A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

† VIMs are made up of 266 amino acid residues with the exception of VIM-7 (265 residues) and VIM-18 (262 residues). VIM-21, -22 and -27 have been assigned in the Lahey Clinic [201], but there ...

Objective To study the organisms causing early and late onset neonatal sepsis, with special reference to multi-drug resistant gram negative bacilli, at two neonatal units (one urban, one rural) in ...

This study presents TBorNotTB, a CDSS designed to improve TB evaluation and streamline isolation decisions, reducing labor ...

A yearlong outbreak of tuberculosis in the Kansas City, Kansas area has taken local experts aback, even if it does not appear ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) says Kansas is facing the largest documented tuberculosis outbreak in ...

One of the fastest ways to spread the norovirus is through contaminated surfaces, so it is extremely important to keep it clean. Gram-positive bacilli, which are associated with a number of infections ...

All cases that failed to satisfy one of these criteria were excluded from the study. Patients with TB empyema, defined as pus-like appearance of pleural fluid or positive acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smear ...

Sputum induction was performed on enrolment. Early morning GL was performed after a minimum four hour fast. Induced sputum and stomach contents were stained for acid fast bacilli and cultured for ...

Clinically, the features of acute bacterial pneumonia present no differently among gravid and nonpregnant patients. Hopwood [8] reported that among 23 pregnant patients who developed pneumonia ...