Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing for Species Isolated from Clinical Samples in Romania.

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most important public health issues. Besides classical multidrug resistance species associated with medical care involved in superficial or invasive infections, there are strains less commonly associated with hospital or outpatient setting's infections. Non-diphtheria spp.

New Options in the Management of Cystic Echinococcosis - A Single Centre Experience Using Minimally Invasive Techniques.

Objective: The aim of this study is to verify if the experience on 4 years in using minimally invasive techniques in the treatment of CE could match regarding the indications and results with the major studies on topic.

Method: During 03.2014 - 03.

Prospective Comparison of Two Brands of Tuberculin Skin Tests and Quantiferon-TB Gold in-tube Assay Performances for Tuberculosis Infection in Hospitalized Children.

Objective: The study compared two brands of tuberculin skin tests (TST): PPD RT 23, (SSI, Denmark) and PPD IC 65, (Cantacuzino Institute, Romania), 2 TU/ 0.1 ml each, with an interferon gamma release assay [IGRA], Quantiferon-TB Gold (QFT).

Material And Methods: QFT was performed on whole blood samples, before TSTs, on 60 children with tuberculosis (TB), BCG vaccinated, admitted in a paediatric pneumophtisiology hospital.

The establishment of resistance phenotypes for bacteria isolated from outpatients in urine cultures.

From 1911 outpatients, who addressed a Timişoara private clinical laboratory, from January to December 2005, we collected 1,889 urine cultures, 431 being positive. Bacteria identification was generally done using morphological, cultural, biochemical characters and pathogenicity tests. Sensitivity testing to antimicrobial medical drugs was done by using the classical diffusion Kirby-Bauer method and the automatic analyzer Osiris, also.

Case-control study to evaluate the link between immunosuppression and Candida spp. infection.

Candidiasis is one of the fungal infections with the highest incidence in the immunosuppressed host. The evolution of infection and the increase of antifungal medical drugs resistance could both contribute to the mortality attributable to Candida infection in the immunosuppressed host. Even though the data from international studies are well known, few studies have been published in Romania on this subject.