Publications by authors named "Vassiliki Mamali"
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- * The most common forms of the infection were rhinocerebral (51.8%), cutaneous (32.4%), and pulmonary (11.1%), with significant underlying conditions including hematologic malignancies, diabetes mellitus, and other immunodeficiencies, along with some cases in immunocompetent individuals due to trauma.
- * Antifungal treatment typically involved liposomal amphotericin B, and although the mortality rate was high
Introduction/aim: Despite accumulated knowledge, several microbiological aspects of chronic bacterial prostatitis (CBP) remain uncertain. The aim of our study was to determine microbiological characteristics on our CBP population.
Materials: The material of this retrospective study consisted in bacterial isolates from urine and/or prostatic secretions or sperm cultures (total ejaculate) obtained from individuals with prostatitis symptoms and from patients with febrile relapses of CBP visiting our department, from 03/2009 to 03/2015.
We evaluated the Vitek2, Etest, and MIC Test Strip (MTS) methods of tigecycline susceptibility testing with 241 expanded-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant and/or carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates by using dry-form broth microdilution (BMD) as the reference method. The MIC(50/90)s were as follows: BMD, 1/4 μg/ml; Vitek2, 4/≥8 μg/ml; Etest, 2/4 μg/ml; MTS, 0.5/2 μg/ml.
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