Personal Experience

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%. …

Currently used approaches to antimicrobial prophylaxis (AMP) in abdominal surgery based on the results of multicenter retrospective study of AMP in abdominal surgery in Russian hospitals are analyzed in this paper. Antimicrobial prophylaxis regimens …

Сommunity-acquired pneumonia remains one of the most common infections in population, and despite the wide array of antimicrobials, it is associated with high lethality rate. First 24-hours mortality is an integral characteristic of the quality of …

Present article describes the experience of development of the protocols of antimicrobial therapy in one single medical institution – the hospital of Krasnodar municipal medical center. The main purpose for the development of such protocols is the …

Criteria for the evaluation of vaginal biocenosis developed in the Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (Moscow, Russia) are presented. According to these criteria the microbiological …