background: one of the fundamental issues of infectious disease treatment is drug resistance. the aim of the present study was to investigate the first-line anti-tuberculosis drug resistance rates and determine the risk factors related to multidrug resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis.methods: from march 2011 to september 2012, mycobacterial strains were collected from one hundred fifteen diagn...

conclusions these results show that maturity and birth weight are related to a decrease in the risk of developing a candidiasis infection. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the rate, risk factors, and sources of colonization in low birth weight (lbw) and very low birth weight (vlbw) infants in an nicu. patients and methods all cases were classified in to 1 of 2 groups: lbw a...

Risk factors for the development of respiratory distress syndrome and transient tachypnoea in newborn infants. C. Dani, M.F. Reali, G. Bertini, L. Wiechmann, A. Spagnolo, M. Tangucci, F.F. Rubaltelli, and the Italian Group of Neonatal Pneumology. #ERS Journals Ltd 1999. ABSTRACT: Respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) and transient tachypnoea (TT) are the most frequent acute respiratory diseases i...

BACKGROUND Perinatal risk factors are related to persistent and violent criminal outcomes. Prenatal maternal smoking may represent an additional perinatal risk factor for adult criminal outcomes. Our study examines maternal smoking during pregnancy as a predictor of offspring crime in the context of a prospective, longitudinal design. METHODS Subjects were a birth cohort of 4169 males born be...