Showing papers in "Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology in 2002"

TL;DR: Antibiotic susceptibility pattern of uropathogenic strains from inpatient and outpatient departments revealed that for outpatients, first generation cephalosporins, nitrofurantoin, norfloxacin/ciprofloxAcin were effective for treatment of urinary tract infection but for inpat patients, parenteral therapy with newer aminoglycosides and third generation ceps need to be advocated.

TL;DR: The main features of rhinosporidiosis are described and recent work which clarifies some of these enigmas is discussed, including molecular biological classification of R. seeberi among the hydrophilic organisms of the former DRIP clade, and establishment of a method for the purification of the developmental stages.

TL;DR: Initial therapy in a tertiary care hospital of Northern India may be aimed at Gram negative organisms and amikacin and ciprofloxacin may be used as first line drugs.

TL;DR: The findings of this study show that there is a region wise variation in the predominance of corneal pathogens, which has an important public health implication for the initiation of therapy.

TL;DR: Isospora belli appeared to be a predominant parasite associated with diarrhoea among HIV patients and detection rate of Microsporidia and Cyclospora was found to be very low.

TL;DR: This study has shown the incidence of ESbL producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains among children in Chennai should be carried out in all diagnostic centers routinely and the therapeutic use of all the 3GC should be avoided against KleBSiella strains that appear resistant to any third generation antibiotic.

TL;DR: It is emphasized, that needle stick injuries present the single greatest risk to medical personnel and the importance of increased awareness and training in universal safety precautions (USP), for prevention of nosocomial infection.

TL;DR: A total of 500 antenatal women in their first or second trimesters were screened over a period of 2 years for asymptomatic bacteriuria, and Escherichia coli was the most common organism isolated in the test and control groups.

TL;DR: The study emphasises the changing pattern of Candida species and their importance in blood stream infections in neonates and its role in septicemic neonates.

TL;DR: Antibiotic susceptibility testing against 15 commonly used antibiotics showed multidrug resistance with more than 90% resistance to penicillin, more than 50% to cephalexin and ciprofloxacin and more than 20% to methiillin, thus, highlighting the importance of species identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing for clinical isolates of CONS.

TL;DR: E. cloacae was found to be a predominant moderately sensitive pathogen in neonatal septicemia, and gram-negative bacilli isolates showed 100% susceptibility to amikacin, whereas 85% of E. Cloacae isolates were sensitive to the same.

TL;DR: One hundred ninety serum samples and 52 control samples consisting of high risk individuals were screened for anti HCV antibody by 3rd generation ELISA test, finding the prevalence rate was found to be 1.57% in total but it was 2.12% in healthy voluntary blood donors.

TL;DR: It was concluded that PCR is simple, specific and rapid method for detection as well as differentiation of leptospires when compared to conventional methods.

TL;DR: This new low cost assay, FASTPlaque TB, for the diagnosis of tuberculosis may have widespread applicability, especially in developing countries, due to its manual format and rapid reporting of results.

TL;DR: Serological tests have an edge over routine smear and culture methods for the diagnosis of pulmonary aspergillosis and itraconazole is more effective than amphotericin B and fluconazole in the treatment of asperGillosis.

TL;DR: Information found may not reflect true prevalence of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the region but may help in further planning long term surveillance studies to know the trend ofdrug resistance in this area.

TL;DR: Following prolonged water logging due to heavy rainfall in Mumbai during July 2000, a total of 102 patients clinically suspected of leptospirosis were admitted in the hospital and 37 were positive by ELISA giving a positivity rate of 36.27%.

TL;DR: High resistance rates to all antibiotics studied were observed and Imipenem and meropenem were the most effective antibiotics against gram negatives.

TL;DR: Inadequate vaccine coverage and quality of vaccine used continue to have an impact on occurrence of SSPE, and the prevalence of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is assessed.

TL;DR: A case of enteric fever in which the blood culture was sterile and Widal test was negative and the culture of the bone marrow yieldedSalmonella typhi and Salmonella paratyphi A.

TL;DR: A total of 67 Aeromonas strains were isolated as the sole bacterial pathogen from 1485 patients with acute gastroenteritis, majority of the isolates were sensitive to gentamicin, nalidixic acid but were resistant to ampicillin.

TL;DR: It could be concluded that chronic HBV infection may induce autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type I and chronic HCV infection might trigger AIH - Type II in Indian CLD cases.

TL;DR: Between July 1997 and December 2000, 1616 HIV seropositive persons were identified by Western Blot test at the School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata and all patients had evidence of HIV-1 infection, excepting one case of dual infection (HIV-1 and 2).

TL;DR: It is concluded that phage assay allows determination of rifampicin resistance within 48 hours from culture, reducing the time taken to define susceptibility results by BACTEC 460 TB and LJ proportion method (5-7 days and 6-8 weeks respectively).

TL;DR: A total of 76 anaerobes and 122 aerobes were isolated from 100 patients with pleuropulmonary infections, e.g. empyema, pleural effusion, and lung abscess, and gram negative anaerobic bacilli predominated.

TL;DR: Hypochlorite treatment is inadequate for disinfecting needles contaminated with pathogenic bacteria in presence of blood and should not be recommended as an option for disinfection of the needles.

TL;DR: Combined use of Casoni test and IHA test could establish presumptive and cost effective diagnosis in upto 90.9% of clinically suspected cases of hydatid disease.

TL;DR: AP-PCR technique provides great potential for simple and rapid identification ofLeptospires at serovar level, which could be useful in molecular epidemiological studies of leptospirosis.

TL;DR: Two cases of diphtheria with myocarditis and polyneuritis caused by non-toxigenic strains of C. diphTheriae are reported, and the virulence factors of this organism and the pitfalls in diagnosis are discussed.