Bacterial infection is a frequent and severe complication of cirrhosis that may present on admission or develop during hospitalization in 30-60% of hospitalized cirrhotic patients. The most frequent infective complications include spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, urinary tract infections, respiratory infections, and bacteremia, mostly due to the concomitant presence of various facilitating me...

BACKGROUND Broad-range 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is used for detection and identification of bacterial pathogens in clinical specimens from patients with a high suspicion for infection. However, prospective studies addressing the impact and clinical value of broad-range bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplification for diagnosis of acute infectious diseases in nonsel...

BACKGROUND Bacterial infections are responsible for great number of mortality in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Knowledge about prevalence of bacterial infections and their antibiotic-resistance pattern would be a great step for their treatment and management. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data about nosocomial infections in ICUs of Alzahra Hospital (referral hospital in Isfahan, center of Iran) were gat...

Lower respiratory infections in adult horses often have an initial viral component because the effects of lower respiratory viral infections on local clearance and immune function may predispose to secondary bacterial involvement. Bacterial lower respiratory infections have greater clinical impact than viral infections because of the substantial risk of complications ranging from focal abscessa...

Microelements are essential for the function of innate immune system. A deficiency in zinc or copper results an increased susceptibility to bacterial infections.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Bacterial sepsis is a leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for over 200,000 fatalities annually. Approximately half of bacterial sepsis cases occur following acute respiratory infections, and the lungs are the most common organs to fail. Notably, outbreaks of respiratory viral infections are associated with an increased incidence or severity of bacterial co-...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the bacterial community profile of intracanal microbiota in primary and persistent endodontic infections associated with asymptomatic chronic apical periodontitis by using GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing. The null hypothesis was that there is no difference in diversity of overall bacterial community profiles between primary and persistent inf...

Bacterial co-infections in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pneumonia are not very common as the prevalence of other viruses. The rate bacterial co-infection hospitalized infected influenza is higher than 30%, whereas it lower 4% SARS-CoV-2. Respiratory viral infections associated have mortality and morbidity rates. literature shows that most SARS-CoV-2...

Co-infections have been widely described in COVID-19 patients. Bacterial infections being the main cause but also reported fungal up to 20 % of cases. Candida species are second most common fungi identified pulmonary mycotic affecting hospitalized patients after Aspergillus. We present a case severe associated with candidiasis.