
Para los especialistas reunidos en el XIII Congreso de la Seimc, que se está celebrando en Madrid, la posibilidad de tratar infecciones graves se reduce si la bacteria no es sensible al fármaco, ...
Oklahoma City, OK -- Researchers at the OU Health Sciences Center have found a new use for an old drug. Their findings appear online Friday in the American Journal of Gastroenterology.The drug, ...
La neumonía adquirida en la comunidad (NAC) constituye la primera causa de mortalidad por enfermedad infecciosa. Este aspecto, unido a la circunstancia de que se ha comprobado que existe gran ...
Aunque el tratamiento adyuvante con corticosteroides reduce la posibilidad de que los adultos con meningitis bacteriana mueran, no tiene el mismo efecto en los niños, indicó un nuevo estudio. La ...
China notificó el jueves dos muertes más a causa de un virus severo que provoca la enfermedad de manos, pies y boca, lo que eleva la cantidad de muertos a 30, todos ellos niños pequeños, dijo la ...
Un nuevo procedimiento para extraer y copiar los elementos esenciales de las células que generan los anticuerpos humanos brindó un atajo para crear las proteínas que combaten infecciones conocidas ...
Background. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the performance and feasibility of tuberculosis diagnosis by sputum microscopy after bleach sedimentation, compared with by ...
Background. Coinfection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Leishmania donovani visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Africa is an emerging, poorly understood disease. ...
Background. Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is the proximate cause of death in 20%–30% of persons with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Africa. Methods. Two prospective, ...
El aumento en la llegada de inmigrantes está planteando nuevos retos en el abordaje de la tuberculosis tanto en lo que se refiere al diagnóstico como al tratamiento. Una prueba alternativa a la ...
Background. Telavancin is an investigational, rapidly bactericidal lipoglycopeptide with a multifunctional mechanism of action. Methods. We conducted 2 parallel, randomized, ...
Background. Antibiotic resistance among microbes urgently necessitates the development of novel antimicrobial agents. Since ancient times, honey has been used successfully for treatment ...
Background. Although hospitalizations due to invasive pneumococcal disease decreased after routine vaccination of young children with a 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) ...
Background. The incidence of paratyphoid fever, including paratyphoid fever caused by antimicrobial-resistant strains, is increasing globally. However, the epidemiologic and laboratory ...
Background Representative population-based data on human papillomavirus (HPV) epidemiology are important for public health decision making but are difficult to obtain. Seroepidemiology is a ...