Treatment failure and costs in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin and soft tissue infections: a South Texas Ambulatory Research Network (STARNet) study.

Objective: To measure the incidence of treatment failure and associated costs in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs).

Methods: This was a prospective, observational study in 13 primary care clinics. Primary care providers collected clinical data, wound swabs, and 90-day follow-up information.

Community strategies that improve care and retention along the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV cascade: a review.

Introduction: While biomedical innovations have made it possible to prevent the vertical transmission of HIV from mother to child, poor retention along the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) cascade continues to limit the impact of programmes, especially in low-resourced settings. In many of the regions with the highest burden of HIV and the greatest number of new paediatric cases, the uptake of facility-based care by pregnant women remains low. In such settings, the continuum of care for pregnant women and other women of reproductive age necessarily relies on the community.

[Study of risk of eating disorders in a representative sample of adolescents].

Background And Objectives: The aim of this study was to estimate the percentage of adolescents with risk eating behaviours for developing an eating disorder (ED), analyzing the differences in gender, age and body mass index (BMI).

Subject And Methods: We used a representative sample of 2,142 adolescents (47.2% boys, 52.

Allelic heterogeneity of HLA-B35 subtypes in different populations as assessed by DNA typing.

HLA-B35, a class I antigen differentially associated to several diseases in different ethnic groups, comprises at least eight alleles which differ among them by one to six amino acids. In the present work a rapid DNA typing procedure was used to investigate the distribution of the various HLA-B35 alleles in different populations. The approach is based on a group-specific PCR amplification of a set of closely related HLA-B alleles sharing a Thr in position 45 of the alpha-1 domain.

Chronic active autoimmune hepatitis in children. Strong association with a particular HLA-DR6 (DRB1*1301) haplotype.

The association of HLA antigens and type I or "lupoid" CAH-C was investigated in a population of 52 Argentinian Caucasoid patients. When compared with a population of normal individuals of the same ethnic group (n = 197), a significant increase of HLA-DR6 was observed (68.6% in patients vs 17.

Two-locus involvement in the association of human leukocyte antigen with the extrahepatic manifestations of autoimmune chronic active hepatitis.

We investigated the association of human leukocyte antigen antigens and type 1 chronic active "autoimmune" hepatitis in a population of 65 white Argentinian patients, taking into account the different manifestations of the disease. Standard microlymphocytotoxicity was used for human leukocyte antigen A, B, C, DR and DQ typing. Human leukocyte antigen class 2 alleles were also typed on genomic DNA by means of polymerase chain reaction amplification and hybridization to sequence specific oligonucleotides.