Diseases and Pathogens

Recent approaches to management of infective endocarditis including recognition, empirical treatment, and etiological therapy depending on causative agent (streptococci, staphylococci, gram-negative bacteria, fungi and unknown etiology) are given in …

Translated and reprinted with permission from «International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents» 1999;¹²⁄₂:81-97.

There are an estimated 350 million people throughout the world who are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). …

Translated and reprinted with permission from «Emerging Infectious Diseases» 1999;5:9-17.

We modeled estimates of the incidence, deaths, and direct medical costs of Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients in the New York City …

Urinary tract infections (UTI) are second only to respiratory tract infections as problems encountered by practicing physicians. They occur most often in young healthy adult women and are easy treatable in these patients. However, in some patient …

Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening infection that is invariably lethal without intensive antibacterial treatment. Wide array of microorganisms has been encountered as causative agents of infection with streptococci (viridans …

Current approaches covering the role of listreriae in infectious diseases for more than 70 years are given in this article. The main factors causing evident upgrowth of morbidity are analysed. The most prominent of them are: contamination and active …

Prion diseases belong to the group of neurodegenerative diseases that are very rare in general population and are registered as sporadic, infectious and inherited forms. These diseases are caused by contagious prion protein that appears as the …

Extension of spectrum of human bacterial pathogens as well as variety of their characteristics and unequal medical significance demand further study in order to extend the information on bacterial infections. This knowledge is necessary for …

This review is devoted to the one of the actual problems of modern medicine - nosocomial infections (NI). Criteria, epidemiology, pathogenesis, origin, risk factors for the development of NI are listed. A special attentionis drawnto the economical …

Many emerging and reemerging bacterial pathogens synthesize toxins that serve as primary virulence factors. We highlight seven bacterial toxins produced by well-established or newly emergent pathogenic microbes. These toxins, which affect eukaryotic …