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Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of intravascular catheter-related infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
These updated guidelines replace the previous management guidelines published in 2001. The guidelines are intended for use by health care providers who care for patients who either have these…
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Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline.
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Pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: incidence, risk factors, and outcome.
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A large series of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and probable invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) are described, and the risk factors and incidence of the disease in patients with isolation of Aspergillus from lower respiratory tract samples are described.
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Nocardiosis at the Turn of the Century
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It is concluded that HIV infection has become the most common underlying condition for invasive nocardiosis in a general hospital over the last 12 years and new species and new types of immunosuppressed patients are identified.
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in recipients of solid organ transplants.
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Prophylaxis against latent tuberculosis is the main approach to treatment, but many issues remain unsolved, because of the difficulty in identifying patients at risk (such as those with nonreactive purified protein derivative test results) and the toxicity of therapy.
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A multicenter, prospective, cohort study
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Predisposing factors, previous dental procedures, and streptococcal infection are higher in IE HCM, suggesting that HCM patients could benefit from IEAP.
Saccharomyces cerevisiae fungemia: an emerging infectious disease.
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Treatment with a probiotic containing Saccharomyces boulardii (Ultralevura; Bristol-Myers Squibb) stopped the outbreak of infection and use of S. cerevisiae probiotics should be carefully reassessed, particularly in immunosuppressed or critically ill patients.
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Mucormycosis: an emerging disease?
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The main risk-factors for the development of mucormycosis are ketoacidosis (diabetic or other), iatrogenic immunosuppression, use of corticosteroids or deferoxamine, disruption of mucocutaneous barriers by catheters and other devices, and exposure to bandages contaminated by these fungi.
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Reassessment of Clostridium difficile Susceptibility to Metronidazole and Vancomycin
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Rates of resistance to metronidazole and vancomycin were higher among isolates from human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients, and molecular typing methods proved the absence of clonality among the isolates with decreased susceptibilities to the antimicrobials tested.
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HACEK Infective Endocarditis: Characteristics and Outcomes from a Large, Multi-National Cohort
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The overall outcome of HE was excellent with the in-hospital mortality significantly better than for non-HE (18%; p<0.001) and the outcome of prosthetic valve and native valve He was excellent whether treated medically or with surgery.
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