Combined prophylactic effect of ultraclean air and cefuroxime for reducing infection in prosthetic surgery.

One hundred seventy-four elective operations for hip and knee prostheses were undertaken in conditions of ultra-clean air and antibiotic prophylaxis (with cefuroxime), as the recent Medical Research Council multicenter study suggested that this combination was most likely to give the lowest infection rate. No acute infections of a prosthesis occurred (early infection rate less than 0.6%), while the rate was 2.

Epidemiology of diarrhoea caused by enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens.

Enterotoxigenic strains of Clostridium perfringens have recently been implicated in some cases of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. We present here the results of an epidemiological study of this disease. Five cases of diarrhoea caused by C.

Diarrhoea due to enterotoxigenic Clostridium perfringens: clinical features and management of a cluster of ten cases.

Clostridium perfringens has recently been shown to be associated with antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. We describe here the clinical features and management of an outbreak of diarrhoea in a Geriatric Unit. Ten cases were due to enterotoxigenic C.