BACKGROUND Studying diseases associated with AIDS is essential for establishing intervention strategies because comorbidities can lead to death. The objectives were to describe the frequency of comorbidities and verify their distribution according to demographic, epidemiological and clinical data as well as to classify diseases in children and adolescents with AIDS in Vitória, Brazil. METHODS...

Abstract Background: The neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and monocyte-lymphocyte ratio(MLR) are useful biomarkers of inflammation used in many diseases to evaluate bacteremia, disease activity, recurrence rate, surveillance prognosis. Objective: Aim this study was NLR MLR the differential diagnosis children with pulmonary tuberculosis from CAP. Materials Methods: I reviewed hospital-records 5...

Results The study included 93 patients admitted with infections regardless of the suspected diagnosis at the time of referral. It was found that there was a large discrepancy between suspected diagnosis and diagnosis found at the hospital. 58% was admitted with a suspected infection. 63% of the patients over 71 years where admitted with a suspected diagnosis other than infection, i.e. dehydrati...

: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an acute infectious disease, which is characterized by influenza, fever, cough and dyspnea. Up to now, the pathogenic mechanism radical cure treatment for COVID-19 are still unknown. However, could lead pneumonia, multiple organ failure even death with development. During period of February 10 March 26, 2020, we admitted treated three patients complicated ...

EPIDEMIC infantile gastro-enteritis due to the specific serological types of Escherichia coli is the most infectious disease that is regularly admitted to hospitals in England, and there are at present no successful methods of preventing crossinfection by these organisms (Rogers, 1956). Jameson, Mann & Rothfield (1954) describe a large outbreak in which control was only achieved by complete clo...

Aim: The elderly have defective host defenses that compromise their ability to ward off infectious agents; factors influencing immunocompetence include impaired host defenses such as diminished cell-mediated immunity, changes in chronic diseases, medications, malnutrition and functional impairments. This study was conducted in order to determine the pattern of clinical infectious diseases in a ...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis remains an important public health problem. We created an in vivo air sampling model to study airborne transmission of tuberculosis from patients coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to evaluate environmental control measures. METHODS An animal facility was built above a mechanically ventilated HIV-tuberculosis ward in Lima,...

BACKGROUND Management of bacterial sepsis as a common cause of hospitalization and a life threatening clinical syndrome is a challenge. In previous studies, incorrect diagnosis of sepsis and unnecessary treatment have been frequently reported. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnosis and treatment of cases with a primary diagnosis of sepsis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Of 410...