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Patient Compliance with Antimicrobial Therapy of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

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 …

Problems of Epidemiological Studies of Nosocomial Infections in Russia

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 …

Molecular and Genetic Analysis of Influenza A Viruses with Different Sensitivity to Rimantadine, Based on the M2 Protein Gene Sequence

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 …

Use of Laboratory Standards for Diagnosis of Legionellosis during the Outbreak of Pneumonia in Verhnyaya Pyshma (Sverdlovsk Region)

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. …

Generalization of Genital Chlamydia Infection

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 …

Bacterial Vaginosis During Pregnancy: Current State of the Problem and the Role of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Pregnancy is an important risk factor for the development of bacterial vaginosis. According to the data of epidemiological studies, the prevalence of this disorder in pregnant women varies from 10% to 40% in different countries. In USA estimated …

Comparative Predictive Value of the Severity Assessment Tools in ICU Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Validation of the following assessment tools (APACHEII, SOFA, CURB-65, CRB-65, PORT, SMRT-CO) was performed based on data obtained from 300 ICU patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). Predictive value of the scores was determined using …

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Colorectal Surgery

Development of the surgical site infections is one the important causes of morbidity and mortality in surgical patients. Surgical site infections significantly prolong the length of hospital stay and increase the cost of hospitalization. Abdominal …

Asthma associated with Chlamydophila pneumoniae-infection

The present open-label, randomized, comparative study of efficacy of 8-week Azithromycin therapy in mildto-moderate stable asthma included 71 patients. After evaluation for C. pneumoniae infection by serologic tests, patients where randomized into 4 …

Legionellosis: the Role in Human Infectious Diseases

In spite of the fact that legionellosis is known as a human infectious disease for more than 25 years there is still quite a few difficulties and open problems. At the present article the following topics are described in detail: taxonomy, general …