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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 …

A clinical case of the successful use of caspofungin for the treatment of invasive candidiasis, caused by fluconazole- and voriconazole-resistant strain of Candida glabrata, in the patient with severe hepatic failure (Child-Pugh score of 12) due to …

The literature devoted to the Candida infections in very-low-birth-weight neonates was reviewed using the Medline and Cochrane databases. Studies in children older than 28 days, full-term newborns, and Candida colonization studies, were excluded from …

The presend study is a retrospective case–control study included 218 infants with gestation age less than 32 weeks hospitalised in the neonatal ICU during 1999–2002. Frequency of the candidemia was 5%. Mortality in newborns with candidemia was 91%. …