Diseases and Pathogens

On the base of international standarts of molecular-genetic typing (SBT protocol and EQA scheme using DNA sequencing of the mip-gene of the European Working Group for Legionella Infections — EWGLI) were descibed the strains of Legionella pneumophila …

Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is a serious challenge for modern medicine. NP leads to prolongation of the hospitalization and high mortality. Optimal approaches to the diagnosis and prophylaxis of NP remain subjects for further developmnet. Adequate and …

Fournier’s gangrene is a relatively rare disease and comprises specific form of necrotizing fasciitis. This review presents a history of this disease. Several controversial issues, such as etiology, which is polymicrobial and to some extent depends …

So-called atypical respiratory pathogens in general and Chlamydophila pneumoniae in particular, are now well recognized as a common cause of acute upper and lower respiratory-tract infections, especially communityacquired pneumonia. Furthermore C. …

Methods to improve patient compliance with treatment are rarely used by physicians in their practice. It may be in part because of the lack of adequate information on this issue. This paper reviews adherence of the patients with respiratory tract …

Nowadays nosocomial infections (NI) remain one of the crucial problems in public health service all over the world. Though antiepidemic actions, the prevalence, mortality rates and NI therapy costs continue to increase. According to the data of …

The paper presents the results of molecular analysis of epidemic strains of influenza A in different years and within subtypes H1 and H3, manifesting different sensitivity to rimantadine. Analysis was performed on the influenza A virus M2 protein …

Over the last years there was a significant improvement in diagnostics and prophylaxis of legionellosis that is due to introduction of current standards of laboratory diagnosis and quantitative analysis of the pathogen in the environmental objects. …

Our study showed that chlamydiae were present in the blood from patients with genital and other chlamydial infections. Blood samples tested were positive for C. trachomatis in 92.3% of patients with confirmed chlamydial infection when culture and …