Infecting a Prosthetic Knee Joint: A New Case of an Unusual Disease.

Primary meningococcal meningitis is an infrequent but known disease. However, the infection of a prosthetic joint with is rare. We hereby describe the second case of an arthroplasty infected with that responded favourably to prosthesis retention with surgical debridement, in combination with antibiotics treatment.

[Clinical practice guidelines from the Andalusian Society of Infectious Diseases (SAEI) for the treatment of tuberculosis].

The therapeutic scheme for initial pulmonary tuberculosis recommended by the SAEI is as follows: Initial phase, isoniazid, rifampin and pyrazinamide given daily for 2 months. In HIV(+) patients and immigrants from areas with a rate of primary resistance to isoniazid > 4%, ethambutol should be added until susceptibility studies are available. Second phase (continuation phase): rifampin and isoniazid, given daily or intermittently for 4 months in the general population.

Epidemiological, clinical, and prognostic differences between the diseases caused by Mycobacterium kansasii and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus: a multicenter study.

A multicenter, comparative study was performed to determine the epidemiological, clinical, and prognostic differences between the diseases caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium kansasii in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients. From 1 January 1995 through 31 December 1999, 25 HIV-infected patients received diagnoses of M. kansasii infection, and another 75 were selected as control subjects from among patients who had M.