Objectives: This study is to characterize the clinic symptoms and analyze the risk factors of amalgamative infection for LCHD. Methods: 224 LCHD cases were divided into infection group and non-infection group according to their infection history. SPSS l6 statistical software was utilized to analyze the possible risk factors by unconditioned Logistic regression analysis, and calculate the odds r...

Virion uncoating is an essential early event in reovirus infection. In natural enteric infections, rapid proteolytic uncoating of virions is mediated by pancreatic serine proteases. The proteases that promote reovirus disassembly and cell entry in the respiratory tract remain unknown. In this report, we show that endogenous respiratory and inflammatory proteases can promote reovirus infection i...

Respiratory viruses can cause a wide spectrum of pulmonary diseases, ranging from mild, upper respiratory tract infections to severe and life-threatening lower respiratory tract infections, including the development of acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Viral clearance and subsequent recovery from infection require activation of an effective host immune resp...

Klebsiella, a bacterial genre which includes species frequent involved in human pathology, produces a wide range of infections, sometimes severe and difficult to treat. Our retrospective study was made in the Clinical County Emergency Hospital of Braşov and included the Klebsiella strains isolated from various pathological products of the patients hospitalized in 2010. The study shows the wide ...

Surveillance systems for hospital infections are reporting increasing rates of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-positive Enterobacteriaceae in Europe. We aimed to perform a national survey on this trend and on the regional distribution of nosocomial infections due to ESBL-positive Enterobacteriaceae in German hospitals. Data from 2007 to 2012 from two components of the German national nosoc...

background :respiratory viruses are the leading cause of respiratory tract infections among children and are responsible for causing morbidity and mortality worldwide. this study was performed to detect viruses in children with respiratory infections and describe their epidemiology and clinical characteristics.   methods : in this descriptive cross sectional study, throat swabs and wash specime...

background and objective: this study was undertaken to assess the ability of standard urinalysis (ua) and hemocytometer white blood cell (wbc) counts for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection (uti) in patients with urinary symptoms. materials and methods: a total of 600 patients with symptoms of urinary tract infection were enrolled in this prospective study. standard ua, hemocytometer wbc c...

BACKGROUND Influenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are among the most common viruses causing infections of the lower respiratory tract in young children. Although there are important differences in the immunopathogenesis of these 2 viral pathogens, little is known about how they affect antigen-presenting cells in children with acute infections. METHODS To characterize the immune...