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A Sevcíková

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PubMed2002

[Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis in the Czech Republic].

The objective of the study was to assess the prevalence and more detailed data pertaining to the incidence of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) in the Czech Republic. The authors examined 99 patients with cirrhosis of the liver and ascites. SBP was diagnosed in a high percentage--35 patients, i.e. 35.4%. It was found more frequently in patients with an alcoholic etiology of cirrhosis who had a history of subfebrile and febrile temperatures and increasing trend of ascites. For the diagnosis the increase of leucocytes in serum and C reactive protein levels may prove useful. Lower values of total protein and albumin in ascites predispose to the development of this infection. Reduction of the number of thrombocytes in the group of patients with SBP indicates the influence of portal hypertension in the etiology of this disease.

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PubMed1999

[Diagnosis and treatment of chronic vaginal candidiasis].

OBJECTIVE OF STUDY: The objective of the study is to determine the optimum diagnostics of vaginal yeast infections and to compare the effects of treatment of these infections by Natamycin with those by Clotrimazol. TYPE OF STUDY: Prospective comparison of both option of treatment of vaginal infections. NAME AND PLACE OF RESEARCH: Obstetrics and gynaecology department, Brno-Bohunice. METHODS: 30 patients treated with hydrophobe Natamycin and 20 patients treated with hydrophyll Clotrimazol formed a sample of 50 women. Regular checks were made on the 10th and 30th day after the beginning of treatment. Diagnosis was performed by means of native microscopy supplemented by an examination for cultivated yeasts in the culture medium "FUNGI-QUICK". At the same time a microscopic examination of slides stained by Gram and Giems was made. RESULTS: A correlation between the evaluated native slide and the culture examined thereafter was 96%. Statistical evaluation of the difference of the rate of success of treatment between the two groups by means of the t-test revealed a value of 0.29, the level of probability was 0.05 at N1 = 0.1795 and N2 = 0.2179. CONCLUSION: Native microscopy is irreplaceable in the diagnosis of vaginal candidosis. No significant differences in the effects of treatment with Natamycin and Clotrimazol were found. On the basis of these results we made some recommendations on the principles of optimum treatment.

Antifungal Agents↗
PubMed1998

[Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in the Czech Republic--the South Moravia Region].

The prevalence of Helicobacter pylori is influenced in a significant way by geographical conditions and depends to a certain extent also on the economic standard of different countries. Some published work provides evidence that Helicobacter pylori infections in eastern European countries are in general more frequent than in western European countries. It cannot be ruled out, however, that in different countries there are regional differences as far as Helicobacter pylori is concerned. In a group of 309 subjects, none of those treated previously to eradicate H.pylori, at least three weeks before blood sampling no preparations of the type of H2 blockers, proton pump blockers or drugs containing bismuth were administered. In these patients serological examinations of H.pylori antibodies were made, using kits of TEST-LINE Brno. The examined subjects were divided into six age groups by decades, starting at the age of 20 years. The general prevalence of H.pylori in the examined group was 58.8%, in the group of 20-year-old ones less than 46%. The highest prevalence was recorded in subjects aged 50-59 years and amounted to 67.3%. The authors compare their own results with findings assembled in the Czech Republic and abroad and draw attention to the necessity of an extensive epidemiological survey of H.pylori prevalence in the Czech Republic. The survey should be done by regions, using the same diagnostic method.

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PubMed1995

[Results of microbiological examination of 12,064 blood cultures in patients with suspected bacteremia].

During 1991 to 1993 12,064 blood cultures from patients with suspected bacteraemia were examined in a newly established Microbiology Department of the Brno-Bohunice Faculty Hospital. A total of 1,790 (14.8%) blood cultures were positive, 746 (6.2%) were contaminated. The incidence of positive blood cultures was 7.1/1,000 patients admitted in 1991, 10.0/1,000 in 1993. From the positive blood cultures 853 different microbes were isolated: 486 gram-negative bacteria (56.9%), 315 gram-positive ones (36.9%), 9 anaerobes (1.1%) and 44 yeasts (5.2%). In 69 cases (3.8%) more than one agent was recovered from one blood culture. The most frequently isolated microbes were gram-negative non-fermenting rods other than P. aeruginosa (15.7%), E. coli (12.1%), S. aureus (11.4%) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (10.1%). From direct inoculation of blood 22.6% blood cultures were positive, and another 55.3% positive after 1-day growth in broth. In 1993 there were 306 patients with positive blood cultures; in those blood for the culture was collected during the first 48 hours after admission: in 76 (32.7%) admitted to medical wards, in 7 (9.6%) to surgical wards. The mortality of patients with positive blood cultures was 23.5%.

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