Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiología clínica
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Enferm. Infecc. Microbiol. Clin. · Jan 2002
Review[Tuberculous spondylodiskitis (Pott's disease): Experience in a general hospital].
Pott's disease (PD) is an uncommon extra-pulmonary form of tuberculosis. Dissimilar data about location, diagnosis and treatment from various hospitals and different countries are reported. ⋯ Pott's disease is a rare entity even among HIV-patients in whom extrapulmonar disease has increased. Dorsal location, diskitis and advanced forms of the disease that deserve surgical treatment are frequent.
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Enferm. Infecc. Microbiol. Clin. · Nov 2001
[Infection in patients with neutropenia that undergo an autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplant due to breast cancer].
The extent and duration of neutropenia and the characteristics of the underlying disease are determinant factors for the prognosis of febrile syndromes. Despite the fact that traditionally the peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT) were considered to cause high risk neutropenia, in all probability the neutropenia observed in the PBSCT in some solid tumours could be considered moderate risk. Febrile episodes in patients with these characteristics were evaluated. ⋯ Given the excellent evolution of our patients we can consider their neutropenia to be moderate or low risk, and they are a long way from the death rates caused by infections published by other types of hemopoietic transplants. The predominance of GN over the last few years and their limited sensitivity to quinolones means that their prophylactic use in these patients should be reconsidered.
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Enferm. Infecc. Microbiol. Clin. · Apr 2001
[Occupational exposures to blood-borne pathogens in health care workers].
To determine the rate of occupational exposures to blood-borne pathogens in different occupations of health care workers. To analyze the characteristics and outcome of the occupational exposure. ⋯ Although nurses are the health care workers with highest rates of occupational exposures, medical staffs are the most often occupationally exposed to a source infected patient. Universal barrier precautions are no appropriately used in most of the occupational accidents, specially in those involving mucosal exposures.