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Reduced susceptibility to vancomycin and biofilm formation in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis isolated from blood cultures
... from blood cultures of patients seen at a Brazilian teaching hospital and ana- lysed antimicrobial resistance patterns, the presence of ica operon genes and biofilm ...
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Coagulase-negative staphylococci strains resistant to oxacillin isolated from neonatal blood cultures
... in blood cultures of newborns hospitalised in the NICU of the University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine (HC-FMB), S�o Paulo State University (UN�SP), Botu- S�o Paulo State University (UN�SP), Botu- (UN�SP), ...
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Endocarditis with negative blood cultures and immunological alterations: a grand challenge
... Em determinadas situações, pacientes presumivelmente com suspeita de polimialgia reu- mática, podem após semanas ou meses recebe- rem o diagnóstico correto de sua doença, [r] ...
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Rev. Bras. Cir. Plást. vol.27 número3
... Data including identiication; age; cause of burn; percen- tage of body area burned; presence of inhalation injury; and dates of admission, discharge, or death were obtained from the burns unit. Data related to bacteria ...
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J. Bras. Patol. Med. Lab. vol.53 número2
... the blood sample from the blood cultures was ...Sheep Blood Agar and MacConkey Agar media, the plates were incubated in an oven at 35ºC-37ºC for 18 to 24 ...
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Diagnostic accuracy of semi-quantitative and quantitative culture techniques for the diagnosis of catheter-related infections in newborns and molecular typing of isolated microorganisms
... According to the CDC [6], an infection can only be defined as catheter related if, in addition to a result of ≥ 15 CFU in semi-quantitative culture of the catheter tip or of 10 3 CFU/mL in quantitative culture, the same ...
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Rev. bras. ter. intensiva vol.23 número1 en a07v23n1
... in blood cultures and suggested that molecular panels show higher sensitivity and are faster than blood ...from blood specimens appears promising for a rapid ine-tuning of empirical antibiotic ...
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Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop. vol.50 número5
... Infective endocarditis due to Bartonella bacilliformis is rare. A 64-year-old woman, without previous heart disease, presented with 6 weeks of fever, myalgias, and arthralgias. A systolic murmur was heard on the ...
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Current Knowledge of Trichosporon spp. and Trichosporonosis
... Fungal DNA can be extracted and detected not only from fresh tissues but also from paraffin-embedded tissue sections. Sano et al. (158) extracted DNAs from 30 different tissue sections ob- tained from major organs of 3 ...
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Antifungal activity of caspofungin in experimental infective endocarditis caused by Candida albicans
... sults are similar to those obtained by Habib (2006). On the other hand, doses used in this study differ from the published MIC obtained in vitro, because our studies showed an increased sensitivity to caspofungin com- ...
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Breakthrough Candidemia Due to Multidrug-Resistant Candida glabrata during Prophylaxis with a Low Dose of Micafungin
... We identified a case of breakthrough candidemia in a 25-year-old patient receiving micafungin prophylaxis (50 mg/day). Five Candida glabrata isolates were obtained from blood cultures and were classified as ...
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Sao Paulo Med. J. vol.131 número1
... CASE REPORT: The case of a 79-year-old male patient with multi-infarct dementia who presented systemic inflammatory response syndrome is reported. This was attributed to bacteremia due to Staphylococcus cohnii ssp. ...
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Rev. Saúde Pública vol.49
... In conclusion, we found that high temperatures in the seven days preceding the collection of blood cultures were associated with the recovery of bacteria rather than fungi and GNB rather than GPC. Among ...
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Determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC)
... from blood cultures and purulent secretions of patients hospitalized at the Clinical Hospital, Botucatu School of Medicine, UNESP, Botucatu, São Paulo, from 1995 to ...
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The Brazilian Journal of
... regarding blood cultures, recommended by international guidelines, was ...However blood culture tests, when requested, obtained neg- ative results in most cases, and when a microorganism was ...
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Rev. Bras. Hematol. Hemoter. vol.35 número3
... It is recommended that a patient requiring a platelet transfusion receives one unit for every 10 kg body weight. The Instituto Pasquini has standardized eight units of RPC for all patients except for surgical and ...
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Arq. Bras. Cardiol. vol.97 número5 en v97n5a18
... more difficult to treat because they require a long period of antibiotic therapy and repeated surgical procedures, with dramatic clinical and economic consequences. Mortality is higher among patients with cardiovascular ...
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Detection of PER-2-Producing Enterobacter cloacae in a Brazilian Liver Transplantation Unit
... from blood cultures of two distinct patients hospitalized in the Liver Transplant Unit of a tertiary care hospital located in Cu- ritiba, a southern Brazilian ...
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IS1245 restriction fragment length polymorphism typing of Mycobacterium avium from patients admitted to a
... tures being the main source of the organism. The RFLP patterns of the 43 typable strains consisted of 6 to 23 bands with an average of 17 IS1245 copies per strain. For five patients, more than one isolate could be ...
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Clinics vol.62 número6
... initiated. Blood cultures were collected, and vancomycin 2000 mg every day was initiated due to prior isolation of Coryne- bacterium from the blood 1 month previously; ceftriaxone (2000 mg every day) ...
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