Etiologic agents and outcome determinants of community-acquired pneumonia in urban children: a hospital-based study.

Etiologic clues and prognostic indicators of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) were sought in a 30-month study of under-5 admissions for acute lower respiratory infections (ALRIs). Investigative tools included blood culture, hemogram, immunofluorescence and serology. Associations of variables were tested using standard statistical tools.

E-test method of antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae for routine diagnostic service.

The minimising inhibitory concentrations of four antimicrobial agents for 64 clinical isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae including 26 penicillinase producing strains (PPNG) as determined by E test, a recently developed method for sensitivity testing, were compared with those of agar dilution method using isosensitest (IST) agar. The medium was supplemented with either 5% lysed horse blood alone or with both lysed horse blood and 1% vitox defined supplement. The E test MICs compared closely with those obtained by agar dilution with essential agreements within +/- 1 log2 dilution being over 90% with all test antibiotics on medium that did not contain vitox, and between 71 and 93% on medium containing vitox.

Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) due to trichomonas vaginalis in Ibadan.

Two hundred and sixty two male patients attending the Special Treatment Clinic (STC) of the University College Hospital, Ibadan between July and December 1989, were examined for Trichomonas vaginalis as a cause of non-gonococcal urethritis using both microscopic and culture methods. Thirteen of the 262 male patients were the sexual partners of trichomonas vaginalis infected women. While 47(17.

Epidemiology of respiratory syncytial virus infection among paediatric patients in Hong Kong: seasonality and disease impact.

In a 5-year retrospective survey of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections among hospitalized children, 1340 cases were identified of which, 98.4% were children < 5 years old with a male:female ratio of 1.5: 1.

Haemophilus aphrophilus meningitis complicated by hydrocephalus in an immunocompetent adult.

A case of meningitis due to an unusual organism, Haemophilus aphrophilus in an adult is described. In spite of rapid clearance of the organism from the cerebrospinal fluid with intravenous cefotaxime, fever persisted over 8 days of therapy and infection was complicated by hydrocephalus. H.