[Multicenter study on the monitoring of in vitro susceptibility to tigeeyeline in Santiago, Chile].

The objective of this multicenter study was to determine tigecycline susceptibility rates, measured by agar diffusion, in nine hospitals in Santiago and to compare these rates with other antimicrobials. Each center studied 20 strains per month. All intermediate and fully resistant strains as well as 10% of susceptibile strains were also studied by the broth microdilution method.

[Intravenous antimicrobial use among different hospital in Chile during 2005].

Intravenous antimicrobial consumption has not been evaluated previously in Chile. In order to know this consumption (in DDD per 100 bed days), associated factors and antimicrobial control systems across the country, a questionnaire was sent to evaluate these features during 2005. A total of 29 public hospitals and private clinics answered this poll, 20 belonging to the public health system (69%).

[Cryptococcus neoformans arthritis in elderly adult: case report and review].

Cryptococcal infection is not frequent in immunocompetent patients. The most commonly involved sites are the lungs and the central nervous system. Cryptococcal osteomyelitis occurs in 5-10% of patients with disseminated cryptococcosis with few reports of cryptococcal arthritis in elderly adults.