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Diseases and Pathogens

Infections Caused by Nonfermenting Gram-negative Rods: Epidemiological, Microbiological and Clinical Features

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 …

Pyoderma in Outpatients

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 13 of all patients with infectious diseases in economically …

Bacterial Infection in COPD-Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure

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 …

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches in Diabetic Foot Infections

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 …

Review of guidelines for the diagnosis of tick-borne bacterial diseases in Europe

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 …

Rickettsial Diseases: Current State of the Problem

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 …

The innate immune system – a new antiviral defence guard

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 …

Current State of Enteric Fever

In developed countries as well as in Russia enteric fever occurs rarely, whereas several areas in the world are still endemic. At present, prevalence of resistance to most of conventional antimicrobials in Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi is …

Community-Acquired MRSA – New Problem of Antimicrobial Resistance

Staphylococcus aureus remains one of the most important human pathogens. Special attention is paid to a new problem – emerging and spreading of methicillin$ resistant strains of S. aureus in the community (CAMRSA). The main differences between …

The Role of Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma genitalium in Etiology of Urogenital Infections

The role of Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma urealyticum and Mycoplasma genitalium in the etiology of urogenital infections has been studied. In the study group (n=92) patients with gonococcal and chlamydial infections as well as with bacterial …