Diseases and Pathogens

Catheter-associated bloodstream infections take a third place among nosocomial infections, and are the most common cause of bacteremia. These infections account for 10% of all infections in hospitalized patients, 20% of nosocomial infections and up …

Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome is one of the most common diseases in urology which is difficult to diagnose and treat. According to current international guidelines, choice of approach to the management of patients with chronic …

Anaerobic bacteria (AB) are a heterogeneous group of microorganisms belonging to several genus and being gram-positive and gram-negative cocci, bacilli, spiral and branched forms. These bacteria grow only under anaerobic conditions and are sensitive …

Nonfermenting gram-negative rods (NGR) are one of the leading nosocomial pathogens. Among them Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp., Burkholderia spp., Stenotrophomonas spp., and Chryseobacterium …

Despite the wide use of antibiotics pyoderma remains one of the important problems of modern medicine. Patients with skin and soft tissue infections, including pyoderma, come to ¹⁄₃ of all patients with infectious diseases in economically …

To study the microbial and susceptibility patterns in COPD patients with acute respiratory failure (ARF) we performed a prospective cohort study in patients with ARF admitted to our acute care hospital. Quantitative cultures of expectorated sputum or …

Diabetic foot infections (DFI) are the major cause of non-traumatic amputations of lower extremities. Important predisposing factors for the development of DFI are peripheral neuropathy and diabetic angiopathy. The most common pathogen isolated in …

According to the guidelines of ESCAR (ESCMID Study Group on Coxiella, Anaplasma, Rickettsia and Bartonella and the European Network for Surveillance of Tick-Borne Diseases)

Ticks are obligate haematophagous acarines that parasitise every class of …

Survey of up-to-date knowledge of rickettsioses, their geographical distribution, importance for the infectious pathology, characteristics of rickettsia, their taxonomy and nomenclature according polyphasic strategy and classification, as well as …

To cause an infection viruses have to overcome diverse host defense mechanisms. The system exploited in certain human cells to prevent HIV replication was obscure for a long time until the discovery of a human protein APOBEC3G present in …