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A new perspective.

Tags: *Attitude of Health Personnel, *Hospitalists, *Internship and Residency, 2009, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Antibiotics – Therapeutic Use, Attitude of Health Personnel, Duggal Abhijit, Emergency Service, Emergency Service – Administration, Hospital/*organization & administration, Hospitalists, Humans, Internship and Residency, Journal of hospital medicine, Pneumonia – Diagnosis, Pneumonia – Drug Therapy, Pneumonia/diagnosis/*drug therapy

Acute diverticulitis: diagnosis and management.

A high index of suspicion is required for early detection of complications, most commonly diverticular abscess and colovesical fistula. Appropriate antibiotic therapy should cover a wide range of potential pathogens.

Tags: 1991, Abscess/diagnosis/etiology/therapy, Acute Disease, Adult, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Colonic/*diagnosis/drug therapy/etiology/surgery, Diagnosis, Differential, Diverticulitis, Female, Fistula/complications, Hospital practice (Office ed.), Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Peller C, Postoperative Complications, Van Ness M

Another perspective: reducing the overtreatment of pneumonia.

Tags: *Diagnostic Errors, 2013, Age Factors, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, Comorbidity, Department of Internal Medicine, File Thomas M Jr, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pneumonia/*diagnosis/*drug therapy

Group A streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis.

Necrotizing fasciitis due to Group A streptococcus has been observed with increasing frequency over the past decade. Appropriate management requires rapid recognition of this life-threatening infection and expeditious antimicrobial therapy as well as…

Helicobacter pylori: current concepts.

Although first described almost a century ago, only in the last 15 years has Helicobacter pylori been characterized and associations with disease states recognized. H pylori has been linked to both gastritis and peptic ulcer disease. There is also…

Tags: *Helicobacter Infections/diagnosis/drug therapy, *Helicobacter pylori/isolation & purification, 1996, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Dies D F, Gastrointestinal Neoplasms/microbiology, Humans, Neff G, Peptic Ulcer/microbiology, The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society, Van Ness M

Infectious complications in diabetic patients.

Life-threatening respiratory pasteurellosis associated with palliative pet care.

Pasteurella multocida is a zoonotic Gram-negative cocco-bacillus often associated with soft tissue infections due to dog and cat bites. Here we report 3 patients who developed life-threatening P. multocida respiratory tract infections after providing…

Nonresponses and treatment failures with conventional empiric regimens in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

Although most patients with suspected CAP respond to empiric therapy,a small number of patients do not respond in the expected fashion. Age and underlying comorbid conditions have a strong influence on the course of illness. Less common causes of…

Tags: 2004, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Bacterial, Community-Acquired Infections/drug therapy/mortality, Diagnostic Errors, Drug Resistance, Humans, Infectious disease clinics of North America, Pneumonia/diagnosis/*drug therapy/mortality, Risk Factors, Tan James S, Treatment Failure

Osteomyelitis.

Tags: *Osteomyelitis/diagnosis/etiology/therapy, 2007, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Debridement, Humans, Severity of Illness Index, The Journal of trauma, Ziran Bruce H

Streptococcus sanguinis brain abscess as complication of subclinical endocarditis: emphasizing the importance of prompt diagnosis.

A 19-year-old male patient was diagnosed with S. sanguinis brain abscess of unknown etiopathology as a complication of subclinical endocarditis. While viridans streptococci are implicated in dental seeding to the heart, S. sanguinis brain abscesses…

Stump pemphigoid.

Stump pemphigoid is a localized variant of bullous pemphigoid characterized by specific clinical, pathological, and immunofluorescent characteristics. The early diagnosis of this entity guides treatment toward this specific immunologically mediated…

Tags: 1996, Amputation Stumps/*pathology, Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use, Biopsy, Brodell R T, Bullous/drug therapy/immunology/*pathology, Cutis, Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Humans, Korman N J, Male, Middle Aged, Niacinamide/therapeutic use, Pemphigoid, Tetracycline/therapeutic use

The role of atypical pathogens: Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae, and Legionella pneumophila in respiratory infection.

Infections caused by M. pneumoniae, C. pneumoniae, and Legionella spp. are important causes of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). In the past decade, considerable new information has come to light concerning these organisms. Despite this, debate…

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