Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiología clínica
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Culture of emergency room blood samples is common practice, but open to controversy. As compared to other emergency tests, blood collection requires twice as much time and needs a refined technique to avoid contamination, and the study has no immediate diagnostic utility. ⋯ Diagnostic performance and quality of emergency room blood cultures was high. The predominant etiology was gram-negative bacteria. Patients had a severe clinical presentation. Diabetes mellitus and severe sepsis and/or septic shock were independent prognostic factors of mortality.
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Enferm. Infecc. Microbiol. Clin. · Aug 2004
Review[Up to date in sexually transmitted infections: epidemiology, diagnostic approaches and treatments].
In the last years, there have been important advances in sexually transmitted infections such as genome sequencing of Treponema pallidum, Chlamydia trachomatis or Mycoplasma genitalium; the new taxonomic position of Calymmatobacterium granulomatis; commercial diagnostic systems based on nucleic acid amplification; the emergence of quinolone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae; new therapeutic approaches in vulvovaginal candidiasis that include boric acid; the demonstration that valacyclovir reduces the risk of transmission of genital herpes or the availability of immune-response modifier in the treatment of genital warts, and that are questions in the goal of this review. Viral hepatitis and HIV were no reviewed by space reasons.
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Enferm. Infecc. Microbiol. Clin. · Jun 2004
Letter Case Reports[Utility of linezolid in cystic fibrosis].