naik, MBA; Microbiology, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India; Infectious Disease and Pediatrics, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, India; Infection Prev...

Infective endocarditis (IE) is an endovascular microbial infection of cardiovascular structures (e.g., native valves, ventricular or atrial endocardium) including endarteritis of the large intrathoracic vessels (e.g., in a patent ductus arteriosus, arteriovenous shunts, coarctation of the aorta) or of intracardiac foreign bodies (e.g., prosthetic valves, pacemaker or ICD leads, surgically creat...

purpose: urinary tract infection is acommon infectious presentation in the community practice.it is also the most common cause of antimicrobial resistance in the society. the aim of this study was to investigate the frequencyand antimicrobial resistance pattern of the uropathogens isolated from patients with urinary tract infection. materials and methods: this study was conducted on the patient...

BACKGROUND Tunnelled central venous dialysis catheter use is significantly limited by the occurrence of catheter-related infections. This randomised controlled trial assessed the efficacy of a 48 hour 70% ethanol lock vs heparin locks in prolonging the time to the first episode of catheter related blood stream infection (CRBSI). METHODS Patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD) via a tunnelled c...