Biomedical subjects

G Funke

Publications and source records attributed to G Funke.

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PubMed1993

Isolation of Escherichia fergusonii from four different sites in a patient with pancreatic carcinoma and cholangiosepsis.

Escherichia fergusonii was isolated from a 69-year-old male with pancreatic carcinoma and cholangiosepsis from gallbladder fluid, three blood cultures, feces, and a superficial wound of the abdomen. Biochemical reactions, antimicrobial susceptibility patterns, susceptibility to polyvalent phage 0-1, and rRNA gene restriction analysis suggested that the four strains were of clonal origin. Our data indicate that E. fergusonii possesses a pathogenic potential in humans.

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PubMed1989

Pitfalls in the diagnosis of intussusception.

Unusual sonographic behavior of intussusception is demonstrated in 4 cases. The results of 54 well-documented cases have shown two possible deviations from the normal sonographic pattern of an intussusception. The first was a highly reflective target sign, and the second a loss of regular sonographic structure in a tumor-like mass.

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PubMed1985

[Interference factors in the in vivo diagnosis of the thyroid].

Anamnestic iodine contamination and medication with thyroid drugs were registered in 260 patients of a clinical thyroid care unit and 200 patients of a thyroid doctor's office in the southern German endemic goiter region. We found in the university clinic 54% patients with interfering factors, 30% with iodine contamination and 20% with multiple interferences. In the physician's practice there were 18%, nearly all treated with thyroid hormone. The influence of those factors on thyroidal technetium uptake and the resulting restriction on its diagnostic value is discussed.

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Infections due to Actinomyces neuii (former "CDC coryneform group 1" bacteria).

Sixty-seven patients with infections in which the recently proposed species Actinomyces neuii was involved were observed during a 4 1/2-year period. Microbiological as well as clinical features of the patients are presented. A. neuii does not cause typical actinomycosis and is detected most often in material from abscesses or infected atheromas. One case of a fatal septicemia caused by A. neuii in a non-immunocompromised host was seen. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of A. neuii isolates and results of various treatment regimens are discussed.

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Diversity of coryneforms found in infections following prosthetic joint insertion and open fractures.

In a 5-year period, 73 coryneform isolates from prosthetic joint and open fracture infections in 60 patients treated in a hospital specialized in orthopedic surgery were speciated. The most frequent species were Corynebacterium amycolatum, Corynebacterium striatum, Corynebacterium diphtheriae biotype mitis, and Corynebacterium jeikeium. At least 14 isolates were deemed clinically significant as sole agents of infection.

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Emergence of related nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biotype mitis strains in Western Europe.

We report on 17 isolates of Corynebacterium diphtheriae biotype mitis with related ribotypes from Switzerland, Germany, and France. Isolates came from skin and subcutaneous infections of injecting drug users, homeless persons, prisoners, and elderly orthopedic patients with joint prostheses or primary joint infections. Such isolates had only been observed in Switzerland.

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