Antimicrobial susceptibility profile of clinically relevant Bacteroides, Phocaeicola, Parabacteroides and Prevotella species, isolated by eight laboratories in the Netherlands.

Objectives: Recently, reports on antimicrobial-resistant Bacteroides and Prevotella isolates have increased in the Netherlands. This urged the need for a surveillance study on the antimicrobial susceptibility profile of Bacteroides, Phocaeicola, Parabacteroides and Prevotella isolates consecutively isolated from human clinical specimens at eight different Dutch laboratories.

Methods: Each laboratory collected 20-25 Bacteroides (including Phocaeicola and Parabacteroides) and 10-15 Prevotella isolates for 3 months.

Risk factors for acute toxoplasmosis in the Netherlands.

Toxoplasmosis caused by the protozoan parasite occurs worldwide. Infections range from asymptomatic to life-threatening. infection is acquired either via bradyzoites in meat or via oocysts in the environment, but the relative importance of these path ways and the different sources remains unclear.

Treatment and Outcome of Culture-Confirmed Disease.

Background: is a nontuberculous mycobacterium that causes skin and soft tissue infections. Treatment consists of multiple antibiotics, sometimes combined with surgical debridement. There is little evidence for the choice of antibiotics, the duration of treatment, and the role of susceptibility testing.

[Latent tuberculosis infection after an internship in India].

Background: On returning from a period in a country where tuberculosis is endemic, e.g. a medical internship abroad, screening for tuberculosis takes place.