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The aim of the study was to determinate the structure of bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance in adult patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). A total of 57 adult patients from Smolensk and Yartsevo hospitals with severe …

To assess prevalence of antibodies to spirochetes of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex among blood donors in Moscow region, a total of 113 serum samples were tested using the new regional Borrelia strain and 2-step approach for detection of …

Erectile dysfunction occurs among men of all age groups in different countries of the world with the rate from 5 to 80%, achieving on average of 33%. One of the leading places among treatment approaches in organic erectile dysfunction, refractory to …

Susceptibility testing of 268 clinical strains of H. influenzaе isolated from children in Yekaterinburg during 2000–2005 was performed by disc diffusion method. Resistance to ampicillin was 13%, to II generation cephalosporins – 3%. There was the …

L. monocytogenes strains isolated from aborted fetuses (n=13) and pregnant women (n=4) in the Far East region of Russia were studied. Of 17 tested strains, 11 were serovar 4b, 5 – serovar 1/2a and 1 – serovar 1/2b. Based on the sequence of inlA, inlB …

Invasive aspergillosis is a common complication in children with hemoblastosis. This type of mycosis characterized with severe clinical presentations and high attributive mortality. Monotherapy with one of the systemic antimycotics is often using to …

Efficacy of regional standard of care «CommunityAcquired Pneumonia» and Sverdlovsk regional healthcare program «Intensive Care» were assessed. This paper presents results of retrospective analysis of ICU hospitalizations for severe community-acquired …

The prospective study of 19 children (aged of 1 to 17 years) with invasive fungal infections and different forms of immunosupression was conducted. Clinical and microbiological efficacy and safety of caspofungin, as well as analysis of direct costs …

The trends of species structure and susceptibility of yeast-like fungi to antimycotics, isolated from genital tract of women with vulvovaginal candidiasis (n=2828) in 1997–2003 were studied. There was found a tendency to increase in the rate of fungi …

Nosocomial infections are very important cause of morbidity and mortality in all developed countries. Results of antimicrobial resistance surveillance performed in the intensive care units of Ekaterinburg (Russia) are presented in the paper. The …