Analysis of occurence of Staphylococcus aureus strains and their resistance to antibiotics in-patients hospitalized at the National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases in the years 2001-2004.

Purpose Of The Study: The authors analysed the incidence of S. aureus strains and their resistance to antibiotics in in-patients in order to obtain information for the management of an antibiotic policy, as well as for an emprical treatment of staphylococcal infections.

Material And Methods: The authors determined the sensitivity of S.

[Epidemiologic and microbiological aspects of mycobacteriosis in Slovakia--Mycobacterium szulgai].

The first case of mycobacteriosis caused by M. szulgai in the territory of Czechoslovakia was discovered in the year 1979 in southern Slovakia and was published in our and foreign literature in the year 1981. The purpose of this investigation is to describe the epidemiological situation of the diseases caused by M.

[Epidemiologic and microbiologic aspects of mycobacteriosis in Slovakia--M. xenopi].

The first mycobacterioses caused by M. xenopi in Slovakia were discovered in the year 1979. Gradually they became the most often occurring mycobacterioses caused by facultative pathogenic mycobacteria.

[Epidemiologic and microbiologic aspects of mycobacteriosis in Slovakia. M. fortuitum].

The purpose of this paper is to confront the knowledge about the epidemiology of this disease abroad with information obtained in Slovakia. The methodology of this paper is based upon surveillance of tuberculosis as applied on mycobacterioses. Pulmonary infections caused by M.

[Epidemiologic and microbiologic aspects of mycobacteriosis in Slovakia].

Mycobacterioses are diseases caused by mycobacteria other than those that induce the classical tuberculosis: M. tbc (previously to as "human" type) and M. bovis (previously to as "bovine" type of mycobacteria).