Burden of serious fungal infections in Bangladesh
Published in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Extremely elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rates (ESRs) in Legionnaires' disease.
Published in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
Rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility profiling of Gram-positive cocci in blood cultures with the Vitek ...
Rapid identification and antimicrobial susceptibility profiling of the bacteria in blood cultures can result in clinical and financial benefits. Addition of saponin to the fluid from blood culture bottles promotes the recovery of the bacteria and thus may shorten the turnaround time of the microbiological analyses. In this study we compared the ide...
Time for first antibiotic dose is not predictive for the early clinical failure of moderate-severe community-acquired pn...
The time to first antibiotic dose (TFAD) has been mentioned as an important performance indicator in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). However, the advice to minimise TFAD to 4 hours (4 h) is only based on database studies. We prospectively studied the effect of minimising the TFAD on the early clinical outcome of moderate-severe CAP. On admissio...
Helicobacter pylori cagA gene variants in Malaysians of different ethnicity.
We have defined DNA repeat variability in the 3'-terminus of the cagA gene of Helicobacter pylori strains from Malaysian patients of different ethnicities. We identified different alleles based on the EPIYA repeats. cagA types A-B-D and A-B-B-D are more similar to the sequence of Japanese strains, whereas cagA types A-B-C, A-B-C-C, A-B and A-C disp...
Biclonal bacteremia due to Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in a cancer patient.
Published in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
