Among nine patients with bacteremia caused by Granulicatella or Gemella in a 6-year period (July 1995 to June 2001), three had bacteremia caused by erythromycin-resistant Granulicatella adiacens and one had bacteremia caused by erythromycin-resistant Gemella haemolysans. All four isolates possessed mef genes, whereas none possessed ermT, ermTR, or ermB genes.

Background and Objective: Malignant otitis externa is a rare but potentially fatal infection. It tends to affect the elderly as well as patients with diabetes and immunocompromised status. We aimed to identify the epidemiological, clinical, therapeutic, and evolutionary features of malignant otitis externa. Methods: We conducted a retrospective study including patients hospitalized in the infe...

Morphometric of examination gonads Liza carinata were performed for one year (October 1995 – September 1996) to study the maturation development. Monthly variation in gonado somatic index (GSI) noticed, that started with low values during October and November. Significant increase was recorded period December - April peak February (3.59 males & 9.33 females) followed by a significant declin...

This article focuses on the AIDS mortality profile as related to socioeconomic and geographic variables, as well as evaluating the impact of deaths from AIDS in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The analysis included all death certificates for residents of the State from 1991-1995, 10,024 of which had AIDS recorded as the primary cause of death. In the 20-49-year age bracket, among individuals who h...

This paper presents the impact of flow changes in Warta River and water management rules regarding Jeziorsko dam reservoir on energy production by hydropower plant period 1995–2021. The was built 1986. It is second largest Poland terms surface area. In 1994, a with an installed capacity 4.89 MW started operation. study results show average annual from 1995 to 2021 at level 18,718 MWh. On other ...

Introduction: This study was conducted to determine the frequency and pattern of antimicrobial susceptibility of Shigella spp. isolated from pediatric hospital in two different time periods between March 1995 to March 1999 and March 2009 to March 2013 in North-West of Iran. Methods: The stool specimens were collected and examined for shigellosis by biochemical tests, and antibiogram was conduct...

2. Tuberculin surveys have been carried out in the capital by WHO in 1955, 1968 and 1995 and by the National Tuberculosis Institute in 1981. The results of these surveys are difficult to compare as the sizes of the study groups, the age-distribution of the children, the tuberculin units used and the BCG coverage percentages are different. However, the percentages of non-BCG vaccinated children ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous work has shown that soluble heat shock protein 60 (HSP60; sHSP60), present in circulating blood, is associated with carotid atherosclerosis. In the current evaluation, we tested the hypothesis that sHSP60 levels are associated with the progression of carotid arteriosclerosis, prospectively. METHODS The association of sHSP60 with early atherogenesis (5-year deve...