Fluvoxamine Treatment of Patients with Symptomatic COVID-19 in a Community Treatment Center: A Preliminary Result of Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate whether fluvoxamine reduces clinical deterioration in adult patients with mild to moderate coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and to identify risk factors for clinical deterioration in patients admitted to a community treatment center (CTC).

Materials And Methods: A randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in a CTC, in Seoul, Korea from January 15, 2021, to February 19, 2021. Symptomatic adult patients with positive results of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 real time-polymerase chain reaction within 3 days of randomization were assigned at random to receive 100 mg of fluvoxamine or placebo twice daily for 10 days.

POCT Detection of 14 Respiratory Viruses Using Multiplex RT-PCR.

Over the past 6 years, acute respiratory infections have constituted an average of more than 70,000 cases in South Korea. It results in a high mortality rate in infants and the elderly with weak immunity. There are several types of respiratory viruses that invade the human respiratory tract and cause infectious disease.

Antagonistic Effect of Colistin on Vancomycin Activity against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in and Studies.

As concerns arise that the vancomycin MIC of methicillin-resistant (MRSA) could be increased by concurrent colistin administration, we evaluated the effect of colistin on vancomycin efficacy against MRSA via and studies. Among MRSA blood isolates collected in a tertiary-care hospital, we selected representative strains from community-associated MRSA strains (CA-MRSA; ST72-MRSA-SCC IV) and hospital-acquired MRSA strains (HA-MRSA; ST5-MRSA-SCC II). USA CA-MRSA (USA300), HA-MRSA (USA100), N315 (New York/Japan clone), and a MRSA standard strain (ATCC 43300) were used for comparison.

Sternoclavicular septic arthritis caused by : excellent results from medical treatment and limited surgery.

Aggressive surgery such as en bloc joint resection is favored for treating uncommon sternoclavicular (SC) septic arthritis, based on expert opinion and small case series. We analyzed the clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of patients with SC septic arthritis treated medically or with limited surgery. All adult patients with this septic arthritis at the Asan Medical Center between September 2009 and December 2016 were reviewed.

[A case of erythromycin-resistant Ureaplasma urealyticum meningitis in a premature infant].

Ureaplasma urealyticum causes infection or colonization of female genital tracts associated with preterm delivery and infertility and the infection of the bloodstream, respiratory tract, and central nervous system in infants, especially in prematures. We report the first case of U. urealyticum meningitis in a premature infant in Korea.