Unsolicited consultation by infectious diseases specialist improves outcomes in patients with bloodstream infection: A prospective cohort study.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of an intervention based on unsolicited consultations by an infectious diseases specialist (IDS) on the adequacy of antimicrobial treatment and mortality in patients with BSI.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was performed in a 410-bed hospital. An intervention based on unsolicited consultation by an IDS for patients with BSI was performed only on days when an IDS was available.

[Diagnosis of vaginitis-vaginosis by hibridization with DNA strands].

Background: Vaginal infections lie among the most common causes women ask for medical advice. In order of frequency bacterial vaginosis, vulvovaginal candidiasis, and trichomoniasis are responsible for 90% of vaginitis/vaginosis.

Objective: To evaluate a DNA hybridization test for simultaneous molecular detection of Gardnerella vaginalis, Candida species and Trichomonas vaginalis, as an alternative to conventional microbiological methods.

[Bacterial vaginosis].

Bacterial vaginosis is a widely spread health problem with multiple connotations. It has been the subject of many studies and work during decades and it still remains a polemic entity, with contradictory finding. The polymicrobian etiology, unsolved epidemiology, obstetrico-gynecological complications and high recurrence rate following treatment, make this infection a target for researchers.

Evaluation of the BDProbeTec ET system as screening tool in the direct detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in respiratory specimens.

We evaluated the BDProbeTec ET System (Becton Dickinson) for the routine detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) in respiratory specimens and pleural fluids, comparing with microscopy (Ziehl Neelsen stain, ZN) and culture in liquid (BACTEC MGIT 960, MGIT) and solid (Löwenstein Jensen, LJ) media. Five hundred and two specimens, collected from 266 patients, of which 257 with suspected tuberculosis and 9 receiving anti-tuberculosis treatment, were investigated. Thirty-nine specimens were positive by any method, including false positives.