Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection was diagnosed in 18 (12.5%) of 144 adults hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia. The infection was demonstrated by PCR in 15 patients and by serology, using two methods, in 10 patients. The mean age of the 8 patients with positive M. pneumoniae PCR and negative serology was significantly higher than that of the 10 patients with positive serology.

Case presentation: A one year seven months old female that was hospitalized in our tertiary reference service with a history of fever, tremor, trunk and gait instability, vomit irritability for 20 days. At day four hospital, she evolved myoclonia eye movements got worst by seven, pointing the diagnosis opsoclonus-myoclonus-ataxia syndrome (OMAS). Patient born prematurely at 32 weeks, had motor ...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to study the proportion of healthcare workers with a positive serology for Influenza A(H1N1)2009 without having flu, in a Spanish hospital at the beginning of the pandemic. METHODS A survey study carried out during August 2009 (before the peak of the pandemic in Spain) in the Hospital Costa del Sol, a second level hospital with almost 300 beds in the South of Spain. The ...

Case presentation: Male, 8 months old, previously healthy, initiated with fever, inappetence, dystonia and axial hypotonia. Initial examination presented cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) lymphomononuclear leukocytosis proteinorrachia. Electroencephalogram (EEG) slowed base activity. Other infectious screening tests viral serology, rheumatological, neoplastic diseases, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) ...

Background and Objective: Opportunistic infections are the leading cause of death among patients subjected to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The aim of this study was to compare the seroprevalence of Cytomegalovirus (CMV)  and toxoplasmosis infection in newly diagnosed HIV infected patients with healthy controls and it’s correlat...

AIMS To determine whether the polymerase chain reaction with sequence specific primers (PCR-SSP) can assign HLA-DR type more accurately than serology in a routine hospital laboratory. METHODS The 93 patients currently awaiting kidney transplants have been DR typed by serology over the past 14 years, 82% within the past five years. They have now been retyped using the PCR-SSP method described ...

Emerging evidence suggests an increased prevalence of Coeliac Disease (CD) in People with Cystic Fibrosis (PwCF) when compared to the UK population. The objective was screen patients All Wales Adult Centre (AWACFC) for CD and compare results within adult general population, which is estimated be 1 100. serology tests (IgA anti-tissue Transglutaminase (tTG) antibodies) were added patient annual ...

The cut-off values used in C6 peptide-based enzyme immunoassay (EIA), a widely test Lyme borreliosis (LB) serology, have not been thoroughly analysed. objective of the study was to examine performance EIA, and determine optimal for test. analysed data contained results 1368 serum samples. EIA index were compared statistically with immunoblot (IB) results. identified further tested well-defined ...

serology and dna techniques are employed for human leukocyte antigen (hla) typing in different transplant centers. results may not always correlate well and may need retyping with different technique. all the patients (with aplastic anemia, thalassemia, and immunodeficiency) and their donors, requiring hla typing for bone marrow transplant were enrolled in the study. serological hla typing was ...