Showing papers in "Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology in 2006"

TL;DR: The TCP method was found to be most sensitive, accurate and reproducible screening method for detection of biofilm formation by staphylococci and has the advantage of being a quantitative model to study the adherence of staphlyococci on biomedical devices.

TL;DR: Yet another challenge faced during this large outbreak in the country has been the lack of rapid diagnostic facilities, which probably suggest that there is indeed lack of herd immunity to chikungunya virus.

TL;DR: The determination of prevalence and antibiotic sensitivity pattern of MRSA will help the treating clinicians for first line treatment in referral hospitals.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the majority of ESBLs were expressed in Escherichia coli, a serious threat to current beta-lactam therapy leading to treatment failure and consequent escalation of costs.

TL;DR: The study signifies the importance of mycological examination in the diagnosis of various mycoses for their effective management and isolate and identify the fungal agents from clinical samples from patients with different mycose.

TL;DR: An Indian infant who acquired this infection within few days of his birth after receiving blood from his maternal uncle, who was asymptomatic at the time of blood donation but died due to severe kala-azar within three months of blood transfusion, is reported.

TL;DR: Repeated outbreaks, decreased susceptibility to ciprofloxacin, which is commonly used for chemoprophylaxis of meningococcal disease, highlights the need for a constant surveillance system.

TL;DR: In-vitro antifungal susceptibility testing by agar dilution method to find out the minimum inhibitory concentration of amphotericin B, fluconazole and ketoconazole on ocular fungal isolates was found to be reliable, cost effective and easy to perform with consistent results.

TL;DR: Most of A. baumannii isolates were multidrug resistant in the set up and infections due to them were associated with high mortality, and infection with resistant clones and mechanical ventilation were found to be potential independent risk factors for mortality.

TL;DR: The aim of the study was to correlate the serological results with clinical presentation in patients with a diagnosis of dengue, and found that eleven out of 15 patients with DHF and DSS had secondary antibody response and mortality was 100% in these patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported an unusual case of trypanosomiasis from the rural parts of Chandrapur district in Maharashtra, where a battery of assays covering the spectrum of parasitology, serology and molecular biology confirmed the infecting parasite to be T. evansi.

TL;DR: Antimicrobial susceptibility data and MIC distribution favour use of ampicillin as a drug of choice for the treatment of enteric fever and third generation cephalosporins are also useful but their use should be restricted for complicated cases.

TL;DR: An attempt was made to study ESBL production among Enterobacteriaceae members from a tertiary care center in Chennai, and TDTs were found to be better than DDS in the detection of ESBLs.

TL;DR: The antigen detection kits are rapid, simple and are useful but to rule out false negatives in clinically suspected cases, Leishman stain is reliable.

TL;DR: From this simplified model, it might appear that or outdoor environment, forestry, fresh-water fishing, frequent the epidemiology of leptospirosis is simple and straight wading through stagnant water-bodies and use of unprotected forward, though in reality, the core determinants are often water sources for bathing and washing which are often implicated influenced by various socio-cultural, occupational, behavioral as risk factors for transmission of infection.

TL;DR: The antibiotic sensitivity pattern suggests cephalosporins and quinolones to be a better choice of antibiotics either prophylactically or therapeutically, which may result in effective and rapid sterilisation of the CSF.

TL;DR: Sensitive S.typhi isolates to cephalosporins was found to have increased from 2001-2004 while that of S.paratyphi A showed a decline, and the policy of empirical treatment of enteric fever needs to be rationalized.

TL;DR: Quantitative culture of lower respiratory tract samples obtained by non-bronchoscopic methods may be a useful alternative to bronchoscopy, in the diagnosis of VAP.

TL;DR: A patient who presented with acute ischaemia of left lower limb is a reminder to us that S. paratyphi B could be a cause of neonatal septicaemia in tropical countries making proper microbiological evaluation mandatory.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors determined the colonisation of Candida spp. in preterm babies and identified the risk factors, including male sex, longer duration of rupture of membranes (DROM), administration of steroids and antibiotics and vaginal colonization of mothers, whereas those in preterms versus terms were low birth weight and gestational age.

TL;DR: There is direct evidence to show that iron, in association with the iron-regulator Fur (in many gram negative organisms)/DtxR (in several gram positive organisms) operates at the molecular level and acts as a regulatory molecule, controlling not only the iron acquisition machinery but the expression of toxins and other bacterial virulence determinants, that are not related to iron metabolism.

TL;DR: The article emphasises on antibiotic choice, pharmaco-therapeutic considerations, non-antibiotic aspects of management, and testing of clinical samples in the initial screening of patients for resistant gram negative organisms.

TL;DR: A case of human Dirofilariasis affecting subtenons region in a 63 year-old woman from Coimbatore, South India is reported.

TL;DR: An attempt was made to speciate 102 clinically significant isolates of coagulase negative staphylococci by a practical scheme adapted from various references, showing maximum resistance to ampicillin followed by cefotaxime with no resistance to vancomycin.

TL;DR: Screening and treatment of BV and E. coli infection in pregnancy may reduce the risk of PROM, a study in Mysore, India found.

TL;DR: Assessment of the seroprevalence of leptospirosis among Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior and various high-risk groups in Calicut to identify major risk groups identified include agricultural.

TL;DR: Five cases of eosinophilic meningitis presumably due to infection with Angiostrongylus cantonensis are presented and all the patients gave history of ingestion of monitor lizard within ten days of onset of symptoms.

TL;DR: In anti HCV antibody positive patients, the core antigen was negative while the viral RNA continued to be present, suggesting that relying solely on a single HCV core antigen assay may not be useful for a definite diagnosis of early HCV infection.