Juvenile Dermatomyositis Without Skin Lesions in an Antinuclear Matrix Protein 2 Antibody Seropositive Pediatric Case.

We report a 5-year-old boy who presented with progressive weakness in 4 limbs and gait disorders over 7 months. No skin rash was observed on admission. A symmetrical proximodistal weakness was found.

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Antibiotics are one of the greatest advances in modern medicine. Antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious threats to global health, aggravating the prognosis of immunocompromised patients, especially burn patients. Our objective was to study the consumption of antibiotics of critical importance according to the WHO and the correlation between antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas æruginosa and the consumption of these antibiotics.

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Acinetobacter baumannii is a feared pathogen in the burn center due to its opportunistic nature and its multidrug resistance. Our purpose was to study the incidence density of Acinetobacter baumannii colonization and infection and to determine the antibiotic susceptibility of the strains isolated in patients hospitalized in the Trauma and Burn Center Burn Unit in Tunisia. Our retrospective study included 1517 non-repetitive strains of Acinetobacter baumannii, between January 2012 and September 2020, with an average rate of 12.

Multidrug resistant bacteremia in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients.

Background: Bacteremia become fearsome in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients with the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains.

Aim: Our purpose was to investigate the prevalence of MDR bacteremia in HSCT recipients at the Tunisian National Bone Marrow Transplant Center, associated factors and attributable mortality rate.

Methods: Our retrospective study (January 2010-December 2017) included all MDR bacteremia in the Hematology department.

Molecular profile of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in burn patients.

Background: Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) present a threat to public health worldwide.

Aim: To study their prevalence at the Trauma and Burn Center's Burn Unit and investigate their molecular characteristics and their associated antibiotics resistance patterns.

Methods: This is a retrospective study conducted at the Trauma and Burn Center's laboratory between july 2017 and december 2018.