acute meningitis in children is predominantly aseptic and does not require specific treatment. however, meningitis has a bacterial origin in about 5% of patients and carries a risk of fatal outcome or severe neurological sequelae, especially when diagnosis and antibiotic administration are delayed. the objective of the present study was to evaluate the value of determining procalcitonin levels ...

background: due to high occurrence of bacterial vaginosis among women and its resistance to drug we need a new treatment regimen for improving the efficacy of present treatments. the objective of this study was to investigate the comparison between metronidazole and the combination of metronidazole and probiotic on the treatment of bacterial vaginosis. methods: this clinical-experimental study ...

the prospects of using the biostimulation and bioaugmentation treatment for the removal of the polychlorinated biphenyl (pcbs) from contaminated sediment collected from the sewage canal in the surroundings of a former pcb manufacturing plant in slovakia is described. the eleven bacterial strains isolated in our previous work from sewage strážsky canal sediments were able to aerobically degrade ...