Kidney transplant recipients are highly susceptible to infectious complications, as a result of chronic immunosuppressive therapy. Bacterial infections represent major threat graft function. This is descriptive study the clinical presentation, timeline occurrence, and microbiological profile bacterial after kidney transplantation.

Acute infections caused by pathogenic bacteria have been studied extensively for well over 100 years. These infections killed millions of people in previous centuries, but they have been combated effectively by the development of modern vaccines, antibiotics and infection control measures. Most research into bacterial pathogenesis has focused on acute infections, but these diseases have now bee...

Introduction: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is distributed worldwide and infects most species. The serious incidence and severe or fatal injury caused by T. gondii infection clearly indicates the necessity for the event of a vaccine. The current study goals were to evaluate serological applications of Toxoplasma gondiirhoptry protein 1 (ROP1) ...

  Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a rare inherited disorder characterized by inability of phagocytes to generate oxygen radicals needed for intracellular killing of phagocytic microorganisms. We report a 2.5-year-old Iranian female with multiple liver abscesses. She was admitted in surgical ward because of abdominal pain and fever for one month duration that had no response to conventio...

background and purpose: chronic granulomatous disease (cgd) is an inherited disorder of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (nadph) oxidase complex. this disorder results in recurrent life-threatening bacterial and fungal infections. aspergillus species are the most common fungal infections in these patients. case report: herein, we present a case of fungal infection in a girl with ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important opportunistic pathogen associated with chronic pulmonary infections and mortality in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of stable mucoid P. aeruginosa strain DK1-NH57388A, a CF isolate which has previously been used to establish chronic lung infections in an animal model.

Background: Periprosthetic hip infections (PHIs) are troublesome complications of hip arthroplasties. The gold standard procedure for treating chronic PHI is a 2-stage approach. Recently, however, more conservative approaches have been developed to spare the osseointegrated components and avoid sequestra, bone loss, devascularization, and difficult reconstructions. The partial ...

Center of Hepatology, Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien; Taiwan Graduate Institute of Aboriginal Health and School of Public Health, Tzu Chi University, Hualien; Department of Gastroenterology, Mennonite Christian Hospital, Hualien; Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei. Received: 18 June 2002. Revised: 18 July 2002. Accepted: 1 October...

The dream of all clinicians and researchers is to give their name to an illness, whatever the technique used to make the discovery. During the 20th century and the early part of the 21st century, several viruses have been identified by different procedures. Using electron microscopy, Epstein and Barr (Epstein et al., 1965) detected a Herpes virus in the lymphoid cells of a native African boy wi...

Management of chronic viral infections in managed care settings involves many complexities and challenges. The primary complexity is the large number of published treatment guidelines, recommendations, and consensus statements available for management of chronic infections, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and/or hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. In addition, these guidelines change ...