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Pneumonia in Nursing Homes: Current View on Problem

Pneumonia is the common bacterial infection among elderly patients in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. Pneumonia in that population is often severe and associated with high mortality. The high prevalence of this infection, diagnostic …

Catheter-associated Bloodstream Infections

Catheter-associated bloodstream infections take a third place among nosocomial infections, and are the most common cause of bacteremia. These infections account for 10% of all infections in hospitalized patients, 20% of nosocomial infections and up …

Comparative Analysis of Etiology and Antimicrobial Resistance of the Main Nosocomial Pathogens Isolated from the ICUs in Ekaterinburg

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 …

Epidemiology of Candidiasis Causative Agents and Their Susceptibility to Azoles: Results of ARTEMIS Disk Study in Russia

In 2003 8 research centers in Russia from Ekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Novosibirsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Smolensk took part in ARTEMIS Disk study 2003, the main purpose of which was the monitoring of resistance of the clinically …

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome: New Pieces of Puzzle

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a new highly contagious disease, which first appeared in Guandong province on the south of continental China and spread through 29 countries of Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa and Australia. …

Genital Herpes: Recent Problems and Their Solutions

Genital herpes (GH) is widely distributed sexually transmitted disease that is caused by herpes simplex virus type 1 nd 2. This article presents the questions of epidemiology and pathogenesis of this infection. Clinical features and major criteria …

Mechanisms of Resistance to Aminoglycosides in Gram-negative Nosocomial Bacteria in Russia: Results of Multicenter Study

The mechanisms of resistance to aminoglycoside antibiotics in Gram-negative nosocomial pathogens isolated in four Russian hospitals were studied. The most common and almost exclusive mechanism of aminoglycoside resistance was production of …

Legionellosis: the Role In Human Infectious Pathologies

In spite of the fact that legionellosis is known as a human infectious disease for more than 25 years there is still quite a few difficulties and open problems. At the present article the following topics are described in detail: taxonomy, general …

Listeriae: the role in infectious diseases and laboratory diagnostics

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 …

Nosocomial Infections: Epydemiology, Pathogenesis, Prevention and Control

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 …