Risk factors associated with bacteremia in burn children admitted to a specialized pediatric intensive care unit: A case-control study.

Introduction: Infections due to bacteremia in burn patients are a common cause of complications and an extended length of stay. Knowing causative microorganisms and identifying associated risk factors allow to reduce infectious complications, morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditure. This study assesses the extent of the association between risk factors and bacteremia in burn patients and identifies the most common microorganisms found in blood cultures.

Health Information Systems: evaluation and performance of a Help Desk.

Unlabelled: A Help Desk (HD) is crucial in a computerized hospital.

Objective: to describe the performance of a HD.

Design: retrospective cohort study.

Primary cutaneous mucormycosis produced by the new species Apophysomyces mexicanus.

A case of fungal necrotizing fasciitis that appeared in an immunocompetent Mexican woman after a car accident is described. The patient did not respond to antifungal treatment and died 4 days later. The fungus was molecularly identified as a new species of Apophysomyces, namely, Apophysomyces mexicanus.

Variations in creatine kinase activity and reactive oxygen species levels are involved in capacitation of bovine spermatozoa.

The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is associated with some factors such as oxidative substrate sources, mitochondrial function and NAD(P)H oxidase activity. In bovine spermatozoa, heparin capacitation produces a respiratory burst sensitive to diphenyleneiodonium (DPI). Creatine kinase (CK) is related to extramitochondrial ATP disponibility.