[Epidemiology and clinical features in diabetic patients with invasive infections treated at the Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases of Iaşi, Romania, between 2008-2010].

Unlabelled: Infections in the diabetic population can be severe and life threatning at least for two reasons: clinical signs are often torpid, masqued by chronical complications of diabetes leading to late recognition and medical adresability and also because of the inability to control established infection due to complex cell-mediated and humoral immunity deffects. The aim of the study was to evaluate the etiology, clinical features and outcome in diabetic patients with invazive disease.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted between January 2008 and December 2010 at The Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases Iaşi among 75 diabetic patients with sepsis of microbiologically confirmed etiology (positive cultures from normally sterile sites) and sepsis with clinically suspected etiology (positive cultures from pus).

[Correlations between the level of bacterial resistance and the rate of clinical efficiency in the therapy of community-acquired respiratory tract infections].

The aim of the study is to evaluate the efficiency of the first-line antibiotic treatment of the community-acquired respiratory tract infections in a population of young adults from an urban setting and to establish the pattern of antibiotic resistance of the germs involved. The bacteria most frequently identified have been: S. pneumoniae, H.

[Antimicrobial resistance profile of E. coli and Klebsiella spp. from urine in the Infectious Diseases Hospital Iaşi].

Unlabelled: The increasing frequency of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) producing Enterobacteriaceae among nosocomial and community-acquired infections is an important problem for both microbiologists and clinicians, because of the difficulty in correctly detecting, reporting and treating such infections.

Results: In the Clinical Hospital of Infectious Diseases Iaşi the most frequent etiological agents of urinary tract infections were: E. coli - 64%, Klebsiella spp.

[Cryptococcus meningitis, five years of experience and literature review].

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to determine the distribution and antifungal susceptibility profile of Cryptococcus spp. isolated from patients in northeast Romania.

Material And Method: Fungi isolated from blood and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cultures were identified by ID32C strips (bioMerieux, France).

[Keratoconus in Albers-Schönberg disease].

A 34-year-old patient presents bilateral keratoconus with osteo-condensing and osteolysis at the level of long bones, oligophrenia, perception deafness, muscular atrophy, anemia, arterial hypertension--typical manifestation of Albers-Schönberg malady. Osteopetrosis is manifested through an important condensing of the cortical and of bones' spongeous traveas, with medullary channel disappearance and particular bone fragility, which made the affection to be named as "marble bones' illness". The affection is caused by a congenital alteration of the mesenchyma, with excessive deposit of calcium at the level of bones, cartilages, tendons, viscera and vessels.