Rapid antigen test for adenovirus in children: Age and onset of symptoms are important.

Introduction: Respiratory infection is the most common human adenovirus (HAdV) disease accounting for 7-8% of viral respiratory diseases in children less than 5 years. Differentiation of bacterial infections and viral infections is a common clinical problem.

Material And Methods: One hundred oropharyngeal swabs obtained from October 2019 to November 2020 from patients attending the paediatric emergency room with suspicion of upper respiratory tract infection and negative results in influenza and RSV tests were included.

Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in Spanish healthcare workers.

Introduction: Frontline health care workers (HCW) have higher risk than the general population to become infected by SARS.CoV.2, so they were a priority group for Covid-19 vaccine administration.

Staphylococcus aureus Community-acquired Pneumonia in Children After 13-Valent Pneumococcal Vaccination (2008-2018): Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes.

Background: The epidemiology of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) has changed, influenced by sociosanitary conditions and vaccination status. We aimed to analyze the recent epidemiology of bacterial CAP in hospitalized children in a setting with high pneumococcal vaccination coverage and to describe the clinical characteristics of pediatric Staphylococcus aureus CAP.

Methods: Children <17 years old hospitalized from 2008 to 2018 with bacterial CAP in 5 tertiary hospitals in Spain were included.

Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in Spanish healthcare workers.

Introduction: Frontline health care workers (HCW) have higher risk than the general population to become infected by SARS.CoV.2, so they were a priority group for Covid-19 vaccine administration.

Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in Spanish healthcare workers.

Introduction: Frontline health care workers (HCW) have higher risk than the general population to become infected by SARS.CoV.2, so they were a priority group for Covid-19 vaccine administration.

Outcome of Severe Bacterial Pneumonia in the Era of Pneumococcal Vaccination.

After the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) caused by has decreased whereas and could be increasing. These bacteria have been associated with high rates of complications. (1) To describe the characteristics of pediatric bacterial CAP requiring hospitalization.

Epidemiology of bloodstream Candida species in a Spanish tertiary care hospital as a guide for implementation of T2MR (T2CANDIDA®) for rapid diagnosis of candidemia.

Unlabelled: The aim of this work was to study the epidemiology of candidemia in our hospital in order to determine whether the T2MR system might be a useful tool for early diagnosis of candidemia in selected units. We perform a retrospective review of all candidemia episodes registered in the last 12 years in selected units of our hospital in adult and pediatric patients. Candida species and antifungal susceptibility patterns were registered.

Isolation of Candida in the blood cultures of patients admitted to the Emergency Room in a tertiary care hospital.

Background: In Spain, data of candidemia are limited to surveys conducted in specific areas or tertiary care centers. Also, in recent years, attention has shifted toward episodes of candidemia in non-ICU wards.

Aims: We reviewed the cases of Candida isolates recovered from the blood of patients admitted to the Emergency Room (ER) in our tertiary care hospital.

The challenge of molecular diagnosis of bloodstream infections.

Early detection and identification of pathogens in bloodstream infections (BSI) is important to initiate or adjust antibiotic therapy as soon as possible. The current gold standard for diagnostic of BSI infection is the blood culture, that has a turnaround time of one to few days. Molecular tests performed directly in blood samples have promised faster diagnostics, with response times of a few hours, but their implementation into the clinical routine has been hampered by critical technical and procedural problems.

MALDI-TOF MS for rapid diagnosis of Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens, an unusual causative agent of bacteraemia in humans. Two case reports and literature review.

Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens is a gram-negative anaerobic spiral rod which is part of the normal flora of dogs and cats and can produce bacteraemia and diarrhoea in humans. In this report we describe two cases of bacteraemia caused by A. succiniciproducens which was successfully identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS).

Isolation of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa from blood cultures in a tertiary care hospital.

Rhodotorula species have traditionally been considered as one of common non-virulent environmental inhabitant. They have emerged as an opportunistic pathogen, particularly in immunocompromised hosts and most infections have been associated with intravenous catheters in these patients. We review the isolates in blood cultures of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa in our Hospital.

Community-Onset Bloodstream and Other Infections, Caused by Carbapenemase-Producing : Epidemiological, Microbiological, and Clinical Features.

 Because most infections caused by carbapenemase-producing (CPE) begin during hospitalization, there are limited data about community-onset (CO) infections caused by CPE. Our aim is to describe the frequency of CO infections caused by CPE as well as the clinical features of CO bloodstream infections (CO-BSIs).  This study includes retrospective case series of CO infections caused by CPE in a tertiary hospital from January 2010 to July 2014.