Enteric fever imported to the Czech Republic: epidemiology, clinical characteristics and antimicrobial susceptibility.

The aim of this study was to describe epidemiological and clinical characteristics of imported enteric fever in Czech travellers and to determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of isolated strains. Retrospective descriptive study included adult patients treated with enteric fever at Hospital Na Bulovce during January 2004-December 2012. A case of typhoid or paratyphoid fever was defined as isolation of Salmonella Typhi or Paratyphi from blood or stool.

[The demonstration of tuberculosis using molecular genetic methods polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and Amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct (AMTD) test].

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a communicable disease, in most instances with a chronic course. The aetiological agent is Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Its demonstration is based on microscopic investigations and cultures.

Practical experience with patients infected or colonized with a methicillin - resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

Purpose: To present the range of diseases produced by a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). To assess the efficacy of procedures likely to cure MRSA infections and possibly to eradicate colonization.

Methods: Clinical trial studying the course of MRSA infections or colonization of in-patients, treated at the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Teaching Hospital Na Bulovce, Prague, between 1 January 2004 and 31 August 2005.

An unusual course of invasive infection due to nontoxinogenic strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

The authors report a case of complicated sepsis caused by nontoxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae biotype gravis in a young immunocompetent female with no predisposing factors. She acquired the infection from her boyfriend, an asymptomatic carrier of nontoxigenic strain. The primary site of infection and subsequent sepsis was not identified.

[Prevalence of ESBL-positive strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae in the Czech Republic and their molecular biology analysis].

Background: One of the problems of contemporary medicine is an increasing number of bacterial strains with hazardous phenotypes of resistance. The feared bacterial pathogens include Klebsiella pneumoniae strains producing AmpA extended-spectrum beta-lactamases. The study focused on the molecular biological characteristics of ESBL-positive strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae collected in the Czech Republic.

Listerial endocarditis in a penicillin-allergic woman successfully treated with a combination of 4 drugs.

A 69-y-old woman with bioprosthetic endocarditis due to Listeria monocytogenes developed an allergic reaction after beginning ampicillin treatment. She was cured with the combination of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, rifampicin and teicoplanin. No immune deficiency was found in the patient.