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Structure for prevention of health careeassociated infectionsin Brazilian hospi...

Structure for prevention of health careeassociated infections in Brazilian hosp...

Exploratory model for estimating occupation-day costs associated to Hospital Re...

Rapid detection of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE) in rectal samples fro...

ABSTRACT: The reduction in time required to identify vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) has gained increased importance during hospital outbreaks. In the present study, we implemented a laboratory protocol to speed up the VRE screening from rectal samples. The protocol combines a medium for selective VRE isolation (VREBAC®, Probac, São Paulo) and a multiplex PCR for detection and identification of vanA and ...

Gastrointestinal translocation as a possible source of candidemia in an AIDS pa...

Apart from cryptococcosis and histoplasmosis, which are mycoses contained by T cell-mediated mechanisms of host defense, fungemia is rarely found in AIDS patients. The frequency of fungemia due to Candida spp. has been reported to be as low as 1 %. We report a non-neutropenic AIDS patient who presented a candidemia which probably arose from her gastrointestinal tract.; Diferente de histoplasmose e criptococose,...

Cryptococcal meningitis in pregnancy: review of the literature. Report of two c...

Two cases of neurocryptococcosis were diagnosed during pregnancy in São Paulo (Brazil). Amphotericin B was used in the second trimester in one patient. The other, received amphotericin B during the first trimester of pregnancy and 5-fluorocytosine was added in the second trimester. In both, the pregnancy was uneventful and the fetus suffered no damage. The therapy used to treat pregnant women with cryptococcal ...

Hepatic involvement in human brucellosis

Two cases of hepatic involvement in human brucellosis are presented with special reference to the diferencial diagnosis of granulomatous hepatites.; São relatados dois casos de brucelose humana apresentando comprometimento hepático, com especial referência ao diagnóstico diferencial das hepatites granulomatosas.