Investigation of 29 Antimicrobial Compounds in Soil Using Newly Developed UHPLC-MS/MS Method.

While the prudent and reasonable use of veterinary antimicrobial agents in food-producing animals is necessary, researchers over the decades have shown that these antimicrobial agents can spread into the environment through livestock manure and wastewater. The analysis of the occurrence of antimicrobial compounds in soil samples is of a great importance to determine potential impacts on human and animal health and the environment. In this study, an affordable, rugged and simple analytical method has been developed for the determination of twenty-nine antimicrobial compounds from five different classes (tetracyclines, fluoro(quinolones), macrolides, sulfonamides and diaminopirimidines).

Antithrombin as a marker of severe acute hepatitis B.

Background: Acute hepatitis B (AHB) can run a severe course, which sometimes leads to a fulminant disease with acute liver failure (ALF). Pro-coagulation factors are well-established markers of AHB severity, but less is known about the levels of anti-coagulation parameters in AHB.

Methods: In this study, we demonstrate that antithrombin (AT) plasma levels were associated with AHB severity in 161 patients.

[Severe eosinophilia in a patient with clostridium colitis and gastric cancer].

A case of a 77-year-old male repeatedly hospitalized with the diagnosis of Clostridium difficile colitis associated with eosinophilia is presented. The percentage and number of eosinophils achieved maximal values (54 %, 5.4 times 1.

[Viral hepatitis B in a patient with follicular lymphoma treated with biological therapy].

Reactivation, recurrence or acute infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) represent severe complications of biological therapy. Reported is a case of a 58-year-old female treated in the past with cytostatics and rituximab for follicular lymphoma, in whom HBV infection was detected during a follow-up of the contacts of her partner diagnosed with acute viral hepatitis B. At the beginning, the patient had a very high serum level of HBV DNA (4.

[A case of acute hepatitis E acquired in the Czech Republic].

We report a case of 54-year-old female, who was diagnosed with acute viral hepatitis E with uncomplicated anicteric course of the infection. The patient did not have a specific travel history to endemic areas and the infection has been acquired in the Czech Republic. The epidemiologic history was remarkable only because she consumed undercooked pork meat.