There are as yet few clinical reports of successful treatment of bacterial endocarditis with oral antibiotics, or of the use of the rifamycins in non-tuberculous infections. A case of refractory staphylococcal endocarditis successfully treated with oral rifampicin and erythromycin is presented. The availability of effective oral antibiotic therapy avoids the serious difficulties of long term pa...

Seventeen infants with nodular purpura are reported. All these infants suffered from a coagulation abnormality due to vitamin K deficiency. Contributing factors were breast-feeding, the use of milk substitutes, diarrhoea and antimicrobial therapy. The patients responded rapidly and completely to parenteral vitamin K. In the management of infantile diarrhoea use of antibiotics should be restrict...

Several recent meta-analyses have shown that the use of SDD can reduce the occurrence of nosocomial pneumonia among ventilated patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting. However, the use of SDD has also been demonstrated to increase subsequent patient colonization and infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, particularly Gram-positive cocci. Therefore, the routine use of SDD cannot...

A 58-year-old woman presented with recent history of fever. She had history of prosthetic aortic and mitral valve implanted four years ago. Blood cultures were negative and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) detected a large mass within the mitral prosthesis (Fig. 1a, Video 1). After seven days under antibiotherapy, repeated TEE revealed rapidly growing giant vegetation within the valve lea...

Introduction: The management and use of antimicrobial drugs has clinical, economic, and environmental implications. In many countries, antimicrobial drugs are the most frequently prescribed therapeutic agents. Therefore, health-care policy should focus on how to establish a rational attitude toward antibiotics. This study was performed to investigate antibiotic usage as a prophylactic regimen ...

The subject of this study was a dog brought to our clinic with complaints severe cough, dyspnea and anorexia. During the clinical examination, hard mass detected by palpation neck area. Vomiting reflex observed. As result radiographic endoscopic foreign body found in caudal part larynx. After diagnosis made, patient anesthetized removed forceps from oral cavity. postoperative period, administer...

A previously healthy 8-year-old girl presented to the emergency department with right hip pain and inability to bear weight on the right lower extremity. She had been afebrile at home, although was receiving ibuprofen for pain. Inflammatory markers were elevated, including a C-reactive protein (CRP) of 76.4 mg/L and an erythrocyte sedimentation rate of 40 mm per hour. A radiograph of the pelvis...

We investigated the impact of parenteral antibiotic treatment in the early neonatal period on the evolution of bifidobacteria in the newborn. Nine babies treated with intravenous ampicillin/gentamicin in the first week of life and nine controls (no antibiotic treatment) were studied. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis was used to investigate the composition of Bifidobacterium in stool samp...