Subacute Meningitis: A Rare Presentation of Brucellosis.

A young male adult presented with a two-week-long history of myoarthralgia, vomiting, febrile sensation, holocranial headache with photophobia, neck stiffness, anorexia, and weight loss. He worked as a butcher in a local slaughterhouse, and two of his coworkers had recently been diagnosed with brucellosis. On his fourth visit to the Emergency Department (ED), fever was observed for the first time.

Motivational strategies used by health care professionals in stroke survivors in rehabilitation: a scoping review of experimental studies.

Introduction: Cognitive and motor impairments are common among stroke survivors. Physical therapy is often used to improve the functional capacity of stroke survivors. However, limited adherence to rehabilitation programs is a challenge.

Pulmonary Mucormycosis in a Poorly Controlled Diabetic Patient.

Mucormycosis is a severe fungal infection that occurs mainly in immunocompromised patients. It is characterized by several syndromes with rhino-orbito-cerebral and pulmonary involvement. We report the case of a 49-year-old patient admitted for diabetic ketoacidosis and Influenza B pneumonia nonresponsive to treatment, which was later diagnosed with pulmonary mucormycosis.

Circumstances of the ambulatory prescription of quinolones in Urology and opportunities for intervention.

Introduction And Objectives: Antimicrobial stewardship programmes (AMSP) seldom focus on ambulatory prescribing. Our AMSP primarily supervises in-hospital prescribing, but as we aim to include the ambulatory setting, we sought opportunities for intervention on ambulatory quinolone prescription.

Materials And Methods: We selected the prescriptions made by urologists during 2018 for analysis, and manually checked them for adequacy.