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.

Molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus in south-eastern Romania: evidence of G1-G3 and G6-G10 complexes in humans.

Unlabelled: Clin Microbiol Infect

Abstract: Echinococcus granulosus is the aetiological agent of cystic echinococcosis (CE), which is a public health problem in many eastern European countries, particularly in Romania, where the infection causes a high number of human and animal cases. To shed light on the transmission patterns of the parasite, we performed a genotyping analysis on 60 cyst samples obtained from patients who live in south-eastern Romania and who underwent surgery for liver or lung CE. DNA was extracted from the endocysts or the cyst fluids, and fragments of cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 mitochondrial genes (cox1 and nd1, respectively) were amplified by PCR and sequenced.

[Disability in pulmonary tuberculosis in the city of Bucharest].

The authors analyse the invalidity (new retreated cases) for pulmonary tuberculosis, in a period of 9 years (1986-1994), comparing the time before and after the December 1989 Revolution, by making a screening in 2 districts of Bucharest which, by number of population and incidence of tuberculosis, are representative for Bucharest. In the analyzed time, in Romania was noticed a three times increase of tuberculosis invalidity, especially due to pulmonary tuberculosis. In the two districts of Bucharest, in the 1991-1994 period compared to the 1986-1990 period, an increase in tuberculosis invalidity was noticed in men and women, the most affected age group being the one with the greatest work involvement (age 41 to 50).