Lower carnitine plasma values from malnutrition cancer patients.

Introduction: Understanding the consequences of cancer for energy metabolism is required in order to define strategies that both prevent and treat malnutrition. Carnitine is essential for lipid energy metabolism. The objective of this study was to assess presurgical plasma carnitine levels in cancer patients and their association with dietary intake, anthropometry, bioelectrical impedance, indirect calorimetry, plasma amino acid levels, and urinary carnitine and nitrogen values.

Staphylococcus aureus prophylaxis in hemodialysis patients using central venous catheter: effect of mupirocin ointment.

Central venous catheterization is a common technique to establish rapid and temporary access for hemodialysis. However, it is a known risk factor for Staphylococcus aureus infection and bacteremia. Mupirocin is a topical antibiotic with high in vitro anti-staphylococcal activity.

[Sensitivity pattern of 117 clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from 12 hospitals].

Objective: To evaluate the antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of oxacillin susceptible (OSSA) and resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) isolates to other antimicrobial agents that can be used for the treatment of staphylococcal infections.

Material And Method: We evaluated 117 clinical S. aureus isolates from several São Paulo hospitals.

[In vitro susceptibility testing of 446 clinical isolates of gram-positive bacteria to new quinolones, carbapenems and cephalosporins].

Objective: To assess the in vitro susceptibility of gram-positive bacteria isolated in the São Paulo Hospital against five fluoroquinolones, three carbapenems and three cephalosporins.

Materials And Method: Susceptibility was tested in 77 isolates of streptococci, 38 enterococci, 25 S. aureus and 91 S.